Okay, 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 [...]
Wireless back up for your graphics and other files
August 20th, 2009MeasureIt 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, and before I knew what CSS was to apply a form of “kerning” to my web pages without having to create a custom text graphic. Custom graphical text is always going [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
CSS vs Tables 2009
April 16th, 2009Today I had an interesting debate with a developer regarding which is superior using tables or CSS. The particular website we were reviewing uses both, DIVs and tables, however the main structure/container is a table, with DIVs within. It has been known that developing websites with DIVs rather than tables creates a much faster load [...]
How to mask images in PhotoShop
March 8th, 2009Masking 101 Ever wanted to have an image within an image? Lets say you have a background image of something, yet you want a certain part of another picture to peek through it. You could easily cut part of the picture and paste, however masking gives you the benefit of moving around the image underneath, [...]
Hello world!
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