Normally, you would need to fire up a complex image editing application like Photoshop or Gimp just to perform the trivial task of resizing an picture. In that case, many people would find themselves confused by the numerous options and menus. Ingenuity to the rescue: now it is possible to resize images by either using a newbie-friendly program, called iZoom, or with one of several online applications.
Sometimes, it is easier to design pages by specifying CSS rules for each distinct HTML element, for example:
<p style="color: green">This is green text.</p>But this practice, while saving time and removing the need for meticulous planning in the early stages of a project, can prove troublesome later on, when you try to make your code more standards-compliant and, well, elegant. Enter the styles-to-classes converter.
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Fellow bloggers and internet enthusiasts, the venerable and respectable practice of maintaining personal web logs, known around these here parts as blogging, is now exactly one decade old.
Linux Magazine has published a short, yet radiant, review of the open source web page editor Quanta Plus. According to their article, which requires a free registration to view, Quanta strikes a middle ground between a WYSIWYG editor and a pure text editor.
It's OK, the title is not a type character mess-up. This is a demonstration of a nifty, if quite useless, way of presenting letters that are turned upside down. Wonders of Unicode, eh?
Over at Wikipedia Commons they have a fairly informative graphic with the evolution (or is that intelligent design) of all the web browsers from the very first one -- Mosaic, to the latest shiny pieces of web surfing software. This is the link.
Hereby, we are claiming our own Technorati Profile. With this step, the editor's blog is now registered with Technorati -- the dedicated search engine for blogs. We hope this will help to connect with people who are using Technorati to get in touch with other web design and development enthusiasts.
Who would have thought. A beta version of the latest Safari browser is available for free download from Apple's website. The browser was previously available only for MacOS, and testing on Safari traditionally posed problems for PC-based designers and developers.
You have no doubt encountered some nifty CSS tricks for creating rounded corners without images. Now there is a way to add cool rounded corners and shadow effects to images, using JavaScript.
