Circular Images with CSS3
I discovered how to create circular images using CSS3 the other day and thought it was totally awesome. The only drawback is that the image has to appear as a background image. You can’t really do this effect directly to an image that is displayed using an image tag. What this means is that no […]
WordPress 3.1: Internal Linking
I spent a lot of time discussing WordPress 3.1 at last night’s Montreal developer_meetup(), and someone brought up a great point about the new internal linking feature. As it stands, the feature allows you to easily add a link to any post or page within your database. All you need to do is highlight some […]
Amazing Hover Effects with CSS3
I have received a lot of questions lately about hover effects and how you can execute them using only CSS. There was a time when you would have to use jQuery to really make your effect stand out, but now CSS3 has some pretty amazing properties that help designers create some lightweight effects that truly […]
WordPress 3.1: The New Admin Bar
I have been playing around with the latest release candidate for WordPress 3.1 and some of the new features are pretty cool. I really like the admin bar and I spent a bit of time yesterday figuring out how I could take advantage of it for my themes. All I really wanted to do was […]
The Last Day of 2010
I just wanted to thank everyone for help making 2010 an extremely successful and rewarding year here at bavotasan.com. I’m hoping to keep up the momentum in 2011 with more tutorials and articles so be sure to keep coming back, and let me know if there are any specific subjects you would like to see […]
Creating a Sticky Footer for your Site
I was messing around with the WordPress admin and I somehow managed to break the footer. This made me pay a bit more attention to how it actually worked, and I realized that it used a pretty awesome CSS trick to make sure that no matter what size your browser window was, it stuck to […]
Arturo Framework for WordPress
It took a lot longer than I anticipated, but I think the wait was well worth it. The Arturo framework for WordPress is finally ready and I must say, it’s pretty awesome. For more information check out Themes by bavotasan.com.
Simple Text Shadow Effect using CSS3
Here are some cool and easy to implement text shadow effect that I have been using a lot recently. They don’t take much but they do add a lot more depth and detail to your text. Here is some black text on a grey background with a 1 pixel white text shadow. That one is […]
How to Set a Default Custom Background in WordPress 3.0
If you’re a theme developer and you want to allow users to set a custom background image or color, activating the feature in WordPress 3.0 is as simple as including one line of code in your functions.php file. If you want to have a default background image or color, it takes a bit more fiddling […]
Elemental Portfolio WordPress Theme
Elemental Portfolio began as an experiment to see if I could develop a unique way for people to show off their work, using only CSS3, jQuery and Ajax. The original layout and design idea came from the periodic table of elements. Each time the front page is reloaded, the layout will change completely, which I […]