IconBuffet was already since a longer time a place to get professional Icons for a small price and also to get “free deliverys”. Today I noticed that this Icon web shop is mutated into a social community with the ability to trade Icons, and to share information / weblogs.

The best thing is the membership (also the traded Icons) is free: Just join and get 10 free tokens (once a month?) which are good for ~3 professional Icon sets. If you deliver Icons you got before from friends to other friends you earn some “Stamps”. Read the rest of this entry »

Marino from TechSymptom is great web-designer and started a series of Fireworks tutorials on web 2.0 styled navigation bars. The last one inspired me to create this small CSS tutorial.

After we finished the tutorial we need to create 2 simple images to style our CSS navigation bar: A background image (the light blue bar) and a transparent button that indicate the active state, all other elements are created with CSS.

Like in most CSS horizontal navigation bars an unordered list is used to hold the menu items: Read the rest of this entry »

While a lot of web shops attract more and more international customers it is important to tell people the price not only in US-Dollars or Euros. Every shop owner with a bigger product catalog knows that currency conversions are very time spending and often impossible because of a too large price list. Showing the right currency to customers will raise the international sales, because the customer will give all his attention to the product and not to some conversion rates. Read the rest of this entry »

Since Alexa stopped offering their free thumbnail service last year a lot of thumbnail services are available now. Some of them offering limited free services and others only a paid premium version. On of the bigger and better services is Girafa, a thumbnail service with a free service and also premium services for users with more then 2000 image requests a month.

Joining the service for free is fast and easy, within an hour my account was up and well. Read the rest of this entry »