I’m glad to say that after about 1-2 weeks of on-and-off work, my free Wordpress theme Rock Solid is now available for download to the public. I have to say I am really proud with how this theme turned out. I’ve always wanted to do a “dark” and “concrete-style” theme, and I think I hit the nail on the head with this one. I’ll get to the features in a second, I just want to take the …

Happy Sunday everyone. Firstly, I want to say sorry to you faithful visitors for no post on Friday. It was a very hectic week right down to the very end. I expected to have my Paypal account back by now, but looks like I’ll have to wait until Tuesday for a verdict on that one. I expected Rock Solid to be out today, but it looks like you guys will have to wait until Monday morning. …

Weeks are just flying by. Time for the second edition of ForTheLose.org’s Saturday Snippet. This week’s snippet I must give credit to Chris Coyier over at CSS-Tricks.com for. I had read a blog post there a week or so ago and learned something new. Apparently, I had been doing something wrong in every single CSS file I was writing. I was actually kinda stunned. I mean, how did I not know this?
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Well, the guys over at WPWebHost.com are up to it again. First off, not only do they offer killer hosting plans for Wordpress blogs, they also just started a brand new competition available to everyone – Best Wordpress Design. You may remember a while back when I entered the WPWebhost Coolest Wordpress Blog competition (like I had a snowball’s chance in hell of winning). Well, ForTheLose.org actually became a semifinalist in that competition. I’m thinking I …

The CSS Parallax Effect is something that is rarely used in web design but is really cool when used properly. This CSS technique utilizes absolute positioning, percentage background positioning, and z-index to create a realistic 3d scrolling background. Before we get started, let me just warn you that this effect is likely to only be effective in every browser except for Internet Explorer 6 (and lower). Since we are relying heavily on transparent .png images and absolute …

Is it already Sunday again? Man, these weeks are just flying by. I’ve been keeping busy on this end, what with managing ForTheLose.org, working on the new Rock Solid theme, and a small side project of my own, I barely have time to squeeze in a game of Warrock (but I do). I’m really proud of myself for the recent success of this darn site here. Before version 5.0 was released, we were scraping by with …