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Creating Transparent favicon in Photoshop

Jon — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:01:25 +0000

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 Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Plug-Ins\File Formats”. If you have Photoshop open, save your work, close it and start it again.

You should now see “ICO (Windows icon) (*.ICO)” in the “Format” menu when you try to save a file.

Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Website

Sii — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:53:21 +0000

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 way to use the Firefox add-in, Firebug in combination with YSlow to analyse your sites based on the 14 rules: http://www.getfirebug.com/ and http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

We’ve been planning a css/js cache for a while now, but never got it off the ground, still seems that a few of the other rules could provide a good return on little investment.

Epic Failure

Jon — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:32:03 +0000

My new favouritest website ever.

http://failblog.org/

“This is a site for sharing all things that FAIL with the world.”

Brilliant!