Accordions are great, but sometimes a big pain to setup. Mootools, and several other libraries, offer great pre-built accordion systems, but they’ve got their issues. We recently tried using mootools accordion on a client’s website, but we were having a fair amount of browser compatibility problems, so we set out in search for a better solution. The nice people at Switch on the Code wrote a nice tutorial on how to build your own CSS/Javascript accordion. Needless to say, it suited our needs perfectly. Then I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be great if someone made a HORIZONTAL accordion using a similar method.
Last week I posted some desktop wallpaper of a new vector swatch I was working on. Well, the pattern is finally finished, and I’m pretty happy with it. The design is based on a beautiful Indonesian batik fabric I saw and couldn’t get out of my mind. It’s exotic, a little trippy, and a lot of fun to play around with.
I set up three different color schemes: a regal orange and blue, an electric yellow and blue, and a psychedelic green and pink. I also made a bunch of Photoshop patterns from this swatch, if anyone wants those, let me know and I’ll post them.
a wax-resist dyeing technique used on textile. Batik is found in several countries of West Africa, such as Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Mali, and in Asia, such as India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Iran, the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand. However, it is in Indonesia that it is considered a national art form.
Update: First, the Batik vectors have been updated to fix a few issues with the patterns and include two more color schemes. We’ve also released some Photoshop patterns of these swatches.
If you come up with some cool color schemes, we’d be excited to see them.
In case you didn’t know, we’re all designers or developers at ClickPop. As such, we’re always looking for great stuff to help with our designs. Recently, Weese and I were in need of some textures of different types. So we set off on a quest around town to find the most splendid textures our neighborhood has to offer.
We managed to get some really useful textures, and we thought you might be able to use some of them as well. This week we have a bunch of brick textures. Let us know if you liked these, and would be interested in some of the other textures we amassed. Four more textures and a link to the zip are after the jump.
I’m finishing up a cool vector swatch based on a beautiful Indonesian batik. In anticipation of that freebie, I wanted to offer another one, our first wallpaper offering. Keep in mind, although the pattern is quite nice, it can get a little hard on the eyes. I hope you enjoy them.
Above is a little example menu I made for a fake game called “Top Secret.” Don’t expect a game to start when you click on the Play button. Instead, when you click a button you will get a little menu to change the rollover effects of said button.
What I’m going to be talking about for the next… however long you read this, is how to recreate these cool effects for your own projects. Hopefully you will come up with some better ideas for using filters then just rollover effects. Read the rest of this entry »
We’re working on revamping certain parts of the site right now… Actually, we always seem to be revamping some part of the site at all times. Sometimes the revamps are minor, boring little usability things, and sometimes they’re more interesting. We don’t generally announce every time we upgrade something, but this time we couldn’t help ourselves.
You see, this revamp involves penguins. You read that right, glorious penguins.
Along with being a neato blog that gives away free vectors, textures, pixel paterns, and flash things, and offers tutorials on illustrator, web programming, flash, photoshop, etc, we’re also a new media marketing and web development company. We do all sorts of projects, for all sorts of people. Sometimes it’s web design, other times we do web app development, and sometimes we set up viral marketing campaigns and social advertising internet campaigns for some really cool companies.
We don’t advertise ourselves much on our blog, and that will probably stay the same, but we are soon going to be changing our “About” tab to a “Services” page that would really help show off our ClickPopSkills. And like I said, there will be penguins.
So have some fun with the cute little penguin chick, fun-loving rockhopper penguin, regal king penguin, and awe-inspiring emperor penguin.
