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Airbag, as seen from around the world

+10 time zone contributor - Michelle Park

Greg Storey: Six months ago I had an idea

The response was more than decent, it was amazing and quite humbling, with responses coming from places I would never think to find an Airbag reader. So I went to work (with the masterful help of Ethan and Ryan who’s ideas and efforts made this whole thing possible) designing the best possible frame for all these wonderful glimpses into the lives of readers from all over the world.

This personal project is no small endeavour that creatively demonstrates how universal one site can be. Sure beats publishing your stats.

This is an update to Scott Kimlers’s Photo Caption Zoom. Together with Paul at InnerVisions, they have released Photozoom 3 takes steroids.

John Howard calls it stumps

On the grounds that the b2evo admin pretty much requires javascript just to function, we decided to have a play with improving the work-flow by manipulating the DOM with some pretty persuasive code …. which is ironic really, since photozoom was specifically created to be a pure CSS solution…
…and then we spent several hours beating IE over the head with a copy of HTML for Dummies.

Andy Warhol - Gun

My only part in this is to demonstrate that the plugin works in the latest version of b2evolution and to play with styling tweaks etc. So far the super slick admin for this works just like it says on the can and the Javascript/Dom magic all occurs there as well.

What you end up with is pure CSS image zooms that can be captioned, linked and even plays well with IE.
Browser testing is about to begin in earnest.

Update: Some odd behaviour reported by James…
1680 x 1050 Screen shot IE7 Vista (Image size: 184.18 KB)

Update: The above issue seems to be resolved.

Looks to be working fine in IE7/Vista, FF/Vista and it’s absolutely fine in IE6/XP too :)
no flickering etc and the zoom overlays fine now.

Beware the C in CSS.

The Wufoo Form Gallery is a resource for web developers and designers to help get a head start on data collection.

Find a template or design you like. Download the XHTML/CSS files for your workflow OR Add it to your Wufoo account to customize and use it to collect data right away.

The Wufoo Form Gallery

From Particletree

Foamee

Another social and stylish endeavour from Dan Cederholm, who sure builds nice alcohol based web sites.

Beer is currency! And if you’re like us, you’re saying “I owe you a beer” often. Foamee is simply a fun way to keep track of those I.O.U.s. It can also be just a little virtual pat-on-the-back for good deeds.

More info: Pub Chatter

The Horizontal Way

Marco Rosella's beautifully designed, marked up and recognised advocacy for horizontal Web design.

While not a fan of roll over actions and the lack of home buttons, I am impressed with Marco's generosity in providing a template download of his site and look forward to his gallery expanding.

Via: Airbag