Category: Graphics


I was searching for a slideshow script with captions and discovered Slideshow2 this week – it’s a Javascript/Mootools application and I’ve just installed it on a new site.  Not working in IE yet but I know this is due to a mistake I’ve made – the demo works fine.

This script has options to do justabout everything; nice captioning, fade-ins, slide-ins, thumbnails in various positions, the zoom-in effects… I foresee a lot of use of this script. Here’s the demo site.

I’m always interested in finding new ways to make footers more useful and attractive. Christian Watson had a nice article featuring 76 (!) examples of approaches to footers. A lot of good ideas here.

An inspiring look at some really cool pixel-based designs.

Found a nice color tool this morning – it extracts multiple color palettes from any image you upload or from a random image it pulls from Flickr.

I found a nice online color tool today – a full Pantone chart with RGB and HTML conversions.

I’ve tried various clunky fixes for the IE6 PNG transparency problem, but yesterday ran across a wonderful little script from Angus Turnbull (from 2005, but no matter).

I tried it yesterday on a CSS background image and it works like a charm, but ran into some problems today trying to use it on a floated image.

Here’s the thing: when using it for a background image, follow the directions under ‘Transparent Backgrounds’ here and it works perfectly. But when you use it for a foreground image, you have to have a blank .gif file on the server, and you have to edit one line in Angus’ .htc file to point to that blank .gif.

This info is not obvious at all and I was really confused until I read Angus’ page thoroughly. But after loading the blank .gif and editing the iepngfix.htc file, all was well.

This is one of the easier implementations of a PNG fix I’ve seen. It uses the ‘behavior’ property in CSS, a Microsoft-proprietary thing and won’t affect browsers that already support PNG’s correctly.

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