I’m working now at a UI of a Java platform for selling flowers. One thing that I’m doing is implementing the design into the template system. There are some important things that I should take care like: everything should easy be translate in N’ languages.

One of the elements that need to be translated are the buttons. They are very fancy, with icon and glow effect so I’m implenting them using the full-button-resize technique that I described in a previous post. Everything is going ok but I have some problems with Safari, the height of the button should be with 1px less that the Firefox css code, so I search for a css hack.  Nobody likes css hack but most of us have use of them once in a while.

Here is the way that I solved my problem:

@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
/* Safari 3.0 and Chrome rules here */
}

Do you know that Youtube launched click-to-buy links in the US and UK last October, and now is expanding this feature to Spain, the Netherlands and Germany?

From the Youtube Blog:

Last year we launched our eCommerce platform for YouTube, which allows users to easily “click-to-buy” products — like songs and movies — related to the content they’re watching on the site. The past few months have demonstrated that great content on YouTube leads to increased sales. For example, when Monty Python launched their channel in November, not only did their YouTube videos shoot to the top of the most viewed lists, but their DVDs also quickly climbed to No. 2 on Amazon’s Movies & TV bestsellers list, with increased sales of 23,000 percent.

Hat tip to Xavier Casanova of VideoRetailer.org for posting this news update on the Youtube ecommerce project.

A simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project. Pretty cool.

To use, simply enter the title of the project and your default hourly rate. Then adjust your anticipated hours accordingly to generate your total project estimate. When finished, you can view your finalized estimate in a print-ready format in case you’d like to save a PDF or print a copy for your records.

http://estimator.astuteo.com/

Long time no post … Well I’m busy with projects like everybody else and I couldn’t fine time for blogging (good excuse).

Latest News? A big change, I switch to Mac Book Pro. There is not more Dell laptop and Microsoft programs in my mind. A change that worth the pain … of migrating the files, photos, work, emails ….

As soon as I got the it and after I learned the keyboard (I’m still search for home/end keys) and the way that it works I installed all the application that I need to do better UI designs, development and have fun.

• Firefox (with Firebug and other extensions)
• Macfusion
• Adobe CS4
• Linotype FontExplorer
• iWork
• Transmit
• Textmate
• NeoOffice
• Adium
• Skype
• MAMP
• VMware Fusion (for IE6)
• NeoOffice and other utilities

… everything is working like a charm and at the end I’m happy to say: Hi I’m a Mac user!