Useful Online Resources

by **miasma** on 21 Feb 2008 10:48 am

thanks bee. I have Snag-it and Camtasia but that is easier that starting another program.

by **roy** on 21 Feb 2008 01:46 pm

Wow, yeah that is pretty cool

by **roy** on 07 Mar 2008 12:03 pm

Vectorize any image. Intended for logos, but can be kinda fun with photos too. I hope this wasn't already posted somewhere...

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

by **miasma** on 08 Mar 2008 08:41 am

rmeyer7 wrote:Vectorize any image. Intended for logos, but can be kinda fun with photos too. I hope this wasn't already posted somewhere...

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

by **paradigm** on 08 Mar 2008 09:54 am

not free anymore

by **roy** on 17 Mar 2008 03:05 pm

This is kinda cool:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-ways-to- ... iew-sites/

by **rob** on 19 Mar 2008 10:05 am

Not online, but Adobe/Macromedia Fireworks makes creating PNGs with alpha transparency amazingly easy. I think you can do it with Photoshop, but you have to jump through all sorts of lame hoops.

by **euth** on 19 Mar 2008 08:18 pm

Yeah, you have to jump through hoops in Photoshop.

File > Save for Web > Save as a 24-bit PNG with transparency.

That is some tough shit.

by **van** on 19 Mar 2008 08:51 pm

It was cute that you made a transparent PNG to be used on a page with an unchanging white background.

by **roy** on 19 Mar 2008 09:02 pm

Even cuter that it looks like this in IE 6...

by **rob** on 20 Mar 2008 07:32 am

I might be wrong, but I think Fireworks will do an 8-bit PNG with transparency.

by **Doodie** on 20 Mar 2008 09:49 am

They both can, it just looks shittier.

by **Doodie** on 20 Mar 2008 03:09 pm

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03 ... te-design/

by **rob** on 20 Mar 2008 07:48 pm

Doodie wrote:They both can, it just looks shittier.

Forgive me, I misspoke. Fireworks will do an 8-bit PNG with variable transparency. I think Photoshop will only do an 8-bit PNG with 1-bit transparency (i.e., totally visible or totally transparent).

by **Bizzaro Slacker** on 20 Mar 2008 08:12 pm

either way, totally gay

by **roy** on 04 Apr 2008 01:30 pm

Cool idea for using a list. Not necessarily practical, but cool nonetheless.

http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/82/list_style_inspiration/

by **Doodie** on 01 May 2008 10:49 pm

I'm going to have to add this one.
http://www.blambot.com/fonts.shtml

by **roy** on 23 May 2008 10:36 am

Search engine for all your development language needs:
http://start.gotapi.com/

by **roy** on 03 Jun 2008 08:33 am

I'm sure everyone here has found some good stuff on A List Apart at one time or another. This week they have an article on one of those obvious things that I overlook too often.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writ ... styleguide

by **lou** on 04 Jun 2008 04:08 pm

first page of this blog has at least a handful of "woah, i need that"'s

http://radassembly.com/blog/

by **Doodie** on 10 Jun 2008 02:56 pm

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngapbr.html

PNG supporting browser index. Answered some questions for me.

by **Doodie** on 27 Jun 2008 03:19 pm

The Firefox 3 / Firebug / Web Developer combination is unstoppable.

by **Doodie** on 02 Jul 2008 03:05 pm

Anybody know of good uptime monitoring services? I swear my host goes down all the time but I can't verify it.

by **Doodie** on 09 Jul 2008 02:20 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qMe7Z3EYg

by **wok** on 09 Jul 2008 02:41 pm

Nothing compared to this.

by **roy** on 09 Jul 2008 08:56 pm

Doodie wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0qMe7Z3EYg

Somehow that looks familiar...

by **roy** on 27 Aug 2008 07:57 am

http://webdev.stephband.info/parallax.html

by **Doodie** on 07 Mar 2010 03:15 pm

http://all-silhouettes.com

This site is chock fucking full of useful vectors. I wish I knew about this before I dropped like $50 on iStock stuff.

by **rob** on 08 Mar 2010 11:10 am

My new favorite tool: LESS. This saves me time, is easy to learn, intuitive to use and there's even a TextMate bundle up on GitHub. (It's just the basics right now, but when you do a Save (⌘S), it runs lessc on your file and outputs the CSS file automatically. You can also run a script that "watches" the .less file for changes, so you can use any text editor and when you save, it will just update the output CSS without needing to ask.

The developer is also working on version 2.0, which he said should be out late this month and which will apparently be based on JavaScript and will let you do this live.

My only question is: why is this not how CSS works normally? This seems like a much smarter way to handle cascading style sheets than the current CSS implementation.

by **rob** on 11 Mar 2010 07:37 am

Here's another one. We always talk about what's good, but how about some of the bad UI decisions people make?

I present to you: The Bad UI Gallery.