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Entries Tagged as 'Web Development'

Vector Magic gone commercial

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Just an update to my post on Vector Magic was a free tool from Standford that created vector images from bitmaps.  (A bitmap image is basically made of data that says make this pixel red this one green, vector images have data that says draw a green line , make a red square).  Well to [...]

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development · Websites

To Edit or Not To Edit

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments

As a long time web developer I often choose my tools by wrote.  Web tools are something that each web developer or designer has a personal take on.  Since I’ve been creating web content for about 13 years. I’ve run through a bunch of web tools and found what works and doesn’t work for me.

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Uncategorized · Web Development

Microsoft Expression Web DWT Updating

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments

I recently had  a cow-orker who was having trouble updating a DWT in Expression web.  While it looked great and the attached pages were correct, any new changes to the DWT were not applied unless she opened the page in Expression and then Updated the Selected page.   We were baffled as our understanding by [...]

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development

Image sizes and other tips. For REAL this time!

January 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Images, yes those things that speak a  thousand words.  So often are pictures are misused, abused stolen, or worse used  as after Christmas party blackmail.    But there are a few tips on using images can make your site work a LOT better.

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Tags: Web Development

Google Analytics Upgraded

December 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Google Analytics has been upgraded with new features.  And YES for free.  The infamous urchin.js  has had a makeover and new eCommerce features have been added.   But even better is the new graphing features.

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Tags: Search Engines · Web Development · Websites

StumbleUpon Button

November 7th, 2007 · No Comments

StumbleUpon is a GREAT site for discovering other websites and promoting your own.  They do have a couple ways to add sites and even have buttons of your own.  But what if you want to automatically include a button but don’t want to edit the page each time? I’ve a little javascript to do such [...]

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Tags: Web Development · Websites

Difficult CSS Layout Question

November 4th, 2007 · No Comments

I can often figure out how to make a CSS layout or in worst case patch it with tables. But this is REALLY tough… I haven’t found a way to do it. Can you? I did come up with some tricks by creating small bits in each corner but still [...]

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Tags: Web Development