Monday, November 22, 2004

Acrobat 7 - built in heaven?

Lori DeFurio, Developer Evangelist from Adobe gave us a wonderful showing of all the new stuff coming with Acrobat 7. Here is the Adobe page that explains the day: This probably won’t stay live for too long

I was particulary impressed with the RSS feeds into Acrobat and the potential to give some extra Reader functionality through the ‘LiveCycle’ server. This is going to cost far too much though!

Posted on 22 Nov 2004 around 8pm • Tagged with: Events

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Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Navigation á la carte? - A few thoughts on Menus

Pop down and pop out menus are all the rage. I have used some here and I am planning others in a another project.

A good time to review this method of navigation and see what tools and methods are available.

Posted on 26 Oct 2004 around 8pm • Tagged with: How I do things

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Monday, October 04, 2004

Creative Commons coming to a screen near you!

At the launch of the UK version of the Creative Commons licencing system today, Lawrence Lessig gave a very lucid presentation of the system and its history. The London launch took place at UCL and was attended by many IT and publishing media gurus. Damian Tambini of Oxford University explained that the UK versions of the Creative Commons licences will be available on November 1 2004.

The Creative Commons web site is here
and the UK section is here

Posted on 04 Oct 2004 around 8pm • Tagged with: Events

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Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Colour Casting

I’m looking at colour again. In the design scheme for one of the web sites that I maintain, the colour specified in the design manifesto is ‘Pantone’ 644. In this branding document, the specification of this colour for the web is RGB: 44% 62% 73%. I don’t usually specify colour in CSS as RGB but rather as HEX. However, I am curious, because if these RGB values are pumped into Photoshop, then the colour is all wrong. So how does this come about?

Posted on 28 Sep 2004 around 11am • Tagged with: How I do things

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Monday, September 27, 2004

Stats Ecstatic

I love it! Statistics! If you need to know how many hits you get on your site (and you do need to know), then try MNM-Stats here

This uses PHP and mySql to gather comprehensive information about the visitors you have, including browser, operating system, colour depth and even screen resolution. So if you think that no one is viewing your site with a 640x480 screen, then get a copy of MNM-stats to find out for sure.

Posted on 27 Sep 2004 around 9am • Tagged with: Web Technology

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