LucidLab Webdesign, photography and cyber culture
How to remove a unwanted autocompletion browser URL entry
Everyone knows the problem. You enter the first characters of an website URL like “www.goo” in your browser and the one of the autocomplete entry is “www.gooooolge.com”. That is very annoying but as easy to remove the incorrect entry. In Firefox and Internet Explorer you simply select the wanted URL with your cursor keys and [...]
Why is it necessary to optimize the textcontrast of a website?
Graphic artists often design fabulous layouts and screendesigns but how good is that if people can’t read them? The website contrastrebellion.com occupies oneself with this topic to inform graphic artists and webdesigners to do a better job. The project brings impressive to the point how important good readability for the daily use of the Internet is. It [...]
Super Mario HTML 5 version
An other cool piece of HTML5 is this Super Mario version. This example of genius HTML5 coding is from Robert Kleffner, he published it for you to try. Nintendo Wii is not required The control keys are: Move: Left/Right Jump/Enter Level: S Fireball/Run: A At the moment the game is not available because bandwidth limit [...]
Weekly Webtip – Best wallpapers
Wallbase.cc is a carefully selected recourse of wallpapers and desktop themes. To find your favorit wallpaper you can search by interest, browse categories or simply use the random function to find your new wallpaper. The resource has over 590.000 wallpapers indexed.
StumbleUpon balloon tip “I likie it!” reminder
With this tiny PHP script you are able to remind your website visitors to support you via StumbleUpon. The script automatically displays a balloon tipp (as shown screenshot) with a custom text like “Please support us on StubleUpon” under the “I like it” button at the StumbleUpon bar. Simply download the the stumbleremider PHP script [...]
Easy to use PHP pagination
If you list hundred or thousand records from a database on your website, it is unconfortable to show all of these on one page. So I wrote a pagination function in PHP to browse through the pages like browsing through google results with a previous and next link. It is also simple to customize the [...]
Weekly Webtip – 9 Useful and Free Online Tools for Web Designers and Developers
Spritebox Spritebox is a What You See Is What You Get tool for web developers to easily create CSS classes or IDs from a sprite image. You can quickly mark the areas of your sprite image with your mouse and Spritebox will generate the CSS code using the background-position property. Link: www.spritebox.net Embedding Facebook [...]
Welcome to my world of cyber culture and photography
My name is Ingo Smeritschnig and I’m CEO of the Austrian company Polymorph. LucidLab.cc is my private blog where I’ll report my impression of cyber culture and photography. I was born in the seventies and grown up with oldschool computers like the legendary c64 and an Amiga 500. My interesst since I used my first [...]