Archive for the 'Web' Category

Oddity Cinema

This is one of my favorite website right now, Oddity Cinema is more than just a great website full of amazing reviews and horror movie news.

Yahoo Maps API for Action Script 3

Coming soon to a web site near you! The new Yahoo! API (Application Programming Interface) is a great way to imbed Yahoo! maps into your Flex and Flash SWFs. You’ll have to sign up for a free key to get started, and it comes with all the widgets you’ll need.

http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/maps/

My Top Ten WordPress Plugins

WordPressAs many of you know, WordPress is one of the most expandable blogging and content management tools on the market today and it's free (thanks Matt!). There are a lot of great plugins out there for WP, many of which I couldn't run a live site without.

Web Sites for Artists

We had a great meeting of the Fredericton Designers Group in which I promised a number of the new members to post a little more details about web hosting, websites and web marketing. This tutorial is meant as a high level introduction to the concepts of hosting a website for artists.

Adobe Dreamweaver Tip - Cleaning Up Unused Files

Here's a great tip for Dreamweaver users, ever finish a website design and then not know which files are active and which are not? It happens to me all the time, lots of spare graphics, even some HTML or PHP files that are simply not in use anymore. So how do I clean them out?

Google Helps Answer the Age old Question …

getElementById does id existAs with most programmers, I’ve often pondered the deep theological questions of our times. Apparently, so has Google.

Link of the Day - Logo Blog

Here’s a great web site for all those aspiring logo designers out there, it has a great collection of logo samples as well as some wonderfully funny fake logos.

http://www.logoblog.org/

Link of the Day - CSS and Web Standards

This tutorial teaches CSS using both hand-coding and Style Master for Windows. You can also follow it using instructions for Style Master for Mac OS X. By working through the exercises you will learn all about CSS for text styling and page appearance including layout, and create a stylish looking page like this. If you want to learn CSS by hand-coding alone, simply work through all the exercises and code examples and skip all the

Link of the Day - CSS No Crap Primer

This is a down and dirty, only the facts ma’am, very quick tutorial. Please understand that this is just the barest of surface scratching, but I am hoping it will kick start you to the concept. Once you have that, all the other info on the Web makes sense. I’m assuming you know nothing, because someone reading this may know exactly that, so don’t be insulted if I cover what you have known for months.

Link of the Day - Trevor Morris Photographics

When I settled into the office this morning I started researching Adobe Photoshop short cuts for what was going to be a top ten list of great short cuts everybody should know but as I did so, Trevor Morris kept coming up in the search results and links from other great resources and after reading a handful of his articles I think it’s fair to say that the best thing a young designer can do