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building with layers and pngs

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Traditionally, when cutting up a Photoshop layout, we all used to think of the entire thing like a jigsaw puzzle. Overlapping elements were an illusion because the element that appeared to overlap was really being cut up and then fit back together.

And then came the png. While the PNG most definitely has issues across the different browsers, there are ways to get it to play nicely with whatever site being built. Yes, it usually involves a CSS hack. No, it does not validate. However I believe it is more important to start thinking of a layout as a series of layers overlapping, versus the traditional jigsaw puzzle.
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mytube wordpress plugin

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

So far WordPress has been impressing me left and right. The plugin developers are building some amazing stuff that integrates so well that my job of building the site becomes effortless. My good friend Nicholas Galanin wanted to have his YouTube videos pull into his site. While there was definitely assumption on my behalf that there would be someone out there that had developed a plugin, there was still uncertainty.

Enter MyTube.

Some guy named VaamYob created this plugin for reasons he states on his site, “This is a plugin that I wrote because I thought videos would look cool on my site. ” While VaamYob did a great job with the plugin, the documentation across the net was sparse. I decided to give a quick rundown of how I integrated MyTube into http://www.nicholasgalanin.com.
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.png goodness

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Internet Explorer 7 has me excited. Why? It isn’t the shiny new UI which has folks asking, “where did my buttons go?” It is the PNG Support! No longer will I have to litter my CSS with IE hacks to get them working. I know CSS well enough to avoid the usual Internet Explorer pitfalls, but I still have * html … for PNGs.

I’m wondering when it will be ok to drop the PNG hack entirely and tell people if they want to see the sites, upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 (or firefox). As I have still received complaints that sites don’t look good on Internet Explorer 5.5 on a Mac, it will probably be awhile.

For those who don’t know the hack it looks a little like this:
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six stellar free ways to market your site

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

There are those folks out there who do great work, speak at panels, and have a loyal following of admirers. And then there are those who would like to be doing something similar, yet can’t seem to get the traffic they so desire.

Since the launch, of what James Hall defines as a “bloatfolio” (i believe he has a new one coming any day now), I have been engaged in a few practices that I believe are succesful traffic drivers to this site.

What follows is a list of what I have done to drive traffic. I was toying with the idea of making it a top ten list, but I think I will save my big top ten list for, “Top 10 reasons why I am the most amazing blogger on the internet” post. Ha! Anyhow…
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Using flickr, magpie, and litebox to build a picture gallery.

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

If one were to go to my homepage they would see my flickr feed on the right hand side, maybe below if they’re surfing on a tiny lil screen or have insanely high resolution.

When I relaunched my portfolio about three weeks ago, the flickr feed looked just as it does now. But behind the scenes a few things have changed. Namely the way I am pulling the feed in, and more recently my edition of litebox.

What follows is how I was able to achieve this and why I decided to do it.
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