Design

I had decided to create the "glass" effect popularised by OSX and Vista and while following various guides and creating some graphics in the GNU Image Manipulation Package I spotted a pattern and decided to come up with a way to create the now popular glass effect in CSS, without using any graphics at all.

Using the gradient fill in GIMP and applying those colours to the CSS used to create the Nifty Corners effect, I managed to create some pure CSS Glass buttons. Hopefully I can explain how I did this below and show you how you can create the same effect for your own projects.

A lot of smilies that I've gathered over the years of running my forum.

A lot of world flags, for use on websites for internationisation purposes, or, as I've used them, to put a nationality next to a user.

A clean version of this file, with all the images, can be found at http://www.darksnow.net/downloads/images/flags/.

I'm not convinced that this is relevant any more, but I find it handy to see the web safe colours all together like this when making sites. The web safe palette also limits your options which makes it a little easier to make a decision about which particular green you're looking for.