Manmohanjit Singh Where simple things meet http://manmohanjit.com/ Copyright (C) 2010 Manmohanjit Singh. All rights reserved. A new update on the way http://manmohanjit.com/post/a-new-update-on-the-way/ I've been cooking up a new design update for this site. Right now it uses a clean template, which was inspired by the Room 34 Baseline theme. It is a really nice and simple theme. It's worth a look if you are using Wordpress. I've got the design's structure ready, it's just the implementing. I need to edit 10-20 files with the new code. It's not only a design change, I've also fixed a few bugs on the back-end and added some additional fe... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:02:58 +0800 YouTube buttons and banners for your site http://manmohanjit.com/post/youtube-buttons-and-banners-for-your-site/ I was once a avid YouTube user. I used to make many videos for the public to watch. After that I deleted my videos by mistake and started re-uploading the ones that I had backed up. My last sign in was dated 4 months ago. Well there are a few new buttons and banners which you can use on your site. It looks nice too. There are actually a lot to choose from. View it all of it on YouTube's download page, here. Anyway, you can still... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:10:56 +0800 Windows 7 Live Wordpress Theme http://manmohanjit.com/post/windows-7-live-wordpress-theme/ A long time ago, I was once a Microsoft lover. I was blogging for a site called Tech Invaders which still exists but no posts are being made anymore. I haven't got the time to blog everyday, so I had to dump that site. Anyway.. getting to the fun part, today I'm releasing this theme. So you can now download it, yay or nay? Before I continue, let me clarify that this theme is very similar to Microsoft's Windows 7 website and the graphics were by Microsoft. I take no... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:16:43 +0800 3 simple ways to speed up your site http://manmohanjit.com/post/3-simple-yet-efficient-ways-to-speed-up-your/ Here are three simple ways where you could improve your site load time, I use most of this methods on my site and I suggest that you should too. Use CSS Sprites, it helps a lot. It reduces the amount of HTTP requests which would surely load your site faster. Look below for a list of sites that use this method. Firefox Start Page Apple Home Page Ask Search Engine Facebook Compress your CSS and Javascript f... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:53:14 +0800 Slick Menu using CSS3 http://manmohanjit.com/post/slick-menu-using-css3/ I found a article, 'Create a Slick Menu using CSS3'. Can you even imagine how far CSS3 can take you? Pure CSS, no images and no javascript. They tried to mimic Dragon Interactive which used a lot of resources(images, javascript). The animations only work in Webkit based browsers like Google Chrome and Apple Safari. To extend support for non-Webkit browsers, a simple line of jQuery code would do the job. As usual, in Internet Explorer you just get the navigation structure. ... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:14:34 +0800 6 cool and free social icon sets http://manmohanjit.com/post/6-cool-and-free-social-icon-sets/ I love icons, on every page of my blog you'll see at least one icon. Social icons are cool, finding them is a little bit hard but there's always Google. So I've compiled a list of 6 social icon sets which looks cool. Hope you will like it. Lazy to read? Just click on each of this links to view the icon sets. Free Grass Textured Social Bookmarking Icon Set Vintage Stamp Social Media Icon Pack 27 Free Wooden Badges – Social Icon Pack ... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:24:34 +0800 jQuery 1.4.2 Released http://manmohanjit.com/post/jquery-142-released/ Today the second minor release of jQuery 1.4 was released. According to the jQuery team, it fixes a outstanding amount of bugs from the 1.4 release and landing some nice improvements. Two new methods were added, .delegate() and .undelegate(). In this new release, large code rewrites had been done. Performance in version 1.4.2 has also improved. The jQuery team claim that this new release is 2 times faster than jQuery 1.4.1. Image Credits: jQuery According to the jQuery team... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:36:46 +0800