tips, tricks and tweaks

Developing the online market in Cyprus

graylite — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:19:34 +0000

Our friends at Braincache managed to reach the top of Cyprus online automotive market. Check out their design and functionality on their site here: Cyprus cars.

camere foto ricoh in romania

graylite — Fri, 18 May 2007 08:21:21 +0000

A friend of mine completed the site for Camere Foto Ricoh in Romania. Check it out.

the 12 breeds of clients

graylite — Thu, 03 May 2007 09:18:24 +0000

I never tried to categorize my clients but last week I ran into this list of breeds that opened my eyes. They’re not so many kinds and it’s always good to know how to deal with them. And eventually you’ll choose what breed of client to be yourself!

what if Microsoft packaged the iPod

graylite — Thu, 03 May 2007 08:21:29 +0000

This movie is at least 1 year old but still funny:

new romanian dentistry site up

graylite — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:16:09 +0000

We have been working for a while now to finish this dentistry clinic’s site. Check out these advanced techniques of implantology! Waiting for comments

themeColor tweaks for Flash 8 scrollpane component

graylite — Mon, 22 May 2006 06:36:34 +0000

It was pretty hard to find some that really work, but here are some examples:

scrollpane.setStyle("themeColor", "0x3F4860");
scrollpane.setStyle("borderStyle", "none");
scrollpane.setStyle("scrollTrack","none");
scrollpane.setStyle("arrow","0×800080");
scrollpane.setStyle("background","0xFFFFFF");
scrollpane.setStyle("backgroundDisabled","0xFFFFFF");
scrollpane.setStyle("foregroundDisabled","0xFFFFFF");
scrollpane.setStyle("face","0×000000");
scrollpane.setStyle("highlight3D","0xFFFFFF");
scrollpane.setStyle("highlight","0xFFFFFF");
scrollpane.setStyle("shadow","0xFFFFFF");
scrollpane.setStyle("darkshadow","0xFFFFFF");
scrollpane.setStyle("focusRectInner","0xFFFFFF");
scrollpane.setStyle("focusRectOuter","0xFFFFFF");
scrollpane.drawFocus = false;

The attribute code should be inserted usually on the first frame of the movieclip containing the component.

huge collection of CSS experiments

graylite — Mon, 22 May 2006 06:29:31 +0000

Stu Nicholls gathered an impressive collection of his experiments including CSS graphics, menus, layouts and boxes as well as browser-specific tricks. Visit and see the demos at http://www.cssplay.co.uk/.

the usage of ALT tags…

graylite — Thu, 18 May 2006 23:51:03 +0000

Its funny how mistakes can sometimes become so used they are classified as right way of doing things.
At this time many, many people believe using ALT tags for images and TITLE tags for text is the right way to go to display tooltips. This method was adopted years ago, Netscape 4.x first made the mistake of displaying ALT as a tooltip so Internet Explorer followed.

You should not use ALT tags for displaying tooltips on images. The ALT tag is used for replacement text for browsers that cannot display images, or if the user has disabled images within the browser itself. The replacement text usually gives a description of what the image is about so even if the image is disabled the user can still obtain information about the image.

The TITLE tag is used for tooltip descriptions when the user can see images but would still like read the tooltip. If a TITLE tag is not added to the IMG tag the ALT will not show up in browsers which have fixed this issue.

The wrong way of displaying a tooltip:

The right way of displaying a tooltip:

written by ian at http://css.e-lusion.com/
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