We all love the great animated menus that can be created in flash, they add great user interactivity to a website and replace the boring static HTML text menus.

The Problem with Flash menus is that it doesn’t reach all users, such as those using iPhones, or Blackberrys, or those who still live in the stone age and simply don’t have Flash installed on their computer.  Editing a Flash menu can also be a pain if the menu does not utilize XML, if you don not have Flash on your computer, or if you lack the original .fla to edit. Not too mention some Flash menus can be pretty bulky and take awhile to load, while most JQuery menus are very light, this one is less than 100k.

This is where JQuery steps in, giving your menu the snappy animations that Flash provides while presenting a broader browser compatibility at the same time.

Get yourself ready, we are about to dive in. Continue reading

Apperantly the iPad is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I guess the iPad and sliced bread do have a little in common when you consider that they are both slightly modified versions of an already existing product.

Does the iPad have some cool features? Sure it does.

Is it completely useless? By no means, it’s great for eBooks.

What I fail to understand is the growing buzz surrounding, what is essentially an overgrown iTouch. That, in my mind, is where Apple really swung and missed on this one. Why spend the time and energy on something that is supposed to “change the game”, and add absolutely nothing to it? Continue reading

So I decided to join the ranks of people who write about random junk to total strangers only to be told how wrong their opinion is.  It’s also a way for me to communicate with some of my clients from my design site.  Nothing special today, just a quick heads up that I will be blogging a few times a week on all sorts of topics, feel free to comment on anything that I write.