Ever felt like giving your site’s theme a cool, striped look but didn’t know how to go about it? Are the graphics tutorials on stripes too complex for you to follow? Here’s you quick and dirty way out. Stripemania is a free online tool that generates striped background images for use with your site’s theme in just a couple of quick, easy steps.
The interface is pretty simple. To get your desired stripe, you choose the width of the stripes, the distance between each stripe, orientation and a couple of colours and hit refresh. Thats it! Your custom stripe is ready to download. If you don’t like vanilla stripes (alternating coloured stripes) – you can choose multiple gradients for the stripes and get some pretty snazzy effects. There’s a quick full-screen preview option that lets you test your background out even before you download it.
Stripemania falls within the recent Web 2.0 genre of online graphics design tools and is one of the better designed tools in this category and pretty much devoid of the ubiquitous AJAX timeout errors. It’s a must-add in any aspiring web-designer’s toolbox.
A brief intro…
This sidebar widget serves as a quick Units Conversion tool – i.e. perform conversions between various units of length, area, volume, speed etc., while sitting smugly in the sidebar of widget enabled WordPress blogs. This widget came in rapid succession of curreX (the Currency Converter) and the idea came off a comment by David Bradley at the Weblog Tools Collection blog. Since I’m…
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A brief intro…
Past few weeks I’ve been extremely busy designing a Property Investment site for a client. The primary requirement was a custom CMS (Content Management System) – which I had to build from scratch. While it drove me over the edge at times overall it was a thoroughly enjoyable as well as an educational journey for me. Since this is a site that caters…
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Nowadays every second site you see employs some form or AJAX or the other – either wholly or in parts. With the old-school model of refreshing the whole page a visitor had always had a clear-cut indication that he/she is supposed to wait till the page-load is complete. That’s one respect AJAX seriously lacks in. In short there’s no way for the user to know…
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For those who want to make some serious headway into the insanely booming technology called AJAX, here’s a golden opportunity. Boston based Sang Shin, who’s a technology architect, consultant, and evangelist at SUN Microsystems offers a free 18-week online course on AJAX.
The course commences on 18th of February, 2007 and covers some hot new topics such as the opensource JavaScript toolkit named Dojo, the NO-JavaScript…
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Arizona based Ten Ships has announced the first public beta of their all new product AjaxDNS, which is an Ajax framework …
… for any systems administrator, support technician, or anyone that needs quick network and domain tools and analysis.
The features offered are:
Live DNS
Whois Search
IP Whois
HTTP Headers
RBL Search
Ping
DNS Traversal
Here’s a screenshot…
Looks quite cool and queries even faster. I say, give it a try
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