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Disabling Skypes pesky phone number formatting
One nice thing about modern browsers is the ability to extend functionality by installing add-ons. However not all add ons play well with your websites and can actually change the intended look and feel a designer slaved over.
Skype, a nice application does just that. When installing the application, a plugin is added to your web browser that adds interactivity to phone numbers on web pages. A nice little feature if your not interested in the look and feel of sites that you visit. Of…
Read more...Web editing is a little bit different than document editing.
The 'Paste from Word' button was created to help work out any problems when converting between the two
Small and often forgotten, this button is invaluable to the avid blogger or editor.
Web Editing
When adding content to a website, often with blogs, many people will write the content first in Word (or another text editor). This helps get rid of a lot of the worries of web editing; having your page time out when you save, losing your work, needing to know HTML, formatting, etc. Unfortunately it is easy to forget that Word is not a web editor and formatting in Word is different from formatting on the web.
In Word you can set fonts, colours, sizes, and other text properties…
Read more...Page load times are affected by the number of requests as well as the size of the content. Page load times can be reduced by reducing the number of image requests.
How can we reduce the number of image requests, without actually removing images?
Simple, join multiple image files and save as one image, then use CSS to make sure that the image displays properly.
Example 1: You have two separate background images. Image A and B. We can place the images either side by side or top to bottom.
Side by Side: AB
How to display image A: Display the image but limit the width to width of image A. B will not show up.
How to display image B: Negative position the image…
Read more...PNG, GIF, JPEG
Choosing the right image format can be tricky, especially when you need to consider file size and quality. Not to mention issues like browser compatability and operating system gamma correction. We won't get into that this time around...
First we will begin with something simple. Improving our vocabulary and a quick reference guide to compare file size and quality based on format.
Pronunciation
GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
The author of the file format GIF pronounces the acronym with a …
Read more...What browsers are people using these days? Below is a report from our website to give you an idea.
Using Google Analytics (this is a FREE service from Google) you can gather these stats for your site.
Check out our wiki page for details about setting up Google Analytics for your IGLOO site.
Internet Explorer - of the 38.94%
- Version 7 - 73.46%
- Version 6 - 24.76%
- Version 8 - 1.79%
Firefox - of the 38.13%
- Version 3 - 91.82%
- Version 2 - 8.18%
Where to go to find what files are supported throughout IGLOO.
If you're interested in knowing what file types are supported when entering documents, pictures, or media, have no fear! They are all conveniently listed/linked here:
Video Codecs
- MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4
- H.263, H.264, VC-1, Flash
- DV25, DV50, DVCPro
- DPS, DivX, JPEG 2000
- DNxHD, AVCIntra
- Image Sequences
- Windows Media, RealVideo
Media Containers
- HDV
- MXF (including D-10/IMX)
- MPEG-2 PS, MPEG-2 TS
- GXF, LXF, QuickTime
- WMV, ASF, AVI, VOB
- 3GPP, 3G2
- WMA, WAV, Broadcast WAV
Audio Codecs
- PCM, MP3,…
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These blogs are meant to help you build and enhance your community’s appearance as well as its public perception using design as your tool.
Article by Alicia Sanchez
Common icon sizes for the web are:
| 16px X 16px | 32px X 32px | 48px X 48px |
Icons are a great way to portray an idea quickly. There are icons that are so widely used on the web that many people no longer need text alongside them to know what they mean. Here are a few examples:
Ema… |
These blogs are meant to help you build and enhance your community’s appearance as well as its public perception using design as your tool.
By Alicia Sanchez
Below is a list of acceptable file formats for web graphics and photos to help you achieve the best results visually as well as reducing file size for your online community.
.jpg
.gif and .png
GIFs and PNGs are used for flat-color images like logos, buttons, and…
Read more...These blogs are meant to help you build and enhance your community’s appearance as well as its public perception using design as your tool.
By Alicia Sanchez
Imagery Part 1: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Ever wondered why an image you've uploaded to your site looks out of focus or slightly fuzzy like this...
...rather than like this image?
On the web images should be uploaded at their actual size (100%) in RGB colour mode, not sized-down or sized-up, this is the best practice for maximum quality imagery.
If you have to re-size an image and you don't have photo editing software it's always best to size-down an image rather than size-up (you…
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