Loads of news coming out from Adobe this week as they hold their Annual Beanfeast MAX. There was the obligatory Photoshop pixel fairy magic. The one that got people most excited appeared to be the ‘deblur’ tool. Expect this to replace the Content Aware Fill as the killer Photoshop demo to wow your audience. But…
Read MoreEveryone knows how to use Photoshop right? Wrong. In my experience plenty of people have access to Photoshop and ‘dabble’ with it, but perhaps aren’t using this powerful application to its full potential. My tips are unashamedly aimed at web designers / developers. 1. Set Photoshop Up to be Web Friendly Before you start let’s…
Read MoreAlways fun to see what Auntie Beeb will come up with their redesigns. The Beta site makes use of jQuery to place a very large carousel in what is a very boxy design. They have gone for a 976px width for the main content but no responsive design. The Beeb Luuuve the iPad They luuuve…
Read MoreFollowing on from my Ten Techie Terms post here are some more jargon busting goodies. 1. Web Standards Web Standards represents the holy grail for web designers/developers. Essentially as web designers/developers we build web pages with a profusion of technologies. The fruit of this hard labour is then viewed in a whole cacophony of…
Read MoreGoogle have announced on their Geo Developers Blog that they are deprecated support for the Flash based Maps API. They claim this is so they can focus more resources on the JavaScript Maps API v3. The Flash API was introduced back in 2008 when Flash was probably at its peak. The decline of Flash, is in…
Read MoreA Nice feature in IE9 is the F12 Developer Tool. Testing in IE7 and IE8 is always a bit of a chore. But you are running windows and have IE9 installed then you can use the Developer Tool. To open it hit F12. Very similar to Firebug for Firefox but does have the ability to…
Read MoreHave a look here for some little experiments with <canvas> in HTML5. Canvas Clock Rotating Cheese with Canvas Here is the code I produced. Canvas Clock Rotating Cheese Inspired by reading the Canvas Tutorial on Mozilla MDN.
Read More“Live Long and Prosper” As you move into the world of the web you will need to learn some new vocabulary. In the web world there are a range of technologies, acronyms and disciplines that can confuse the newbie (there’s one already – newbie – personage new to the technology). Here are ten to help…
Read MoreI was a bit of a twit until I discovered twips. When positioning display objects in Actionscript we use the x and y properties. These related to pixels. But what if you need half a pixel or 0.12345 of a pixel. Flash does allow you to position object using ‘twips’. A twip is 1/20 of…
Read MoreWow. Look at this (if you are using Chrome): http://helloracer.com/webgl/ Carlos Ulloa who is already well known for Papervision 3D has now produced an amazing example of webGL built using three.js. And if that isn’t enough wow’s already, then here another bit of HTML5/CSS3 magic. CSS Icons created with no images. Best viewed in Chrome…
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