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Cool Flash Sites

Written by: hipsterdoofus at 8:47 am in the Uncategorized and Web Development category.

Couple of Flash sites to inspire The Visual Reserve and WDDG. (Using the CITE tag.)

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[Bookmark] Quotations and citations: quoting text

Written by: hipsterdoofus at 8:41 am in the Web Development category.

Article, Quotations and citations: quoting text that clarifies markup to be used for quoting and citations. I think I might’ve bookmarked a similar article before.

The thinking point for me was its mention of using the CITE tag to markup the titles of movies, books, etc. Currently I’m using the EM tag but it would seem that’s not semantically ideal. Of course, as often as I use any of these tags, I can hardly keep them straight (that’s why I need bookmarks) but CITE is one that I think I can use regularly.

Tags: HTML

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Scalable Rounded Edges

Written by: hipsterdoofus at 2:37 pm in the Web Development category.

I’m a little sour on the whole aesthetic of CSS-compliant websites - the drop shadows, the boxy layouts, the rounded corners - but it never hurts to know how it’s done. Here’s a link for Scalable Rounded Edges that I came across. I’m sure this has been covered before in other articles but I’ve never taken the time to commit the technique to memory. Probably because I’m trying not to use this design technique.

Tags: css

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Temperate Forest Foundation Website

Written by: aurelius at 4:39 pm in the Web category.

I inherited the forestinfo.org Website in 2001. One of my first projects involved implementing a redesign of the site and a restructuring of the site’s content into a more navigable structure. The redesign implemented web standards based HTML and CSS into the page templates. User interface elements included some javascript and (at the time Macromedia) Flash. The site’s framework also incorporated some Active Server Page technology.

Main layout format for TFF web pages

Alternate design differentiating the Forestry Education section of the TFF web site

www.forestinfo.org

Tags: TFF

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Another Color Scheme Generator

Written by: hipsterdoofus at 4:40 pm in the Uncategorized and Web Development category.

It’s because I don’t have my own well-developed color sense that I gravitate towards tools to figure it out for me. Here’s the latest, [ws] Color Scheme Generator 2

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Uncollapsing Margins

Written by: hipsterdoofus at 4:27 pm in the Web Development category.

It’s amazing how long I’ve gone without knowing about Uncollapsing Margins (link to: Complex Spiral Consulting). I’ve run across this problem in layouts before and never understood what was going on and spent a lot of time trying to work around it. Had I discovered this before, I could’ve saved myself a lot of time.

Tags: css

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[Bookmark] - Chaotic Fractal Tree

Written by: hipsterdoofus at 9:08 am in the Web Development category.

I had an idea over the weekend on figuring out how to draw tree branches with leaves in Flash. This link, kirupa.com - Chaotic Fractal Tree should help me along.

Tags: Flash

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AIRTIGHT - SimpleViewer Download

Written by: hipsterdoofus at 1:00 pm in the Uncategorized and Web Development category.

Someday I hope to know enough to make something like this, AIRTIGHT - SimpleViewer Download in Flash. Until then, well…

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Flash Text Notes

Written by: hipsterdoofus at 7:24 pm in the Uncategorized and Web Development category.

When parsing a text string into movieclips containing individual letters and then trying to get the .textwidth property of each successive letter it helps if you set the letter of the movieclip before you try and get its textwidth.

The inheritance is: Holder.innerTextBlock.innerText

txtString = "Example String of Text";
xPos = 0;
for (i=0; i
holder.duplicateMovieClip("holder"+i, 100 + i);
this["holder"+i]._x = xPos;
this["holder"+i].innerText = txtString.charAt(i); //

			

			
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