Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category
Monday, April 21st, 2008 |
Upload .psd designs, download .html file and images. It’s that simple to create CSS compliant webpages.

Some web designers may not have fully knowledge to master CSS, and many of us are good enough with little bit of brushing and designing in PhotoShop. Now, I found a great website, PSD to CSS Online, which provide free service to convert PhotoShop creations into CSS pages online.
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 |

If you want to install and set up a dynamic web server with Apache, a lot of applications such as Apache web server, mySQL database, PHP and Perl scripting language, and not to mention important extensions and tools to manage the web server’s applications. It’s not a easy and simple task. But luckily, there is XAMPP from Apache Friends.
XAMPP is a collection of free software applications for installing and using the Apache Web server. There are different combination of applications depending on which XAMPP distributions. Currently there are four type of XAMPP distributions available: XAMPP for Linux (previously known as LAMPP), XAMPP for Windows, XAMPP for Mac OS X, XAMPP for Solaris. Typically, XAMPP is a full featured AMPP (Apache MySQL, PHP, Perl), an Apache distribution that includes the Apache Web server, MySQL database, PHP, Perl, FTP server and phpMyAdmin, with several other important and commonly used extension built-in, such as SSL.
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 |
Live HTTP headers - tinyurl.com/yvmhkf
This extension shows you the raw HTTP headers that a webserver returns. It’s very handy for debugging issues with 404s, redirect, monitoring cookies and so on.
Greasemonkey - tinyurl.com/ynvmda
Greasemonkey is a useful tool that lets you write scripts to modify different websites. It enables you to change the way a website displays and install different scripts to customise HTML pages.
RefreshBlocker - tinyurl.com/2wz2k2
This extension will prevent your browser from following the forwarding specified by the refresh parameter of the META tag element. It can also be handy for debugging.
ShowIP - tinyurl.com/3xj8r5
Show you the IP address of a website and allow you to copy it to the clipboard. It also allows querying custom services by IP (right mouse button) and Hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard.
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 |
You don’t like to scroll? Be prepared. (We warned you.)
Every now and again designers stumble upon the very same problem: the choice of a unique and beautiful typeface which manages to fulfill three basic tasks. Support the corporate identity, enrich the visual appearance and is compatible with the overall design. However, usually there are simply too many options you can consider, which is why you need time to find the option you are most comfortable with. Although the choice usually depends on clients’ requirements, it is necessary to have some pretty starting points for your font decision.
So which typefaces are “bulletproof”? What fonts can be used effectively in almost every Corporate Design? And what are the options for unique, but still incredibly beautiful typefaces?
We have answers. Over the last few days we’ve browsed through dozens of type foundries, read dozens of designers’ articles about typography, analyzed font rankings and visited bookmarked font-related suggestions. So this post has ‘em all. Well, OK, at least many of them.
Let’s take a look at over 80 gorgeous typefaces for professional design, based upon suggestions from designers and web-developers all over the world. Most screenshots are taken from the foundries and provided specimens - particularly on Veer.com and Fontshop.com.
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