I am trying to switch to the technique of 1 giant icons file. I didn’t like the opacity filter for the disabled elements. I really wanted grayscale. So I had to use duplicate images. I made a grid on my image so that the math was easy. See image here. So in my CSS, all…
From the legendary Bill Mirbach: …. so here’s today’s high-value trivia question. this “website” http://www.sigsmarketingsecrets.com/, if you can call it that, sells product. navigation …. not. is there anything other than the straight down approach that would sell more stuff? in other words, could you redesign this copy approach (including, i suppose, [a better picture…
Great article about using concatenation of images. I have been doing this for a while. For me, a major trick is to make sure that the images still look good even though they might be of varying colors. I have been considering one giant “icons” image that has all of them. I worry about the…
This problem is driving me nuts. http://www.commadot.com/jquery/simple.htm I want to make a yellow box with a red border. (Must be two divs). I want to be able to move the yellow box and change its size and still have the red border hug it tight. I asked Experts-Exchange and got no love. I joined the…
I hope I answered all the questions correctly. 🙂 Speaking of Web Design. I had this minor problem. My code looks like: <body> <div style=”border: 1px solid red; display:inline; “> <span> <img src=”anyImage.jpg” mce_src=”anyImage.jpg” border=”0″ /> </span> </div> </body> What I don’t understand is why Firefox doesn’t display properly inline. It’s supposed to hug the content.…
Well, that didn’t last long. I uninstalled Dreamweaver CS3. What a piece of garbage! Man, what the hell happened here? Macromedia (Adobe) bought a brilliant program from Nick Bradbury called Homesite. Then they proceeded to ignore Homesite and sue anyone who copied it’s innovative design. They they made Dreamweaver which systematically eliminated every single good…
I just upgraded my machine at work to Vista Business. This is the first “upgrade” that I did. All of the others, I was forced to do a clean install. The upgrade process went fine. Maybe it took a little longer than hoped (2 hours). Good thing I had other things to do. I also…
These days there is alot of news about terror. Bombs in Bagdad. Nutballs in Virginia Tech. 9/11 and Columbine still seems fresh in my mind. I think about how people react during these terrible moments of fear. The students in Virginia Tech apparently froze. They hid under the desks while the nutcase walked methodically around…
I was walking back from Ethan’s school yesterday on the sidewalk. Suddenly, I noticed the lines in the sidewalk. Without even realizing it, I had been either avoiding or hitting the lines on the purpose with my foot. In other words, I was predicting, subconsciously, whether or not my foot would hit a line and…
Drupal 5.1 is really cool. Much easier than I expected. It needs a more robust Editor, but still, very good. I made a new challenge. The hard part is going to be figuring out how to do it in all the other frameworks. Ill do my best. 🙂 Any help greatly appreciated.
After upgrading WordPress, I was feeling lucky. I got some Powweb help and uninstalled the Drupal and Joomla that had been taking up space. I then installed the new version of Drupal 5.1. It was almost TOO easy. It just worked. Wow. Anyway, I created with it the new http://js.commadot.com. This is going tobe the…
Again, the WordPress upgrade went without a hitch. This time I went from WP 2.1 to 2.1.3. It was simple and error free. Which is more than I can say for PowWeb. Their interface still thinks I am running 2.0 and gives an error when I try to “upgrade”. It also wont let me uninstall…
When working on logos, its often hard to get started. It seems there are so many logos that have been done and you want to be original. The Web2.0 Expo had a collection on their site of sponsors. For me, it was a beautiful colelction of modern logos. The logo is such a wonderful design…
The Jets have their 2007 schedule. I am making early predictions this year. God has not said these predictions would happen. But I feel that a positive attitude is the most important thing. Only 2 weeks till draft day. I can feel the excitement. April 28-29 Draft Pick 25 – Defense – Ok, Ill make…