PNG color shift from Photoshop CS2 ‘Save for Web’ solution
This issue has plagued me for years. I’m pretty sure the issue came about from messing with color profiles on my Mac. I switch between web and print graphic work a lot, so somewhere along the way I...
View ArticleHex color picker for mac copies well to Photoshop
Yea, I know it’s been a long time. Busy is a great state for a little shop like ours. Onward. I like the little Digital Color Meter that comes with the Mac (Applications>Utilities), but it falls...
View ArticleIllustrator CS3 crashes on “Place…”.
I finally dove in and upgraded to Adobe CS3. Unfortunately, Illustrator was crashing whenever I called the “Place..” command. I found a fix pretty easily though, and an official Adobe TechNote at that....
View ArticleOmniGraffle maybe the best tool for wireframing a web site layout
I know it goes against every good web design how-to book on the market, but I rarely start with a real pencil and paper. In fact, I rarely sketch out wireframes even digitally. I just go for it. Part...
View ArticleRotate and animate dynamic text fields in Flash
By now you’ve seen the Dylan Messaging viral campaign. It’s a pretty hip use of Flash. I was pretty sure I knew how the effect was done, so I was running some Flash experiments to test out my theory....
View ArticleBrowser dependent, conditional CSS styles
I have a client who doesn’t like the way the font I chose for their headers looks across platforms. I am using Lucida Grande for all the Mac browsers out there and Verdana for the PC users, since...
View ArticleUpdating WordPress plugin Popularity Contest for WP 2.5
Down at the bottom of this page, you’ll see a list of the most popular posts. It took some doing to get this plugin working on this site. I upgraded to WordPress 2.5 before installing the Popularity...
View ArticleBattle of the clickTAGs for Flash ad click throughs.
First, a bit of background. Flash banner ads are usually click-able. Because the publishing site (ie network TV sites, online newspapers, etc) usually uses a third party ad system to serve and track...
View Article5 basic rules to better accessibility in web design.
I’m kind of a podcast fiend. So, as a web designer, it should be no surprise that I listen to the Boagworld podcast. Recently, Paul and Marcus highlighted 5 key tips to designing accessible websites....
View ArticleMagnetic fields visualized in a short film
Kind of scary to think of all of the fields that are passing through you at all times. This short film helps illustrate that thought. And it’s stellar motion graphics work as well. Magnetic Movie...
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