Category Archives: Web Design

My Current Local Developement Environment

By Ammon | August 4 2009

Here’s my setup: 13″ Macbook 2-1 with 4GB Ram and 2.16mhz Dual Core processor 24″ Samsung HD flatscreen external monitor Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 Firefox 3.x with Firebug, YSLow, and CodeBurner XAMPP for PHP, MySQL, and Apache VirtualBox with 4 virtual machines: Windows XP with IE 6, 7,  and 8, plus OSX running Safari Gimp [...]

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Dark PNGs in Safari

By Ammon | May 31 2009

For whatever reason, sometimes the transparent parts of PNGs appear darker in Safari than in other browsers.  You can fix it by removing all the color correction metadata from the images with pngcrush: pngcrush -rem gAMA -rem cHRM -rem iCCP -rem sRGB InputFile.png OutputFile.png pngcrush is a command line tool that optimizes (read: makes smaller) [...]

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Columns of text should not be flexible

By Ammon | April 30 2009

There are examples of flexible layouts that work, but they do not have flexible columns of text, they have static width columns that move when the window is resized.  So when the window is wide, the content fills in that space, when the window is narrow, the page gets long and narrow.  These sites are [...]

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