Posts Filed as Tutorials

Photoshop Screencast: Creating Torn Edges

May 28th, 2010

I was recently working on a project and came up with a decently automated solution for creating grunge torn edges in photoshop…and here it is:

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Photoshop Screencast: How to use the defringe tool

May 27th, 2010

I was working on an email blast for a client when I remembered how effective the defringe tool is, and though I don’t explain it too thoroughly in this screencast, it might be helpful for you.

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My first guest post at buildinternet.com

April 26th, 2010

I wrote the third part of the embeddable mp3 players series over at buildinternet.com. Those guys graciously allowed me to geek out on their blog. Since they get way more traffic than I do, I think more people will find it useful. You can see how they make me look good here: http://buildinternet.com/2…

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Absolutely positioned div disappears in IE6.

September 25th, 2009

What is up with this? I really hate IE6, but this is so incredibly stupid that you have to do this. The problem is that if you have an absolutely positioned item next to a floated item, the absolutely positioned item mysteriously disappears. I spent a half-hour working on this before finding a resource…

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Styling Blockquotes with Psuedo classes

August 28th, 2009

Ok, so a few years ago I was fairly new to working with CSS and XHTML, and found it really frustrating that I couldn’t use two background images  to place quote images before and after a blockquote with CSS. Well, you still can’t do it with the “background” selector, but you c…

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sIFR Made Easy

May 29th, 2009

If you’re not a web guy…skip on to another post, ’cause this will be boring, but for me it’s exciting. Here’s the bottom line. If you want to easily incorporate SIFR into your wordpress site, use the following: WP-sIFR Plugin + dafont.com TTF + sIFR Generator = Sweet…

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