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This illustration of Homer Simpson was created using pure HTML and CSS. The source website is written in Spanish, and it doesn’t look like any explanation was given on the creative process. Looks like it took a lot of time to create though. Ingenious!

The resulting image displays properly across most modern browsers:

• Internet Explorer 5.5, 6 y 7
• Opera 9
• Firefox 2
• Safari 3

I have even tested it in Firefox 3 and it displays properly with no issues.

Here is the complete HTML code used to create CSS Homer:
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I have always been a huge fan of the minimalistic sign-up form. You know, the ones where all it takes to create an account is to provide 3 items: username, e-mail address, and password. Including the password confirmation box and that makes four. So, I was ecstatic when Luke Wroblewski’s article came out. Here he was telling us that there is actually a better approach which allows its visitors to plunge into the service without being stopped by a sign up and a login screen.

I tested one of the featured sites myself, Geni and behold, I never even saw a registration screen. I was converted from visitor to user in a snap.

Other featured sites included Jumpcut, TripIt, and Fidelity’s myPlan.

Now that is what you call thinking out of the box!

As a follow up to my recent article on CSS-only, tableless forms, do check out the CSS Form Garden, a gallery that showcases uniquely style forms utilizing the same forms technique.

Inspired by the holiday season, Design Disease has just released “Christmas Days”, as a Christmas-inspired Wordpress theme as a gift to bloggers around the world. It is one sweet theme so make sure to check it out!

The theme has been tested on WordPress 2.3.1 with Firefox , Opera, Safari and IE6/7. It validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

Related links:

• Test the Theme
• Download the Theme

The new Paypal website has now gone public. It makes extensive use of CSS and features the new Paypal Logo.

Here are screenshots of the old site side by side with the new one:

Also check out the new Paypal buttons.

This site was submitted to to the gallery. At first glance I thought somebody submitted our own site. Anyway, see for yourself why.

It’s about time. Social news ranker / aggregator Digg has gone live with its new design and it is looking SWEET. I personally like it and I think it’s a major improvement over the old design.

Old Digg.com:

New Digg.com: