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Entries from April 2004

Product Photography on the Cheap

Product Photography on the Cheap—shows a few ideas for setting up a light box at home for small product shots. This could be handy for items you’re selling on Ebay or for items you’d like to use in your web designs.

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April 29th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography · Web Dev

CSS Is Easy!

CSS Is Easy!—a good introductory article that shows just how easy CSS really is.

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April 26th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

Web Design References: Cascading Style Sheets

Web Design References: Cascading Style Sheets—a thorough list of CSS resources.

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April 26th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

Image Rotator

Hiveware - Image Rotator—a dash of php to rotate images on each page reload.

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April 26th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Design · PHP · Web Dev

WordPress tagging article

Tagging Series: Volume One—a good introduction to WordPress tags for those converting from MovableType.

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April 21st, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: MovableType

Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal

Design inspiration and how to find it and use it—Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal

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April 16th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Design · Web Dev

Relative Font Sizes

Give font size control to the user of your website with this solution from A List Apart—Power To The People, Relative Font Sizes.

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April 16th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS · Design · Web Dev

Card sorting for information structure

Here’s a thorough article on card sorting for the purpose of designing the structure of information. This would be helpful for structuring a site’s navigation.

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April 15th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Design · Web Dev

Color Toy

A very handy color tool for web design—Color Toy

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April 12th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Design · Web Dev

PDFCreator

PDFCreator, released under GPL is a very good, free PDF creation utility that’s as easy to use as printing. No unwanted advertisements embedded in your PDF or pop-up advertisements like some of the other “free” PDF creation utilities out there.

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April 10th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Software

PhotoLog Scripts

This could come in handy when I’m ready to add a photolog to my main site.
PhotoLog Scripts

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April 10th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Photography · Web Dev

WebCalendar

PHP based calendar application that could double as an events calendar—k5n.us: WebCalendar

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April 9th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: CMS · PHP · Web Dev

Global Listings MT Extension

Global Listings Extension 2.0.2 - a great looking plugin to pull the content of several MovableType powered blogs onto one page.

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April 9th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: CMS · MovableType · Web Dev

Qdig - Quick Digital Image Gallery

This PHP based image galary tool looks promising: Qdig - Quick Digital Image Gallery
And here it’s being used on a MovableType powered site: manalang.com: Embedded Movable Type Photo Gallery
It would be interesting to see this used in WordPress. I may try it out soon.

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April 9th, 2004 · 1 Comment | Tags: CMS · MovableType · PHP · Photography

PmWiki

I haven’t had need for a wiki but this one is written with PHP and looks interesting and just may come in handy some day—so I link to it here: PmWiki

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April 9th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: CMS · PHP · Wikis

XP and NT Registry optimization, backup and restore

NT Registry Optimizer and The Emergency Recovery Utility NT - A bit dated software but still useful. They work great for registry optimization, backup and restore on XP.
ERUNT and NTREGOPT

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April 9th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: System Help

Flexible layout template

A good three column flexible Layout with header and footer. (So I’ll know where to find it when I need it.)

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April 7th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS · Web Dev

Random images with php

Here’s one way to do random images. This is a hack being used on a WordPress powered blog at imagesafari.com.

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April 7th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: PHP · Web Dev

How much is too much content

Gerry McGovern asserts that if you’re publishing content unrelated to your sites purpose it’s too much.
Read the article—Are you publishing too much on your website?

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April 5th, 2004 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev