Waterlife http://waterlife.nfb.ca/
All I can say about this website is WOW! This is one of the most beautiful and well designed sites I have seen in a while. This is a work of art in my opinion, a piece that not only captures the audience, but creates an emotional impact as well. One of the most [...]
Website of the Day: Waterlife, http://waterlife.nfb.ca/
October 30th, 2009Modal Windows for opening images and websites without leaving your website
September 22nd, 2009I have been working with and designing Modal windows for quite some time now. For the most part I have designed what I want them to look like and then I have used some type of open source to make them work. There are several different types of modal window javascript library’s to download, however [...]
PhotoShop CS4 benefits and review
September 21st, 2009So far I have been working with Photohop CS4 for over 6 months. For the most part, I like it a lot. I have worked PhotoShop since version 4 and I will say that this is definitely the cream of the crop and the best version that I have worked with so far. My favorite [...]
Wireless back up for your graphics and other files
August 20th, 2009Okay, I work on a laptop. I like my laptop because it is wireless. I like sitting back and watching Hockey and working on my laptop, nuff said. My wife loves her laptop. Call us an old couple into technology, however after a hard day of work we like to sit in front of the [...]
MeasureIt for Firefox
August 10th, 2009Ever wanted to know how many pixels wide something is on a web page. I used to find myself doing a print screen, pasting into my favorite editor and then measuring it using that application’s measuring device. I wanted to know how I could speed this up, because in my line of work it is [...]
PhotoShop CS4 Updates
August 3rd, 2009I have been working with computer design applications since around 1987. The first program that I used was Deluxe Paint II. This was an awesome application if anyone remembers. You could do almost anything, vector, animation, rendering, and many other tricks. The resolution was not that great however the applications seemed to combine several different [...]
Designers Vs Developers
July 23rd, 2009Sometimes I like to rant a little about the separation between designers and developers. Some will say that a developer is anyone who can build a web page. Many say that a true developer can write a 2000 line SQL stored procedure in his sleep. Obviously if this was true, anyone less in skill would [...]
CSS text kerning for your web pages
July 22nd, 2009Have you ever felt like you were limited in the things that you could do with your typography on a web page? I have, before I knew what CSS was, one of the things that always wanted to do, but was not available back in the day was apply kerning to my web pages without [...]
How to refresh or reload an iframe that works in Firefox and IE
June 8th, 2009Ever have a problem where an iframe that you have in your web page will just not refresh or reload? This is definately a problem if you have updated the source file of the iFrame, yet it does not show recent changes. How do fix this, with a little bit of Javascript!
All you need is [...]
Cropping an image on the web using CSS
April 20th, 2009Ever had an image that you could not re-size, or did not want to re-size, however wanted to crop? Maybe the image was too large for your page or, you just wanted to show a small portion of the image. Using this technique you can also position text on top of the image, like a [...]
