I’ve spent the evening playing with ArtRage 2, a great little painting application which I discovered via Bzangy Groink. It’s purely a painting program as opposed to a Photoshop wannabe, and does a brilliant job of creating paint effects. Thick paint smears and blends, pencils and chalks smudge, and markers work just like they do [...]
Well I’ve finally taken the plunge and updated my iBook to run Tiger. Don’t want to tempt fate, but it seems to have gone smoothly. It’s definitely more memory-hungry than Panther, but does feel slightly faster overall. Spotlight’s a welcome addition, although I think it needs a little more work. I feel fairly ambivalent about [...]
Time to have a bit of a clear out of my web design-related bookmarks — you’ll have to excuse their rather random nature… Doug Bowman wrote a little piece about using flags to help organise your CSS, which John Oxton followed up with a nice example of how he does things. Scott McDaniel demonstrates how [...]
We had a call from a client the other day regarding the e-commerce site we’re developing for them. They had a query about the page that shows all the top levels of product categories, and the conversation went something like this — Client: Are you going to put product thumbnails for each of the main [...]
I’ve been up to my eyeballs in Flash lately so haven’t really had the time to post. Thankfully the project’s almost finished, as I’ve had about as much Flash as I can take for now. Yes it can do some quite cool stuff, but Actionscript still seems frustratingly primitive compared to a proper server-side scripting [...]
Oh dear, Mcromedia has been bought by Adobe – don’t suppose there’ll be any getting away from Flash and PDFs now. Sadly it’ll probably mean the demise of Freehand, which I’ve been using since version 3 (back when it was owned by Aldus) and generally find much more useful than Illustrator. I just hope they [...]
With all the work we’ve got on at the moment, I’ve not really had the time to post lately. Of course my new iBook’s consumed quite a bit of my free time as well: learning how best to do things in OS X, getting the necessary applications set up how I like them, and generally [...]
There’s an interesting article over at Wired suggesting that the Wall Street Journal is in danger of becoming irrelevant because it charges people to view its articles online. Because you have to subscribe to access both current news articles and the archive, the Journal is leaving only a faint footprint in cyberspace… I googled “Enron” [...]
So we’re going to get a new version of IE before Longhorn – IE6 SP3 IE7. To misappropriate a Bill Hicks line, great, now there’s another version of IE I won’t be using. I can just imagine the scenes at Redmond – Steve: Loads of home users are ditching Explorer ‘cos it’s so buggy and [...]
With my purchase of an iBook looking imminent, I’ve started thinking about Mac equivalents for some of the software I use on a regular basis. There’s no problem as far as PHP is concerned, as Zend IDE is available for the Mac too, as are the usual suspects from Macromedia and Adobe. However for MySQL [...]
I was having a bit of a clearout of my bookmarks today, hence the fairly random nature of these web design/development links: Panic Goods has got a lovely little drag and drop shopping cart interface — I particularly like the puff of smoke when you drag an item out of the basket. Sadly it doesn’t [...]
When it comes to laying out forms there’s a lot to be said for tables. However, it can be done using CSS, for example using the method outlined by Peter-Paul Koch at Quirksmode. Now I’ve just stumbled across Anthony Eggert’s way of laying out valid, accessible forms too – very impressive. The javascript to hide [...]
Atomic Playboy has written a great little article on using Apache’s mod_security to block blog spam. Also worth a read is another article on reducing referrer spam using htaccess. The Register has an interview with a professional blog spammer, if you fancy seeing someone failing to justify their actions.
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