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CSS3 PIE: A Web Designers New Best Friend

Leon Poole — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:23:41 +0000

CSS3 is a very exciting stage for anyone in the web design industry as it adds some new crazy-powerful styling features to your web design toolkit. In a nut shell, CSS3 PIE makes properties such as border-radius, box-shadow, border-image, multiple background images, linear-gradient as background image display correctly in Internet Explorer web browsers.

PIE stands for Progressive Internet Explorer. It is an IE attached behavior ... Read more » No related posts.

Adding a Facebook “Like” Button to your WordPress Website

Leon Poole — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:50:48 +0000

Facebook has released their new “Like Button” (or “Recommend Button” if you prefer) that you can easily add your WordPress posts and pages. Once added, your visitors are able to “Like” your post or page which is then updated into their Recent Activity stream on Facebook – I’m not aware of any plugin’s that do this yet, however it’s a really simple procedure ... Read more » No related posts.

Logorama – A Short Film Made From Logo’s

Leon Poole — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:32:44 +0000

It’s Friday and what better way to end the week than with a funny, outstanding, world-class short film animation titled Logorama, directed by French animation collective H5 (François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy & Ludovic Houplain)

Set in California, Logorama makes Logo’s come to life and features some spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, wild animals rampaging through the city and even more! The ... Read more » No related posts.

How to remove the “Page Title” from your WordPress Homepage

Leon Poole — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:20:11 +0000

A common question people ask when designing a WordPress theme is “How to remove/hide the “Page Title” on my homepage?”. This is often asked in situations where a static page is being used for the Home Page. The following is three easy methods you can use to solve this problem:

1) Hide the Page Title with CSS

This is the most common method I see ... Read more » Related posts:

8 Bit Pixels Invasion of New York City

Leon Poole — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:48:52 +0000

“Pixels”, a short film that shows New York City being invaded by 8 bit creatures from popular 1980′s video games (including Donkey Kong, Tetris and Space Invaders) has been created by Patrick Jean from Onemoreproductions, and WOW is it good. It has also gone incredibly viral; over 1 million views within the first 24hrs!

Pixels is creative, well executed and just beautiful to ... Read more » No related posts.

Our Postal Address Has A New Home

Leon Poole — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:31:51 +0000

If you didn’t know, earlier this year we moved offices and as a result we now have a new postal address! Please forgot the old one (if you didn’t know we had a postal address, even better!) as any mail sent to it will (probably) be lost forever.

Please update your records with: Creative World PO BOX 2223 Toowong Business Centre, 4066 Queensland, Australia

* Feel free to send us ... Read more » Related posts:

HTML5

Leon Poole — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:25:52 +0000

So it certainly seems that HTML5 is starting to take centre stage as its popularity goes from strength to strength. More and more I’m hearing of websites developed in HTML5, but is it really the future of web design? And are we ready for it?

Semantically, it’s a Winner

HTML5 is being sold mainly for its new semantic abilities, and I have to agree it’s great ... Read more » No related posts.

Adding HTML5 tags to Dreamweaver CS4

Leon Poole — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:39:38 +0000

At last night’s Brisbane Web Design meetup, Carolyn King (@cazazz) mentioned how current versions of Dreamweaver don’t recognize the new HTML5 tags (ie, <header>, <article>, <aside>, <footer> etc.) and she asked if it’s possible to add support for it some how…

Here’s how: Start Dreamweaver and go to Edit > Tag Library Editor Click on the plus “+” icon and select ... Read more » No related posts.

Twitter in Plain English

Leon Poole — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:59:07 +0000

There’s been a lot of buzz twittering about Twitter lately, especially since it went gang-busters in 2009. Despite all this noise, there are still people that don’t understand what this “Twitter” stuff is about. Enter Twitter in Plain English – probably the best video that explains this social media phenomenon:

Since the making of this video, Twitter has further evolved. Why not check it ... Read more » Related posts:

Brisbane Web Design

Leon Poole — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:38:59 +0000

Brisbane Web Design is a meetup group that I’ve been involved with as assistant organiser and occasional speaker for just over 3 years, and somehow during the crazy December 2009 time of last year it occurred to me that I had never really spoken about the web design group in much detail here on the Creative World blog – so I began ... Read more » No related posts.

Brisbane Chinatown Mall welcomes the Tiger

Leon Poole — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:54:16 +0000

The Brisbane Chinatown Mall was officially re-opened yesterday, Sunday 14th February 2010 just in time for the year of the Tiger with Lord Mayor of Brisbane Campbell Newman centre stage for the launch.

The highlight of the day was the unveiling of the mall’s new Carp statue by local Chinese artist Catherine Chui. The statue is a playful and dynamic design consisting of two ... Read more » No related posts.

Brisbane’s New Chinatown Mall

Leon Poole — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:38:02 +0000

For some time now Brisbane’s Chinatown Mall has been under going a major facelift. With only a few days until the mall is officially reopened I was lucky enough to be passing by to see some of the light sequences during testing on the new Street Gate entrance.

The Chinatown Mall officially opens this Sunday 14th February 2010 in sync with Chinese New Year ... Read more » Related posts: