How To Use Multiple CSS Backgrounds, a Tutorial
Packaging Disaster with the Creative I/O USB Dongle
Let's Battle Comment Spam with a PHP/MySQL DNSBL and no CAPTCHA
Why Writing a Blogging Engine is not an Absolute Waste of Time
Another One Bites the Blog-o-Sphere — Let's Do it with Style
Branding Presidential Candidates — the McCain and Obama Campaigns
Going Public with a New Layout
Fix Apache's httpd.pid Conflict with Skype
Putting Hyperlinks in a PDF Document with Adobe inDesign
Can we say goodbye to Internet Explorer 6 yet?
Too Much White Background to Handle o___@
Tutorial Run : Outer Space Text Effect
Made a List, Checked it Twice ;D/
I've tried to keep a tab on all the features that Battle of the Bits (BotB) has had to offer both currently and in it's previous incarnation. On a few, rarer cases it can be a simple matter of compare and despair. Twas about a year ago that BotB was reborn with a new engine, still baking from scratch. So, to so righteously taunt one feature as naughty in favour of another feature, seemingly so nice, would take a heart of stone with a blind eye to cognitive dissonance. read more
posted by Langel Friday, December 25th 2009 8:47pm Comments (0)
Tutorial Run : 3D Glass (ice) Text Effect
I gave 3D Transparent Glass Text Effect a try. The whole time I was doing it, however, I was thinking "ice" instead of "glass". Yes, I have no cognitive issues! read more
posted by Langel Wednesday, December 16th 2009 12:45pm Comments (0)
posted by Langel Wednesday, December 16th 2009 9:32am Comments (0)
Once I finally saw the documentary Helvetica, I started seeing it everywhere. Days of typographical naivety fell behind me. One of the crusty designers gave a story — Microsoft saves money by creating the knock-off font Arial while Apple Computers pays out for a licensing fee. While negligible next to Comic Sans, most designers will tell you, "Arial is a farce, an epic fail." read more
posted by Langel Monday, November 16th 2009 1:26pm Comments (3)
Tutorial Run : Outer Space Text Effect
Most times, when I stumble onto a photoshop tutorial, I just skim the process and try to remember the inspiring tidbits. But this time around it looked like a fun, quick exercise. Outer Space Text Effect was published by JadGraphics. read more
posted by Langel Friday, October 23rd 2009 4:59pm Comments (7)
I took my first whack at spam. Blocking IPs was a good start but I'm still spending too much time deleting these comments. Spam seems to have no shortness on available IP addresses nor do they run out of cute things to write — read more
posted by Langel Tuesday, September 8th 2009 2:52pm Comments (237)
Fix Apache's httpd.pid Conflict with Skype
"Can not delete the httpd.pid" is what I was told, trying to start XAMPP (Windows) after my last reboot. I don't reboot very often, maybe once every three weeks. After a few internet searches I zoned in on the problem: I had installed Skype. read more
posted by Langel Saturday, September 5th 2009 2:56pm Comments (1459)