Theme Released: Rock Solid

March 2, 2009 - By Ralph - 164 Comments
ForTheLose.org

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 …

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FTL Weekly Review – Vol. 4

March 1, 2009 - By Ralph - 8 Comments
Weekly Reviews

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. …

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FTL Saturday Snippet #2

February 28, 2009 - By Ralph - 9 Comments
Saturday Snippets

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?
How many of …

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WPWebhost.com “Best Wordpress Design” Award Competition

February 25, 2009 - By Ralph - 11 Comments
ForTheLose.org

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 …

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Examples of and How to Create the CSS Parallax Effect

February 23, 2009 - By Ralph - 30 Comments
ForTheLose.org

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 …

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FTL Weekly Review – Vol. 3

February 22, 2009 - By Ralph - 11 Comments
Weekly Reviews

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 …

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