Category Archives: Design

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Digital Art

Before I start, I would like to pay homage to Aisyah for giving her blog such a fantastic makeover!
Aisyah’s new theme!
Aisyah, whose blog is one of my greatest source of inspiraiton for design and layout, has released her new theme, My Scrapbook, on Sunday! Her themes are always a refreshing and very, very [...]

My first i-(Whatever), going Apple-esque

I got inspired after watching so many iPod commercials! This is one of my favourite:

WPvideo 1.10

The trick behind creating this Apple-esque poster is just using Photoshop’s handy Quickmask function! Here’s a short tutorial (sorry, no screenshots!).

Open the image - Either drag the image into the workspace or go to File > Open…
Enter quickmask mode - [...]

Running Around Naked… Without CSS

No it’s not a late April Fool joke. It’s for real!
Just like how the world observed an hour of darkness without illumination from lightbulb (well, that’s Earth Hour if you’ve forgotten what it was), the web is taking on an annual festival - disabling your website’s CSS stylesheet for 48hours starting on April 9th. I [...]

Photo Touchup Tutorial #1

Cherngyo asked about how can I create the third evening photo in the Evening Photography set, so I’ve took some time to create this tutorial I hope you’ll like it! Anyway unlike the previous tutorials, I’m not going to embed full-sized screenshots in this post, but embed thumbnails so you can view them in [...]

teddY-risatioN™ Delta Released!

teddY-risatioN™ Delta is finally ready for release after 3 days of hard work I’m terribly sorry that I didn’t provide a sneak peek for you all - blame it on my perfectionist mindset, it instructed me to show you the complete version of this theme instead of letting you see it partially uncompleted and [...]

Scrambled Eggs

This post is as messy as a plate of scrambled eggs. I hope you don’t mind!
The new kid in town
Don’t take it literally. This is my 800th published article (posts and pages are all counted). Nothing much to celebrate actually - I just realised it when I looked at my brand-new, sleek, elegant and sexy [...]

Evening Photography

Maybe our love with catch like fire, as it burns through me.
Part of the lyrics for the song, Beautiful Love, by The Afters. I just love the chorus part to bits - it reminds me of how the last rays of the sun illuminates the higher atmosphere like a burning torch, tearing through the falling [...]

Rollover Effects Made Easy - with CSS!

You might have been thinking about using Adobe Flash (in case you didn’t know, Adobe bought Macromedia) to create a .swf file which allows you to display dazzling rollover effects. That’s perfectly fine, but when it comes to faster loading time, simplified effects and crossbrowser compatibility, rollover effects achieved by simple CSS and (X)HTML code [...]

Favicons!

Hendra asked me something about generating your own favicons, so I’m thinking of sharing things I know about it
So what is a favicon?
According to the all-mighty Wikipedia, favicons is actually a short form of favourite icons, and…
[Favicon,] also known as a website icon, page icon or urlicon, is an icon associated with a [...]