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Archive for the category "Web Design & Development"

  • Date: November 7th, 2006
  • Time: 4:59 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 1

AJAX-ify your site in 5 minutes

I’m discovering the wonders of AJAX. Its an awesome means of making smooth transitions on your website. When pages flicker and jump too quickly to the next link, users can be left unaware that anythings actually happened. With a nice (and easy to do) transition, your page can slide down when loaded and slide up when you’re done.

I’m unfortunately not skilled enough to write my own AJAX functions, but thanks to the likes of Scriptaculous and Prototype, and …

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  • Date: July 24th, 2006
  • Time: 4:47 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 12

Score yourself a DVD of Music…

Ok, here’s the dealio… I’m looking for somewhat of a literary genius, with a bit of creativity to come up with a domain name for a new website that a partner and I want to start. I need something fairly generic - ie not specific to a topic like cars.com, and something funky, not like cars.com. The only project information that I can give you at present, is that it is blog …

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  • Date: July 11th, 2006
  • Time: 12:10 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

Eish, lets hear it for a hiatus

Hiatus: suspension, an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
Ok so dang, I know… its been a while, but I got a new design thats about 70% or so done and I got loads of ideas and stuff I wanna try out in the coming months. Most of the writers on The Yellow Llama have become otherwise involved so for the next while, I’ll more than likely be the only guy writing.
So whats been …

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Blog News & Articles

What’s being loaded into this plane?

Its a hard disk in 1956.... HDD with 5MB storage in 1956. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data. Start appreciating your 1 GB memory ...

The WordPress Guru is launched

For the last 4 or 5 years that I've been using WordPress, I've managed to pick up a good few tips and tricks. 90% of my clients are sites who require content management systems, not blogs. And thus I've been able to create highly tweaked ...

A blind man wanders into an all-girls biker bar by mistake…

A blind man wanders into an all-girls biker bar by mistake. He finds his way to a bar stool and orders some coffee. After sitting there for awhile, he yells to the waiter, 'Hey, you want to hear a blonde joke? The bar immediately falls absolutely silent. ...

Looking for trouble…

Best part is when the dog looks up at the cat like... WTF are you doing...

26 Reasons why dogs bite people

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Examples of Kulula attendants’ sense of humor

Kulula is an Airline with head office situated in Johannesburg. Kulula airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight "safety lecture" and announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some Real examples that have been heard or reported: On a Kulula flight, (there is no assigned seating, ...