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My Beautiful Copy of Oliver Twist
I couldn’t resist buying this book, even though I already have it. Who says that eBooks are the way forward?
Tagged books
HDR Software Tricks in Photoshop
HDR photography can be faked in software such as Photoshop, quickly and easily, by duplicating layers and applying different blending modes.
XPro Cross Processing in Photoshop
Simulate cross processing (XPro) of film using curves and adjustments layers in Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5.
Tagged cross processing, curves, photoshop
Speed-Testing Sites with Trickle
Using the command-line tool Trickle to diagnose some pesky file upload problems and keep an eye on how your site performs when users visit it over a slow connection.
Compressing PNG Images with Posterize
The PNG format has an ever-growing place in Web design, especially now that the number of IE6 users is starting to drop. All modern browser support the format and its alpha transparency, which makes it very handy for use in …
Tagged optimization, PNG, posterize
Google Translations in Google Analytics
Recently on one of the sites I manage, I noticed a lot of pages showing up in Google Analytics that were not a part of the site. These all began with the word “translate” and were of course regular pages …
Tagged analytics, filters, google, translation
ZenCoding: Shorthand for HTML
Let’s face it, endlessly bashing out HTML is a pain. Even with the advent of automatic tag-closing in certain editors, I still spend far too much time typing tags and changing indentation so that it’s readable to me later on. …
Building an Ajax Search Bar
Web Designer magazine have put one of the articles I wrote for them on Building an Ajax Search Bar up on their site. Originally published in Issue 159 of the magazine, this was part of a series introducing designers to …
Zooming Backgrounds in Internet Explorer
Something I was struggling with recently was a quirk in how Internet Explorer zooms in and out on content. All browsers allow you to zoom in and out of a page (usually using Cmd / Ctrl and the +/- keys). …
Tagged accessibility, backgrounds, internet explorer, zooming
Galvanize: Google Analytics without the Javascript
Galvanize is a PHP class for the Google Analytics service that allows you to track page views without the need for Javascript code. Use to to track non-HTML-based content such as podcasts, RSS feeds, downloadable files or anything else that …
Tagged galvanize, google analytics, seo