Charles Ying over at satine.org developed this amazing little web app using draft CSS3 code. Its modern, simplistic design mimics that of a flash-based gallery. The app is very simple at its core, allowing a programmer to easily define which photos to load using XML. The impending death of Flash seems to keep closing in — you will be astonished that this gallery only uses CSS and some Javascript.

Click here to see my implementation of SnowStack. I’ve modified his source code and used it to pull from our Flickr photostream. Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 and Safari 4 are required for the effects to work properly — iPhones and iPod Touches with OS 3.0 and newer also work!. Sorry Windows users and late OS X adopters!

Check out Charles’ blog post for more info!

Happy holidays! Here’s a free how-to about creating a simple Concrete5 template.

I’m beginning a new website for Bogies Bar (map). The client desired a simple and effective way to manage and update content on their site without having to pay an IT support person each time. As a result, I’ve opted to use a wonderful new, open-source content management system, called Concrete5. The Concrete team’s tagline for the product is “A CMS made for Marketing, but strong enough for Geeks!” Essentially this means a marketing team that has minimal experience with web design and scripting languages can still easily and effectively manage a C5 website. At the same time, C5 is extremely extensible, and web-designer geeks like us can write add-ons and themes, and even sell them in the C5 Marketplace!

I’ll provide some more detailed how-to’s after the first of the year, but this CMS is shaping up to be extremely helpful to many businesses looking to make more extensive use of their internet presence. I’ve implemented websites in many similar softwares, such as Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, and ExpressionEngine. I can confidently say that C5 is by far the most client-friendly, elegant solution I have seen to date.

In order to get a Concrete5 based site up and running, you will need a web-server with PHP5 support. The following is a brief explanation of how to get a C5 site running, and how to implement your own theme. (more…)

First off, yey to us for launching our blog-based website! Be sure to click on the comment link below and leave your feedback on my stories!

So I went to the LA Auto Show on Tuesday, December 2, 2009. This is the first of two press days for the event, and I spent a majority of my time there fighting to get a press badge, and to gain entry into the Los Angeles Convention Center. After sorting things out, I made my way through four halls — two major halls house the biggest brands in automotive OEMs. One smaller hall houses a humungous Porsche exhibit, as always. Another smaller hall is home to other exotics, such as the new Fisker, based in Irvine, CA. Additionally, Lotus, Rolls Royce, and other European super-car brands were showing their newest revisions.

BMW and Audi’s exhibits were the most eye-catching because of their bright, overly prestigious displays. It was nice to see some of the American brands making an effort for once as well. The Chevy Volt certainly isn’t the best looking auto out there, but hopefully it will bring GM the boost they will undoubtedly need to survive in the coming decade.

Photos after the jump:

First off, yey to us for launching our blog-based website! Be sure to click on the comment link below and leave your feedback on my stories!

So I went to the LA Auto Show on Tuesday, December 2, 2009. This is the first of two press days for the event, and I spent a majority of my time there fighting to get a press badge, and to gain entry into the Los Angeles Convention Center. After sorting things out, I made my way through four halls — two major halls house the biggest brands in automotive OEMs. One smaller hall houses a humungous Porsche exhibit, as always. Another smaller hall is home to other exotics, such as the new Fisker, based in Irvine, CA. Additionally, Lotus, Rolls Royce, and other European super-car brands were showing their newest revisions.

BMW and Audi’s exhibits were the most eye-catching because of their bright, overly prestigious displays. It was nice to see some of the American brands making an effort for once as well. The Chevy Volt certainly isn’t the best looking auto out there, but hopefully it will bring GM the boost they will undoubtedly need to survive in the coming decade.

Photos after the jump:

            

Ben Radler Designs is proud to be a host for Shem Dahud’s new 2009 EP release. Shem is a Music Producer and Session Drummer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. After sitting on hundreds of songs for the past few years, Shem has selected five (5) to be placed on his first EP. Fans of all instrumental music, but namely hip-hop and trip-hop, will enjoy Shem’s first release.