Not used very often these days, but every now and then you need to automatically re-direct visitors to a different URL as seamlessly as possible.
This can be achieved easily by inserting:
Tonight for the first time I am experiencing a fashion show. It is fashion week at Edmonton and my wife was really interested in going.
Having never attended a fashion show before, I thought what the hell. Why not. Fashion is a main stream media that adds billions to the world economy. There is an element of artistic skills, understanding of materials and the ability to translate a vision into something tangable.
When I started New Media Fun, my vision was to explore any type of media. And I suppose fashion fits in nicely.
Edmonton fashion week started today (sept. 18) and goes on until next weekend. If you are in the area you should check it out.
Attached are some photos I took from the iPhone. Some might be a bit shaky.
For those web developers who have the unfortunate task of designing with IE 6 in mind. Designs we encounter might make use of PNG files with transparency.
Internet Explorer 6 on its own doesn’t support PNG files with transparency. In order to make the transparencies work, you need to implement a fix that will allow the transparencies to work properly.
This is easily said than done.
A recent web design I was coding into HTML required the body of the content had to be transparent and allow the website background to show through. My challenges were that all the navigational images had to be transparent and the repeating background of the content box was semi-transparent and added a shadow around the content box.
I am a big fan of jQuery and naturally I try to find existing plug-ins that can be an effective solution to solve my problem. My search for jQuery PNG fix lead me to two possibilities:
These plug-ins are great and work well for simple PNG fixes of individual images. However, I consistently encountered issues with repeating background images. This dilemma lead me to TwinHelix.
TwinHelix’s PNG solution is unique in that it uses the CSS to call an htc file. The file iepngfix.htc is referenced in the CSS:
In my CSS, I reference to “pngIMG” class which will apply the fix to any image that requires the fix. Most importantly, this method allow me to have repeating background images displayed properly. Definitely, my first choice for fixing PNG issues.
NOTE: If you are repeating a background image, the smaller the image, the more intense the fix is on the browser. Thus a slower fix result. My solution to that is to have a broader background PNG to repeat a lot faster.
Today I started to play around with the idea of creating a box with a gradient in it. Of course I was using Adobe Livedocs to get the basic code for creating a box with a gradient fill:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | import flash.geom.* import flash.display.* var fillType:String = GradientType.LINEAR; var colors:Array = [0xFF0000, 0x0000FF]; var alphas:Array = [1, 1]; var ratios:Array = [0x00, 0xFF]; var matr:Matrix = new Matrix(); matr.createGradientBox(20, 20, 0, 0, 0); var spreadMethod:String = SpreadMethod.PAD; this.graphics.beginGradientFill(fillType, colors, alphas, ratios, matr, spreadMethod); this.graphics.drawRect(0,0,100,100); |
The confusion I was experiencing was the createGradientBox(). It wasn’t clear to me how to adjust the matrix numbers to get a result I was looking for. Fortunately, I came across a great flash file found on Poly Geek.
Gradient Tool screen shot from Poly Geek
