Internet is a fast paced tool, that’s a given.

Sometime, we have little problems finding informations quickly and accurately. This is why most website uses icons in order for us to recognize a tool (and its function) simply by seeing its icons.

So a problem we sometime stumble upon, is how to get nice looking icons, quickly. We aren’t all designers and there we cannot always take time to create one every time we need.

This is why I’m introducing you to IconFinder.net, a website that aims in helping you finding nice icons.

You know, every once in a while, someone come up with something simple, yet useful.

That’s how I would describe this little tool that can be found at http://www.ajaxload.info/

You only have to do a few things before downloading your “loading gif”:

1. The type of loading icon you want;
2. The background color and;
3. the foreground color.

Talk about simple! Perhaps, the only thing I’m thinking that could be added is a speed modifier…

I wanted to share my thought on that.

Perhaps you never heard of that, and if you have, you might simply be wondering what will they EVER do? “Six Revisions” wrote a nice piece of article on that subject… and since it’s Monday, I’ll give you two for the same price!

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A new website has been put online. Well, it isn’t really a NEW one, but more like a revision and a complete redo of the old one.

A screenshot of the website

Now now, I know the splash page is kinda an old fashioned way of selecting a language. But you see, it was a client requirement to have a “book cover” page. That’s a way of seeing thing and it’s a point that can be defended. In any cases, should the use access directly the index.php page without choosing any language, the website will do its best to detect and redirect the client to his preferred language (be it French or English).

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A screenshot of the home page

This project was what introduced me deeply into MooTools. It’s actually during this project that I red the “MooTools Essentials” book (twice) and enjoyed the experimentation.

I also had to develop a whole CMS for the client, in the form of an admin panel. Back then, I didn’t really knew what WordPress was capable of. I’m still using the CMS as a stand-alone installation for some clients though. It has proven useful for me since I used this opportunity to develop some script with MooTools.