Once upon a time some really good web developers created sIFR. Their goal was to seamlessly convert HTML headlines into nice fonts. Well, these developers did a great job getting it to work nicely.

They are probably one of the most popular trend in Web 2.0 time. It’s most over-used trendy little design technique in our days, they immediately attract visitor’s attention. Web badges have various round or square corners and eye-catchy colours.

Image protection is a hot topic on the net these days, and why shouldn’t it be? If you spent two hours designing an awesome graphic, would you want it ripped of in matter of seconds?

swfIR (swf Image Replacement) is here to solve some of the design limitations of the standard HTML image and its widely-accepted associated CSS values, while still supporting standards-based design concepts.

Slideshow is a javascript class for MooTools 1.2 to stream and animate the presentation of images on your website. Slideshow is the result of many trials in code attempting to create a javascript class that was lightweight, unobtrusive, a snap to setup (but also highly configurable), extendable and - built using the javascript framework with the best effects - visually very impressive.

After the success of 111 great and free textures from stock.xchng that i wrote a couple of weeks a go i decided to write another post with again 111 free and great textures from stock.xchng. You know the drill, sign up @ stock.xchng (for free) to download the free textures.

Image optimization is an art that not many people master. There are many good image editing tools that allow us to get the best visual result for a certain file size but “under the hood” a lot more optimization can be done.

Pixlr is a online image editor, that means that you can upload your images and edit them in your browser. It is built in Flash and you need to have a Flash plugin to get it to work.

Vector Magic’s flagship service is the online auto tracer available on this website. It converts bitmap (aka raster) images into vector images through an easy-to-use web interface - just upload your image and it will guide you through the process.

One of the things that i like to do is brouwsing on stock.xchng. Here you can find lots of great free stock textures and that means it will cost you nothing. So i created a little list of some great textures, the only thing you got to do is created an account @ stock.xchng. Dont worry it will cost you nothing.