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Creating an Icon with Photoshop

Posted by James - 21/07/07 at 10:07:25 am

I just upgraded to CS3 (finally!), yet I’m still dissappointed by the lack of support for Icon files. Especially now that favicons are so in vogue now. Fear not though, because Open-source plugins are to the rescue!

Very easily, you can now save out both normal and package icons from Photoshop, with the addition of the plugins available from Telegraphics.

It’s about time I had a proper favicon for this site, so I stole some inspiration from Adobe and added my own little twist. Voila!

2 Smashing Flash Websites…

Posted by James - 20/07/07 at 08:07:46 pm

DONTCLICK.IT and pr0jects are a couple of outstanding Flash-based sites I’ve come across this month.

 

 

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Little HTML mysteries… alt vs. title

Posted by James - 18/07/07 at 08:07:20 pm

This is something that I’ve had a wee bit of an issue with recently, but I thought I’d mention it now. Why not, eh?

For the uninitiated, alt tags are alternative text, a label if you will, that is used to explain the content of an image, when images are blocked or you’re on some rubbishy connection. (or a non-standard or non-desktop browser like mobile web) Alt tags are also a basic requirement of the W3C WAI guidelines, and must be included for Accessible websites - something that is most important for UK based websites - which have to be accessible, under UK Disability Discrimination laws.

Title tags on the other hand, Continue reading Little HTML mysteries… alt vs. title…

Auto-matic Link Icons

Posted by James - 10/07/07 at 06:07:17 pm

CSS 2.1 has many new wonderful capabilities, and I’m going to show you one of my latest tricks I’ve picked up - automatic link icons.

First, a look at the end result :-

This is a normal link.

This is an external link.

This is a link to a MS Word document.

This is a .zip file.

(don’t bother clicking the links though - they’re empty)

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MMT Digital relaunched!

Posted by James - 09/07/07 at 02:07:26 pm

Well, it’s been a ‘lil while in the making, but on Friday 6th, MMT Digitals’ New, Improved, and rather more snazzy website was unleashed upon the World Wide Web. Go have a look over at www.mmtdigital.co.uk.