magnetiq.com

This website of mine is a showcase for digital artwork, strictly 250 by 250 pixels in dimensions and on various formats including GIF, PNG, JPEG, Java, DHTML, Flash and Shockwave. Since its inception in 1999, the website has attracted great talent and received worldwide recognition. The collection currently consists of around 1500 hand-picked pieces, submitted by 340 contributors. But enough of all that. The website infrastructure employs some neat tricks that provide an Ajax-like browsing experience, without using Ajax. This is what I actually want to talk about. Read the rest of this entry »

A simple website that I had put together a while ago, that harbors two simple tools that web designers may find useful. The main site shows you decently current statistics on different screen resolutions that web surfers have nowadays. You could use that as a starting point for deciding on the dimensions for a non-fluid website layout.

setmy.browsersize.com allows you to set your browser size to any desktop resolution without the need for extra add-ons/extensions. This is useful for seeing how users with different desktop resolutions will be viewing your website. whatsmy.browsersize.com tells you your current desktop resolution and browser size along with all the installed popular plug-ins (with links to download sites for missing ones).

Adobe Photoshop’s Color Picker has a Custom Colors dialog that offers a wide variety of colors from several industry-standard color catalogs such as ANPA, DIC, Focoltone and Pantone.

The color catalog data comes from Adobe Photoshop Color Book files. These file have the .ACB file extension on Windows and reside inside the “…/Presets/Color Book” folder in a typical installation. Read the rest of this entry »