Category Archives: DIY

 

Retina Sprites for Compass

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Creating CSS rules for retina sprites and background images can be a drag. I wrote a quick mixin that will help you with this. It allows you to use sprites in Compass with added retina variants. Works just like the normal sprites helpers, but has been made a lot easier with these mixins.

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jQuery plugin: Fullscreen Background

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If you’re a webdeveloper or designer I am pretty sure you’ve run into the problem of people wanting to have “fullscreen content” or just background images that will stretch in the most optimal way to the users screen.
Lately I found that a lot of people are asking for fullscreen backgrounds, videos and other types on stuff. So to prevent myself from reinventing the wheel over and over again I made a small jQuery plugin, and thought you guys might like it too.

So here it is: Fullscreen Background for jQuery.

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Kickstart app development for Spotify

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So you’ve decided to go ahead and develop an app for Spotify. Great! Starting off might be a pain though if you’re not well informed.
In this article I’ll give you a boost in developing for Spotify and warn you for common mistakes I’ve made.

App development for Spotify is not hard! It’s mainly HTML, CSS and Javascript, which you are probably already familiar with.

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WordPress Plugin: Complete Language Switcher

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A while ago I uploaded a new plugin to the WordPress plugin directory called Complete Language Switcher. Using this plugin enables you to easily make a multilingual blog with WordPress to give the user the best experience in a language you provide.

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QueryLoader2 – Preload your images with ease

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Gaya Design is back in business and hitting hard with a redo of the 2009 script QueryLoader. I kept getting e-mails and comments about it and thought I had left it just hanging there for way too long. It had become very outdated. So here it is: version 2 of QueryLoader!

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