Saturday, January 9, 2010
I share my photos at Flickr. I like Flickr because it is easy to use, I have unlimited space for a low yearly fee, and linking to the photos is simple. Flickr has great features for sharing, editing, promoting, copyrighting, and doing things with your photos like making them into various printed items.
Thousands of other [...]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
There are many ways to style links with CSS. One possible way is to use the background-image property to distinguish the various link states.
Link states are represented in CSS by selectors involving the a element, which targets an HTML a tag in a link like <a href=”somepage.html”>Some page</a>. The potential states of a hyperlink are [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Nick Bilton on Multitasking and Media is a live-blogged report from (Re)Mixed Messages by Rachel Barenblat from PopTech. Bilton delivered many fascinating gems, which Barenblat captured with quotes like:
What does this mean for newspapers? “We talk about business models,” Bilton says, “but that’s getting ahead of what we really should be talking about — that [...]
I’m straying off topic to talk balloons. This time of the year in central New Mexico is all about hot air. I took this photo yesterday standing in my driveway in my pajamas. People willingly get up at 4:30 AM to go to a mass ascension at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. If you’ve never [...]
Here’s what you see if you try to download one of my photos on Flickr.
There’s a Creative Commons license notice that some rights are reserved right under the photo. It clearly shows that the license uses the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License.
Attribution. That means you give credit to the particular artist whose image you are using.
I took a [...]
5 Things You Can Do with Aviary Screen Capture at Web Worker Daily gives a good summary of a new feature of Aviary. I’ve written about Aviary before in Updates on Aviary and An Early Look at Aviary.
In case anyone in your life or classroom needs a reminder that everything you say and do on [...]
Shelley Powers from Burningbird sent out a tweet this morning that IE 8.1 is going to include support for SVG. If you haven’t started paying attention to SVG yet, now is the time.
A good place to start learning about SVG is Burningbird. Shelley has been working with it on her personal sites for quite some [...]
Saturday, January 3, 2009
I posted at BlogHer today about Red Bubble. This is a site similar to Photrade–which I wrote about here in Photrade’s all new–a second look. Red Bubble is similar to a site called Zazzle, which I’ve not looked at yet, but will sometime soon.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Aviary, the online image editing tool that I reviewed way back in April in An Early Look at Aviary announced updates today. One important point is that the URL is now aviary.com, with no extra dot. The software is out of beta and has added features including a vector editor and other new apps. There’s [...]