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BittBox!

Posted by James - 06/06/07 at 10:06:26 pm

BittBox exploded onto the scene in January* and has quickly established itself. It always looks stunning, has high quality content, covering topics related to Graphics and Web design, and often with a smattering of nice freebies and tutorials. It’s quite inspirational, and I like to watch the RSS. So, umm… check it out.

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Website screenshots made easy.

Posted by James - 05/06/07 at 01:06:50 pm

Really easy, in fact. www.websitescreenshots.com has a downloadable program by Nathan Moinvaziri which is simply awesome. It ties into Internet Explorer, and uses it to capture a full or part screenshot of any website. It has all the native features your own Internet Explorer has, so Flash and Javascript and the like, all the features you need (cropping, resizing, resampling) and even full-page view. It’s also free. (but without command line abilities) I found it while searching for some sort of wordpress plugin to replace my reliance on the Snapshots rollovers. Oh, I know such a plugin could exist, but it doesn’t. Even so, getting screenshots on the web is now as easy as Open WebShot > Enter URL > Capture > Upload > Send to Editor > Publish.

Flash, 16bit colour, blendModes and cacheAsBitmap. A recipie for disaster?

Posted by James - 05/06/07 at 01:06:12 pm

Apparently so. Continue reading Flash, 16bit colour, blendModes and cacheAsBitmap. A recipie for disaster?…

EveryStockPhoto

Posted by James - 04/06/07 at 04:06:17 pm

Following up on yesterdays’ post, there’s perhaps an even better way to find yourself some free stock imagery. Everystockphoto is a search engine that pulls its images from a range of online imagebanks, all free of course. Amongst them are sites like Stock.xchng and flickr. It even utilizes OpenSearch to make it even more useful.

The downside of using EveryStockPhoto however, is that you can’t instantly be sure of the liscensing permissions of the images, and you have to look into it yourself, which can take a little longer than simply searching on places like Stock.xchng. Plus, the search results are often full of amateur photography results pulled from flickr (most of which are tagged in some stupid way for a stock repository) But, where there’s volume, there’s more of a chance that your obscure search results will dredge up something.

Stock Exchange

Posted by James - 03/06/07 at 03:06:02 pm

Free stock photos? Easy. Stock.xchng (www.sxc.hu) is a lovely little website that offers you just that. There’s a little bit of liscensing on some images, and you have to register (for free, however) to view the full-size images, but that’s all. It’s cunningly tied into their sister site, stock.xpert, which is of course, stuff you have to pay for.

More than just validation…

Posted by James - 01/06/07 at 10:06:25 pm

Validation. It’s an important element to production of those pesky websites. Probably more important and more awkward than it should be. No, scratch that, deffinately more awkward than it should be. But that’s not all there is to making a decent website, oh no sir. Content, variety, conformity, tracking. I wish we got to work with clients who grasp this stuff a little better. – But then, perhaps we need to explain things better?

Sitescore, from Silktide, has just appeared back on the scene. (they were ‘down’ for a few weeks while they upgraded their services) Few online validation tools can be used on their own, and Sitescore is one of those. Continue reading More than just validation……

Reigning in your linkspam

Posted by James - 01/06/07 at 10:06:56 pm

Or, more specifically, how I decided to reign in mine.

Hyperlinks are the fundimental element of the World Wide Web. They’ve been in it from the start, and without them, well, it wouldn’t be a web, would it?
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