Category Archives: Web

CSS preprocessing

I always thought that CSS lacks in expressiveness which is far below the one of XPath. For example you can’t select elements based on their child elements. How nice would it be if you could format anker tags if and … Continue reading

Color Wizard

Tired of bright red, green or blue? Then try out the Color Wizard on colorsontheweb.com. Given one color the tool gives you 3 variations (hue, saturation and tint&shade) as much as 6 corresponding colors (monochromatic, analogous, triadic, tetradic, complimentary and … Continue reading

WordPress Web Service

You are an enthusiastic WordPress user? You want to implement a Flash based WordPress front end / theme? You want to use WordPress as a back end for you software? My new WordPress Web Service plugin is your solution! WPWS … Continue reading

bkahlert.com 2.0

HTML5 Boilerplate Starkers WordPress Theme HTML 5 Boilerplate WordPress Theme WordPress Child Theme with minimal PHP code (main script/css includes) screenshots of bkahlert.com 1.0

generic ISOCUBE

Zachary Johnson and Paul Hayes showed some really nice examples of the CSS 2D transformation capabilites (isocube, 3D isocube using 2D CSS). What I missed was the math behind it. Both (and every other isocube I could find on the … Continue reading

Vertical Centering With CSS

Every tried to use vertical-align on block elements and wondered why it doesn’t work. Read this great article to find out how to center vertically.

Osama Bin Laden killed live on a news broadcast! watch the video: …

Nice try. A worm has started to spread over Facebook promising the user a video where the killed Osama Bin Laden can be seen. The link is: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Osama-Bin-Laden-Killed-Live-on-Video/201198676585608?sk=app_190322544333196&71029 On the corresponding Facebook profile you are asked to copy a javascript … Continue reading

Why I don’t consider bit.ly & co a good idea

Ever heard of bit.ly or TinyURL.com? In short those services offer the shortening of (long) URLs so the link becomes easier to read and to publish, e.g. on Twitter. I do not deny that advantage whereas I criticize that none of … Continue reading