e-magine(pretty & functional)

While implementing yet another a WordPress site, I found myself in the situation where I wanted to display any and all images in lightboxes, but with a minimum of interaction from the editor’s part.

All current plugins that integrate Slimbox (that I know of – this one, for example) actually require the editor to add the rel="lightbox" attribute. But since the editors of this site have no HTML knowledge whatsoever and will be editing in “visual” mode, this hinders deployment.

So I came up with a modification to the actual javascript of Slimbox, to make it identify all links to images and lightboxify them read full article

A good friend of mine is struggling to get his business on the road – he’s selling scooters and parts. In an attempt to help out, I’ve designed a logo for him:

Soon enough, I’ll build him a website as well

This website is just over a year, the MOOdalBox page just went over 100.000 views and I just cashed in my first AdSense payment – a fabulous $100.78 (gathered in about a year)

It’s not much, but it pays for the hosting plan of this website – which means that this site is self-sustained.

I’ve grown to about 12.000 visitors with around 30.000 page views a month.

And this, for a blog with less than 30 posts. This is a wake up call for me: I will put more time in this site, from the little I have left, after my day job and my freelance projects.

I have so many ideas, like, for instance, the long awaited MOOdalBox 2 (lots of people have asked me when it would come out, I’ve made and broken so many promises on this subject ).

To sum it up, I feel the need to thank all my visitors for spending a moment here and for supporting me on every occasion. Thanks guys

MOOdalBox has the the honor to be the first featured post on the SkinShare dev blog, with a tutorial on how to make a quick and easy age verification procedure.

Unfortunately, this is a JavaScript only method – so it’s easily bypassed. I’ll have a version that uses more server-side scripting ready some time soon (for a project I’m working on), but this is cool and can easily enough be used just as a warning.

While checking who’s checking me out today, on the notorious hi5 website, I noticed one weird bug (I’m not saying that the site is bug-free otherwise, but this one is “try-it-yourself” fun): the friend request’s dates are incremented by 10 hours and.. one minute – at each subsequent refresh of the page (see for yourself: login to hi5 and click here friend requests page).

Here’s a screenshot I made (after already refreshing several times – note the date of the request, it’s already 10 days ahead):

Followed by another, one refresh later: read full article