Forcing IE7 mode in IE8 – peace on earth.

I was just asked to fix a few problems on a site I made pre IE8, and was expecting a few hours of hitting F5 and chaning padding values, when I noticed the little broken page icon in IE8, I’d never noticed it before, so clicked it. Bam. The pages all looked fine!
Turns out this [...]

File Conversion Website for opening WPS Files on a Mac

I’d been given some WPS files full of content for a new site I was working on, but couldn’t get them to open at all on my Mac for love nor money (well, that’s not true, I could have coughed up for MacLink Plus). All the Google searching resulted in “it’s impossible” or convert it [...]

Working with Video

I’ve been wanting to get into some video stuff for a while, but since a bit of Premiere and After Effects at Uni, I haven’t really done much. I got my hands on a trial of After Effects, and started making some intro bits for some videos I have for a surfboard shapers site. I [...]

EasyBook & EasyCaptcha problems…

I’ve been using the fantastic EasyBook on a few sites for while now, and apart from a great guestbook solution, it also provided my sites with a bucket load of spam. At the request of one of my larger clients, I looked into stopping, or at least minimizing the amount of junk emails and guestbook entries they were receiving.

Tiny Art Director

Briefs and criticism from a four year old Art Director. Reminds me of some projects I’ve worked on…
http://tinyartdirector.blogspot.com/

Dynamic Image Resizing with PHP

I’ve used this script in loads of projects over the last few years, when I Google for PHP image resizing I always end up back in the same place! Very good for quick and easy live resizing, with some more advanced features like constraining widths and heights. You’ll need GD2 running on your server, but [...]

Wordpress Scissors Plugin, handy.

I just installed this, perfect for cropping and resizing photos in the Wordpress admin upload bit, just like that one down there. No need to start up Photoshop etc. Download it from the Wordpress plugin site.