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Stylin’ with sIFR

So, I’ve been working this evening. I’ve created my first couple of pages using the sIFR (scalable Inman Flash Replacement) technique.
For those of you who’ve not heard of it, sIFR allows you to replace specific targeted elements. Remember how you used to make headers for every h1/h2/h3 in Photoshop, trim to fit then do the [...]

Posted 11 June 2007 † jake § Cascading Style Sheets § Design Resources § Typography § accessibility § javascript ‡ Comments (0)

Using TinyMCE and Scriptaculous

I’ve been doing a lot of TinyMCE [1] and Scriptaculous [2] integration recently and I noticed that they don’t work together very well. I found this article [3] that explains the problem if you call scriptaculous before TinyMCE then TinyMCE won’t load.
[1] What is TinyMCE?
TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor [...]

Posted 02 May 2007 † Gareth Heyes § Geeky § javascript ‡ Comments (1)

Multiple versions of IE

We all need to test web sites as developers and designers but Microsoft makes it very difficult for us! I’ve found an application which allows you to run IE 3, 4, 5, 5.5, 6 and 7 on one machine. Why would you need the lower versions I’ll never know but the utility is pretty handy.
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

Posted 02 May 2007 † Gareth Heyes § ‡ Comments (0)

This is your Mac on drugs

Getting this site back on track to it’s original vision of helping designers (sorry Gaz, you’re too geeky!), here’s a great article dealing with the problems of Macs displaying different shades of the style colour.
http://blogs.smugmug.com/onethumb/2007/02/14/this-is-your-mac-on-drugs/
I’ve been on the receiving end of a client seeing different colours from what I could see, and it’s very difficult [...]

Posted 19 February 2007 † jake § Colour ‡ Comments (2)

Email form spam protection

How it works
First of all you need to understand how the attackers are using your web site against you. They deploy bot nets of robots to crawl the net looking for certain keywords in sites that have form submissions. This is bad because even if you block a specific IP address, they could just use [...]

Posted 11 January 2007 † Gareth Heyes § php ‡ Comments (1)

PHP security extension

http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/index.html
A fantastic tool for protecting PHP web applications, it spots SQL injections, unknown buffer overflows and as far as I know completley free and open source!

Posted 10 January 2007 † Gareth Heyes § php ‡ Comments (0)

50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006

http://smashingmagazine.com/2006/12/19/50-beautiful-css-based-web-designs-in-2006
Too good to pass up. This list really does single out why CSS is so powerful when used in the right creative hands. Some fantastic thought provoking and inspiring designs in this list, and some that are so-so… what would be in your top 50?

Posted 20 December 2006 † jake § Cascading Style Sheets § General - site related ‡ Comments (0)

Pantone to hex colour reference

http://www.logoorange.com/color/color-codes-chart.php
http://www.jydesign.com/pantone/index.htm
A useful site for agreeing on a Pantone to hex colour conversion, as Photoshop can give very different results depending on colourspace and colorsync calibrations.
Still doesn’t get round the issue of different gamma settings on different monitors…

Posted 26 October 2006 † jake § Colour § Tip–print ‡ Comments (0)