Kevin A. Freitas

Articles

I'm a web development professional in the Tacoma/Seattle, WA area who enjoys sharing tips and techniques with others already in or venturing out into the industry. I'll always strive for getting the most bang for your buck when it comes to browser compatibility and standards compliance. My goal isn't to cater to the bleeding edge all the time but hope this site can be useful in the "real world" of web development. Thanks and enjoy!

Fancy text wrapping around an image »

Wrap text around images on a webpage without slicing and dicing the image into tiny bits.

MeasureIt extension for Firefox »

Draw out a ruler right on top of any webpage to measure width, height, and element alignment. The days of screenshot, open Photoshop, paste, and measure are over!

Wrapping gallery of thumbnails with captions »

Let loose the shackles of the columns and rows of tables and hop onto the wrapping image gallery train.

Checking multiple boxes with just one stroke »

Save yourself the wear and tear of mindlessly clicking checkbox after checkbox. Do it now with just one click!

One PNG, two browsers, no hacks »

The promise of PNGs can be realized today! Make a alpha-smooth logo or graphic for your site while maintaining basic transparency in IE.

Articles and Tutorials on the horizon

• simple, scalable CSS menus with a graphical flare
• lighting up GIFs on mouseover with CSS
• swapping images from pull-down menu via the DOM
• mouseover thumbnail enlarging (ballooning)
• curing chronic "Click Here" Syndrome
• standards-friendly, single page image slideshow

Contribute

If you'd like to help me build this resource into an empire send your idea along with anything you've already written to articles@kevinfreitas.net. If I accept your article or tutorial it may be edited for clarity, consistency, and spelling. Please include any graphics or other examples in an attached ZIP file. Make sure to provide a brief (two to four sentence) bio along with your own website url. Any article shouldn't previously have been published in paper or elsewhere on the web. After 30 days, however, you may duplicate your content where ever you choose.