Friday / June 6, 2008
A while ago I wrote a post about how my colors were losing intensity when I would “Save for web.” I found out via this awesome little explanation that Photoshop embeds color profiles into your images when saved. I recommend visiting the Vidget blog to get the full reasoning behind why Photoshop does this, but I have also included my own little tutorial about how to get the same vibrant colors from Photoshop to the web. (more…)
Tuesday / June 3, 2008
Last week I posted a tutorial on how to create a motion parallax effect on your site. I also gave you a preview of what I would be posting about this week. Well, here it is. I will be showing you how to use the parallax technique plus another, slightly modified, technique called a sticky footer. (more…)
Tuesday / May 27, 2008
A while ago I stumbled across a very interesting site. It uses a technique called the motion parallax effect. Though it might not have been the first instance of this technique on the web. I had never seen it before, and was excited to try my own implementations.
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Sunday / February 10, 2008
Personal branding is a key ingredient when trying to make a company. There is usually a catchy name for the company along with a logo icon that people can recognize. One trend I have noticed with a few popular businesses is using birds for their logo. (more…)
Saturday / February 9, 2008
About three months ago Scott Johnson over at My Extra Life started allowing his viewers to pay their way into his comics. For ten bucks anyone can send their picture and name to Scott and guest star in his comic. (more…)
Monday / January 21, 2008
There isn’t a very wide selection of available fonts to use that will work across all browsers and machines when working on the web. There are however some cool CSS tricks help with this, and allow you to create just the right look for your site. (more…)
Friday / January 4, 2008
I recently did a redesign of dylanbathurst.com. I used photoshop CS3 for all of the graphic use. Working primarily with firefox I noticed a distinct difference in colors when comparing my photoshop file to the actual image in the browser. At first I just chalked it up to color loss when saving the image as a jpg or png file format. (more…)
Thursday / December 20, 2007
I know my posts have been pretty stagnant for a while. If you have noticed I finally finished my new theme. I call it Entity. I am currently creating a post all about the theme. My inspiration, thought process, and implementation of those thoughts.
Anyways to get the ball rolling with some new jive here at dylanbathurst.com I thought I would make a post about what I have been interested in lately: (more…)
Sunday / November 25, 2007
Four days ago I read a story on Valleywag about Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” button costing them $110 million a year. I thought this was a very interesting story so I promptly submitted it to digg.com. To my disappointment the story only got 40 diggs. (more…)
Monday / October 15, 2007
Well here is a great place to start. As part of the very first Blog Action Day, I have decided to post about how I plan to be more friendly to nature in the future. (more…)
