
Phew, like probably every designer, you undergo such horrid pains creating a design and taking pleasure out of it. Nothing you produce ever seems good enough.
Thriving for perfection - a masochistic disease so many have. Oh, the attitude of mind. You know you cannot reach perfection as it would contradict every possible setting we carry in our genes, but what good does it do to dwell passively on our imperfections if we can at least attempt to reach the maximum of our capabilities, however small or large they might be? Being slightly delusional and hopelessly optimistic does help at times. Putting oneself…
I've been contacted by a few readers that neither my Atom feed nor my RSS feed were working. This is truly embarassing, I must admit to my shame. The past few weeks have been explosive (in a good way) and I've had little time to write articles and such due to the simple fact that I'm currently overwhelmed with client work.
There has also been quite a good amount of spam that paved its way through my comments and thus affected my readers as they received those wonderfully precise and eloquent trash in their mailbox. I have done away with that by implementing a…


Scenario: When viewing a single entry, you would like to display the most recent entries on the side, excluding the currently viewed entry. By default, ExpressionEngine doesn't have a special function or parameter for it. However, there's a very simple way to add this feature; by creating a global variable…
When it comes to designing web sites for clients, one of the things we ask ourselves first is how we can develop a required feature in the most simple and intuitive way possible. Some clients have their web sites maintained by professionals while other clients prefer to maintain their web…
There are indeed are variety of means by which you can highlight a menu item of the current page you're on. One way would be to use ExpressionEngine's embedded template functionality which is very sophisticated. The downside in my view is that you have to — as the name…

It may be too early to tell, but this new tool looks most promising.
Cufon, a simpler approach to text replacement via JS.
This website and its content is the sole property of rockatee.com.
For inquiries of any kind, please contact me.
© 2009 rockatee.com