Solution for Empty Designer Minds

This tool is not a generator of finished ideas – it is a “thought-starter.”

I came across a website that offered quite a unique solution to anyone creative with a blockage for ideas. As the creative director of MouseBrains said, the phrases generated from the form you fill up isn’t finished ideas.

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Floating Hints

Technically, I have no idea what they’re called exactly. However, I do recognize them as floating hints and probably tooltips. If you haven’t seen what they look like, then you probably haven’t visited Edrei’s Footsteps in the Mirror blog.

What I like about these things is they are a great help for those who are too worried of clicking on some links. There have been surveys done where a user asks, if I clicked or submitted my information then how am I suppose to know where would it go? In comes the solution..DOM tooltips.

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dPolls an AJAX Poll

I just visited Darren’s Problogger website and found him featuring something nifty I thought it would be great to share with everyone.

Introducing dPolls, an AJAX based poll that you could create for free. When you’d like to create a poll, you need to register a free account and verify the email address you’ve used in the registration. Once that’s done and verified, you’re on your way of creating your poll very easily.

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Flash Player 8 Redraw Regions

I was surfing Hardware Zone and noticed they were running a CANON iPixma printer contest but dang, it already passed. Anyway, the micro site was done in Flash and as usual, you’d find out by right clicking the mouse on the area.

I noticed something new in the flash player 8 menu. There was an option called Redraw Regions. Like a curious puppy, I clicked on it and didn’t see any difference until I clicked on a link and loaded the next page. There were red outlines everywhere. It was like..

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One Markup to Rule Them All

Just how far have you taken these familiar elements when developing a new personal or client website? And we’re talking about sections here, not the design. One guy worked with the bare minimum of:

• a short stylesheet
• header
• menu
• content
• sub-section
• footer
• no hacks

..and turned them into a bunch of fluid layouts.

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