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Creating Transparent favicon in Photoshop
I’ve found a handy little plugin for Photoshop that lets you save files out in the .ICO format – handy for making favicons for your website! http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/ Download the “ICO (Windows Icon) Format” in Mac or Windows format, unzip and copy the “ICOFormat.8bi” file into your “File Formats” plugin folder located in “C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Photoshop […]
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Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Website
I’ve been watching/listening to October 07’s FOWA presentations and the latest one I’ve heard – by Yahoo’s Steve Souders – struck me as worth a quick look. Who wouldn’t want to speed up their websites? Steve describes 14 rules that make up a ‘best practices for speeding up your website’: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html And there’s also a […]
Epic Failure
My new favouritest website ever. http://failblog.org/ “This is a site for sharing all things that FAIL with the world.” Brilliant!
DS_Store, dot underscore (._), resource forks and annoyed Windows users
If any of you out there, like me, work in a Windows environment but have colleagues or friends who insist on using Macs, you will probably have noticed a whole load of extra hidden files scattered around your network. That a familiar sight to anyone? 🙁 The .DS_Store is similar to the thumbs.db file Windows […]
Zebra-striping; good, bad or indifferent?
Here’s a lovely article I just read that explains how we might as well carry on with the age old convention of ‘zebra-striping’ on tables – that may or may not make it easier for users to find data in our tables, but who like it anyway. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/zebrastripingdoesithelp
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