Sometimes you forget about some photos.
…And sometimes you can find one, while browsing your own photo archives on the hard-disk, and say to yourself ‘Wow! I like this one! Why don’t I post it on my blog?’…
And so I did, with this one:)
I like it. It was made while on the bicycle, after a heavy rain, and with the sun shining brightly…
Today, exactly at midnight, my blog (www.optimiced.com), as well as Ani’s blog (www.molif.com), are getting rid of their ‘clothes’.
Today is ‘CSS Naked Day‘ — the day which promotes Web Standards!
This ‘CSS Naked Day’ is 24 to 48 hours long, and will show, that a blog or website with well written HTML+CSS can look pretty well even without its clothes (without its CSS styles).
So, if you see my blog without CSS today or tomorrow (without its design), don’t be puzzled by this fact — we ‘stripped of’ our CSS styles for a good cause — and, as you can judge by the photo above (which we made together a few hours ago), not only of our CSS clothes, but also of our real clothes! (Read also a story at the Blogherald) ;-)
Long live Web Standards! :-D
Yesterday I made an upgrade from WP 2.3.3 to WP 2.5 (with full backup of MySQL database and files before that, of course). Looks like everything works fine:)
First, about the good things in WP 2.5:
There a lot of others, but these I noticed at first glance.
And now some rant from my part:
It was almost winter in the Borissov’s Garden, a few days ago, but today Spring can be felt stronger and stronger in the air and the birds start singing on the trees, thinking of Love…
I always liked graphic design. As Web designer, up until now I did not need any 3D skills in my work, and in the rare occasions, when I was imitating 3D or 2.5D (as this pencil, for example, created with Fireworks), I did it for fun:)
If you watched Ice Age or Shrek, you certainly know how advanced is now the 3D animation. Of course, I watched these movies, too, and I know that nowadays, almost every real object can be drawn in such a way, so it looks really real:)
Notwithstanding this fact, I was amazed to see this:
[©Steve Moody, virtualcoder.co.uk]
Looks incredible!
Yes, I know it’s not a photo, I know these balls were created using a 3D program, and for all that, my mind cannot accept this fact, somehow… I was even trying to convince myself not to check for available EXIF data in this image, it looked so much as a photograph to me:-)
Step 1:
Open Silverback.
Step 2:
Resize slowly your browser window (Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE7 are all ОК) and…
Step 3:
…watch the effect. Cool!
There’s a discussion on how the quasi-3D effect was achieved using CSS + half-transparent PNG graphics — to me it reminds me the old video games; and looking at Steve, I instantly think of Nintendo’s Donkey Kong!
CSS rullz! ;-)
Smart tools as xScope 2 make me feel sorry sometimes, that I don’t own an Apple Mac! ;-)
If you work on a Mac and do (web)design, I recommend you to drop a look at Doug Bowman‘s blog, where he wrote a detailed explanation about xScope (in short, this is something like Screen Calipers, multiplied by 10… or even 100!).
Argh! This is called Win-discrimination! :-D
If you still didn’t send your Fireworks tutorial — now’s the moment, as the contest is extended ’till end of March!
I avow, that I didn’t yet send anything, because I started writing my tutorial in the evening of February 28th, and after approx. 2 hours of writing and taking screenshots I got at a dead end and… went to bed:)
Now I have the chance to make a revanche and finally create my first tutorial about my favourite graphics program ;-)
