Oh, well – at least if we don’t count pop-ups, downloadable .PDFs and such… They came in big style this year, and I feel they are going to make their mark in the next season, too. Continue reading ›

Ever since I started with this web thing, I’ve been quite satisfied with my current hosting provider. By the release of some high traffic sites (you guessed it right – the Typetester), I faced the troubles caused by the numbers of visitors and multiple database queries.

I already purchased a new account from other provider, but I wanted to post my expectations for the future reference: Continue reading ›

Last month, the Poslovni Tjednik web site was reworked. Poslovni Tjednik is one of Croatian business magazines. We didn’t design that site, but we designed 24 sata and Nacional earlier this year. Those two are also newspapers online counterparts.

On both of our projects we brought some trendy concepts, as well as invented a few fresh ones. As a developer I often question myself about what are our influences (if any) to other development teams. The day has come for me to finally get that answer. Proud as I can be, I found a few great improvements on the Poslovni Tjednik, which I’d like to believe we at the Burza were on the minor part responsible for. Continue reading ›

The negative text indent image replacement technique (a.k.a. the Phark image replacement) is very popular and widely used in many modern (i.e. accessible) designs.

There’s, however, this annoying rectangle, which is in Firefox 1.5 now expanded all the way to the left (usually it’s 9999 pixels to the left). The rectangle is ugly, and while we’re waiting for Firefox developers to fix it (report Firefox bugs), here’s a quick and dirty solution:

var remove_rectangle = function() {
    var lnks = document.links;
    if (lnks) {
        for (var i = 0; i < lnks.length; i++) {
            lnks[i].onmousedown = function() {
                this.blur();
                return false;
            }
        }
    }
}
window.onload = function() {
    remove_rectangle();
    // the rest of your onload functions
}

Unfortunately, we can’t remove the rectangle completely, because focus() functionality is necessary for browsing with a keyboard.

Speaking of which, do you always define :focus and :active pseudo-classes or do you sometimes forget about them?