One of the cool CSS techniques I used a few places in Sweeva was CSS gradients … That’s right, gradients WITHOUT the use of images, it’s pretty cool!
So cool in fact I made a site dedicated to it, it’s pretty easy to use and spits out the CSS you’ll need for the gradient background: http://css-gradient.com/ [...]

Today Jon Olson, Tim Linden and I launched Sweeva.com and boy have we had a busy day (well, month actually).
I’m writing this post on 2 hours sleep in the past 40 hours so it’s a bit short   Anyways, less than 7 hours in we’re at 1300 members which isn’t too shabby.
If you haven’t [...]

Well, I’ve gotten a bit lazy when it comes to blog posts — if any of you are bloggers, I’ve hit the stage where I don’t even want to visit my blog let alone write a blog post. Hopefully that burnout will dissipate soon.
What have I been up to? Well, for one I created this [...]

My last post didn’t seem to be that big of a hit — maybe that’s because you all could care less about mod_rewrite.
What would you like me to write an informative post on? If you have any ideas for some sort of script like the overlay box and banner creator, let me know and I [...]

So, since everyone seems to like the banner creator, I’ve done some more work on it.
The biggest new feature is the addition of multiple background images.
Here are a couple examples:

You can check it out here: http://trkr.me/5f
As always, let me know what you think!

I’ve made some updates to the banner creator I posted about yesterday. Some changes include:

You can now pick custom background colors
Same goes for font color
Better alignment
Text is now wrapped, so you can enter longer text and it will force it to a new line.

You can access it here: http://trkr.me/5f

Want to make a banner like this one?

It’s easy, just use this page: http://austinhallock.com/createbanner.php
As always, let me know what you think!

How to succeed in building a successful website…The most important part is the site design.
Well, that’s just my opinion — based on past experiences (and the reason Mike and I have launched successful sites). And this is coming from a programmer (though I dabble in design).
I’m going to be starting a series of blog posts [...]

Want your readers/members to have the ability to retweet some of your content? It’s a great way to spread the word and has worked wonders for ThumbVu.
I’ve made it as EASY as possible for you to do this.
All you have to do is put the below code where you want the Tweet This box to [...]