I surprised myself, but Firefox is slowly getting my attention over Apple’s Safari. The latest feature I love is a plug-in called AdBlock. It blocks advertising images and some of the pop-ups and pop-unders that Firefox can’t block yet. I used a list at http://www.geocities.com/pierceive/adblock/ of what to block. So far, it is working quite […]
Archive of posts filed under the Web-design category.
I thought I understood web images
Just when I thought I understood how images work on the web; the differences between GIF, JPG and PNG; and when to use each type of image; along comes a new technology: color correction. The ICC (International Color Consortium) has a standard that allows for information about how an image should render by an application. […]
Interesting Tool
I’m experimenting with RSS Digest. It takes news feeds and allows them to easily be included on other web pages.
Can’t Copy to Paste from PDF
I am researching audio formats for the Internet Caucus and found an interesting quote in a PDF. I selected the text, hit copy and got an error box asking for the document’s password so I could copy and paste. What purpose is that? I wanted to use one sentence from the file. Instead I had […]
.ico plugin for Photoshop
A very cool free! plugin for Photoshop CS: ICO (Windows Icon) Format. It’s very easy to operate.
The use of Colors on the web
An interesting article on colors on the web, Color it effective: How color influences the user, from Microsoft.
Making Favicon.ico
I can never remember how to make a favicon.ico for my websites. Simply make a 16×16 Windows bitmap at 72dpi. The settigns should be Windows bitmap, 16bit. The file is named favicon.ico at the top level of the web server’s file directory.
Firefox 1.0 Released
Yerah, finally! Firefox has been released. So far, it’s ok, but I had some problems with the NetFlix.com web site. Update: Firefox has a feature that lets you only see images that are coming from the web site you are visiting. I allowed images from “cdn.nflximg.com” and NetFlix.com is fine.
Tickets to the Prince William County Fair
I wanted to take my family to the Prince William County Fair next week. So I visited the web site to get information on hours and ticket prices. The PWC Fair is exactly backwards in how they charge for tickets. If I wait to buy tickets at the door, it is $14 per ticket (adults […]
Identical Sites?
An interesting study of the primary gurus of web design: These web sites are identical? or are they?.