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Dreamweaver CS3 Start and Crash Bug
I just experienced an unusual bug that prevented Dreamweaver from starting up completely. It actually kept closing by itself right before displaying all the panels.
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Pencil Painting with Nickelsen
A new technique I am learning is a process called Color Pencil Painting where you use paint thinner as a blending tool with rich color pencils. Searches of this technique yield one recurring name as a result, Alyona Nickelsen.
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Table Behavior without Tables
Many times a “table like” layout is necessary to abide by the Rule of Thirds law, specially with the currently popular “magazine” type website layouts.
Adding a table to the layout would simply be too easy, and wouldn’t fit into the “Do Everything without Tables” mentality plaguing the web. So I demonstrate how to achieve the behavior without the table.
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Flash Slideshow in Actionscript 3
“Simple Slide” is an automated slide show that can also be used for banner ads. Download it now to tweak it for your specific application.
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JavaScripted Tooltips
Here is a simple attempt at some JavaScripted tooltips. I expect there to be bugs when you have two “sticky” tooltips overlapping each other.
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The Textfield’s Alpha Property in AS 3.0
A common and frustrating issue when creating text fields dynamically is the manipulation of this objects alpha property. Usually you just set it and forget it, but in this case a couple more steps are required. the trick is to set the blending mode of the text fields parent object.
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IE Conditional Comments
Years ago before I discovered Internet Explorer’s Conditional Comments, I struggled with CSS hacks, IE filters, and unreliable JavaScript sniffers.
With this technique markup inside the comments will be only visible to the IE browser in general or specific versions that you specify.
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Color Picker
Here’s a color picker i created a while ago dubbed “Hex Flex”. It was more of a beta that I plan on recoding and releasing soon.
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Posemaniacs Anatomy
While browsing Think Anatomy I came across an entry that showcased a reference tool for artists.
The website is Posemaniacs where you can choose from many different human figures in various poses. Each stance provides the ability to rotate it, on a y axis, a full 360 degrees. One plus is that the figures lack skin so you can view all the muscles and how they weave into each other.
