Category Archives: Web Design

Take Colour Scheme from a webpage

When you want to find out the basic colour scheme or base a colour scheme on a photograph colr.org is handy – I have a self-written similar script which psychologically helps pages pretty factor considerably.

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Browser Compatability Checking

Checking out your latest web development browser compatibility is an important thing to do, the following will help you check all the important browsers out on your own box (vmware will help you achieve all as you need macosx for multiple safari.)

http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone
http://browser.netscape.com/
http://michelf.com/projects/multi-safari/
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/
http://www.apple.com/safari/
http://www.google.com/chrome
http://www.oldapps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=213
http://www.thesitewizard.com/webdesign/multiplebrowsers.shtml

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Fixing the Web with GNU

I think fixing the web is a solid idea and more people should take securing their important stuff seriously, school boy errors affect more than school boys.

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Pure CSS dropdowns

As users catch up with browser versions this wont be an issue but with everyone so javascript paranoid its nice to have a fallback noscript Pure CSS menu in the wings. This is an excellent example.

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OpenFlash Charts

Thought I had already posted the fantastic Open Source Flash Charts but apparently not! – Also FusionCharts are good but only if you want to spend a few hundred pounds.

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3 Useful Web Programs

Its always the most obvious and useful ones I forget..
PSPad (Supreme text editor for everything from hex to html to js to asp to everything else)
FileZilla (you need nothing else for anything ftp)
XAMPP (Apache web server in a tiny exe – includes filezilla ftp server – very useful)

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Modalbox

Seems like all i do these days is make things appear and dissapear with javascript!
But who can beat a bit of AJAX in a nice modal box eh?

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Not ideal but if you do want to..

Messing with images after the page loads with Javascript can be the most strait forward way of doing things, although it does lead to the end user needing the js to be on. Can reduce server loading times but also can make images slightly less crisp in my experience.
Still…Javascript image manipulation
<lateR> theres also this

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Javascript and Flash Photo Galleries

The day where I need a new flash gallery has come around again so heres a good place to find them if your not building your own!

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Opera Give us some STandards

Excellent reading on web standards – and indeed creating websites for beginners
Brought to you by the awesome links of  blackhatseo

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