Post Archive

› August 31, 2001

JaneBuilder

PHP - easy as 1…2…3.

Dotico

Are you a windows user who was dismayed to find that one of the best icon resources on the web was only for mac users? If so, now you don't have to be!

mac ie5 bookmarklet

These are a few months ripened, but worth noting: handy bookmarklets for MacIE5

Reading List

Designwritings has a great Reading List, now if there was only a one-click method to make it an amazon wish list.

› August 30, 2001

CSS layout at BlueRobot

CSS layout that's ripe for the picking at BlueRobot.

› August 29, 2001

advanced css

HaTTiP to zeldman for Advanced CSS Layouts, but I'm selfishly bloging this to remember it later.

Ransens Artistic Programming Tutor

Ransens Artistic Programming Tutor looks pretty cool -- uses Python to bootstrap artists in programmatic image creation.


Till now it has been almost impossible for artists and designer to do a practical, step-by-step, no-risk, hands-on course on computer graphics programming. Thus it has also been almost impossible to appreciate how programming (which is a simply a craft, a skill) can increase creative power.Rapt teaches computer programming with one purpose in mind: to show how to write programs which create an infinite variety of images under the control of the artist.

› August 28, 2001

ie 6

There's lots of discussion about the final release IE6. [links from scottandrew]

MoOM

MoOM is the Museum of Online Museums.

› August 27, 2001

DOM 3

Preview of DOM 3.

› August 26, 2001

linkwatcher

Thanks goes out to Linkwatcher for adding webgraphics to the list. Linkwatcher, bump, this weblog, and many more are based in Atlanta - blogfest anyone?

› August 25, 2001

Google Mac search

I didn't realize there was a Mac specific Google search.

› August 24, 2001

cnn headline news layout

Over at brushstroke.tv, Jessica Helfand has some great ideas for how the recent CNN Headline News re-design should have been accomplished. Along with interesting commentary on the matter, she's backed up her ideas with alternate layouts.

translate CSS into plain english

Translate any CSS document or any CSS selectors into plain english at SelectORacle. Hmmm... this might be a good tool for diagnosing CSS problems as well.

XML, CSS, RDF tutorials and

XML, CSS, RDF tutorials and reference tools at zevon

› August 22, 2001

css layout tricks

On the 17th, a very practical article describing and detailing tips & techniques for CSS Layout was published at A List Apart. This article has inspired me to try simplifying the excessive tabling in this site's interface.

› August 21, 2001

web graphics overview

With a title like this, I feel almost obligated.

› August 19, 2001

web site tips

Shirley has been collecting web design and developing resource links, and annotating them in a well structured hierarchy.

› August 16, 2001

whitespace in the DOM

I don't mean to re-post, but glish found something worth repeating: Whitespace in the DOM

Palm buys Be

A Be in the Palm is worth two in the (insert word)?

› August 15, 2001

Beware IE SP2

IE 5.5 service pack 2 supposedly disables Quicktime for all Internet Explorer users. There is no remedy except to reinstall from the original CD. As one person in this article states, "was also designed to remove non-Microsoft product compatibility". You think? Readers, respond.

Final Fantasy Movie - DVD special

Final Fantasy: Spirits Within fans will be pleased to find a CGI remake of Michael Jackson's Thriller on the DVD release of the movie.

Illustrator X preview

Get a look at Illustrator X before Adobe's legal watchdogs pull this.

table border bookmarklet

Antenna has posted a fantastic bookmarklet for quickly toggling table borders! This will be great for html folks who are looking to see what their crazy table tags are doing to a layout.

› August 13, 2001

search well on it's way

The search box in the header of each page has so far been just a placeholder. Thanks to andy we are closing in on re-activating that powerful feature once again. The search engine currently has 1,396 websites recorded in it's database, we are completing the categorization features and backend admin tools so that those links are all that more accessible. I'll post a big note once the full text indexing search engine is back on board, meanwhile if you have any questions, feel free to contact us.

› August 10, 2001

shortcut keys in flash

Here's a great overview, almost a reminder - "hey, you can add shortcut keys to flash pieces". (repurposed right off of xblog)

evolt source code

The folks at Evolt have updated their opensource CMS source code for all to enjoy. The cold fusion based package is GPL and daniel cody reports in a post to the evolt mailing list, "I'm happy to say "It's ready.. Mostly"

Ballmer - freak out

This left me a little speechless.

› August 9, 2001

strata 3d flash export

In case the moreover news filters on the column to the right don't pickup on it, here's a little flash/3d new bite: RAViX II to power Strata 3Dpro Flash export.

› August 8, 2001

cnet - pdf virus

Cnet reports the discovery of a PDF based virus. Is nothing sacred? So far reports say that it affects Windows machines using the commercial application of Acrobat Reader. Not the freeware version, oddly enough.

Bite.Org

A really funny mac commentary site.

› August 7, 2001

work being done here

Pardon the dust, I'm doing a wide variety of code/css tweaks to get the rendering of this web site looking right on various browsers/platforms.

› August 6, 2001

svg. vs flash

Ah ha, an easy to reference comparison, and reasons to hold some faith that eventually svg will be natively supported. This svg vs. flash chart is courtesy xblog. Hmmm, spellchecker want's to change svg to savage.

› August 4, 2001

Hi-Type

In the spirit of dueling font links, HI-TYPE is your one stop shop for free screen fonts for use in Web page graphics and Flash pieces.

color pickers - please let me know

I'm midway through writing our next feature article which will about web based color pickers. Any links towards color pickers will be greatly appreciated. Just pop a message to: nsteiner@web-graphics.com. Thanks also to the noodle incident for passing along his favorite.

Lines & Splines

Of course there's always Lines & Splines for your daily dose of font news.

› August 3, 2001

the font pool

This evening I needed to find some unique fonts to work with, the fontpool has proven a great tool for the task. You can preview a string of text and see it rendered in each font - quickly. Font pool has apparently been around since '96, I only wish I found it sooner.

screenshot start

Today is apparently self-promotion day, and thanks goes out to screenshotstart.com for adding a thumbnail of this website to their cool blog list. Ooof, being placed right before xblog and zeldman makes me nervous.

linkwatcher

I've just asked Michal to add webgraphics to linkwatcher, check that site for lots of good links and notification of fresh blogs.

xbStyle and sniffing

Netscape's Dev Edge has an API called xbStyle, it's intended for cross/current/legacy-browser support of CSS. Looks like a handy method for doing some of the more fancy moving/clipping stuff with styles. It uses the practical browser sniffer which was pointed my way by andy.

Digital Photography is Still Photography

Ars Technica: Photography as an Art form An excellent overview of photography concepts for the beginning digital photographer or the experienced photographer looking to take better shots.

› August 2, 2001

Interface Usability in Flash

This article by the maintainer of the Quintus Flash Index gives some fantastic insight into the usability mistakes commonly made by Flash designers.