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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:19 pm
by Genete
Vern, have you planned to write it in english? I suck with german.

Keep a eye on your web.
-G
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:23 pm
by magicwand
Thanks Vern,
The article was a good read. Now if only background images could scale,
sigh well we will have to wait for CSS3.
For those who are confused with the content please refer the following URL
http://www.lipsum.com/
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:06 pm
by heyvern
Originally I planned to have the header graphic tile horizontally... but this will do until CSS3 gets finalized... if ever. It's been years it seems.
magicwand wrote:
For those who are confused with the content please refer the following URL
http://www.lipsum.com/
Great link. I always thought it was "made up" text that simulated proper word length and sentence structure. It actually means something! Great. Don't let my clients find out.... they will proof read it and make changes.
-vern
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:43 pm
by rplate
heyvern wrote:HOLY FREAKING COW!!!
Hold the CTRL key and use the scroll wheel on your mouse!!!!!! The page enlarges and shrinks!!!
That's it man. This is the holy grail of web design for me. No looking back.
-vern
Did you know that on a Mac you always could do that with any page,
using the >option<>command< >8< then >option<>command< >=< or <-> thats equal or minus.

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Bob P
PS: On my Mac the control plus the scroll wheel only scrolled my screen.

Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:41 pm
by heyvern
I only tried the CTRL scroll wheel thingy in fire fox.
That "zoom" feature on the mac is a "hardware" monitor zoom. The zoom of a web page I'm using is enlarging the font size.
Cool! I found a shortcut to change the contrast... I never knew about that one.
-vern
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:52 pm
by heyvern
I found another trick but I'm not sure if it's just "too much".
So enlarging the text size scales the whole page right? What if you could just do that "automatically" based on the width of the browser window? So if the window is enlarged the page will automatically zoom to fill the width.
It works great using a small Javascript. Also the user activated changing of the text size still works
Here is a sample:
http://www.vernsworld.com/anime_studio/index3.html
Just resize the window and the page auto scales to fit.
-vern
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:14 pm
by heyvern
WooHooo! I'm having fun! This is hard work but I'm enjoying it.
A while back I started keeping a sort of file on my hard drive with copies of my tips and techniques but I wasn't always faithful in keeping it up to date.
Since I started the web site design I wanted to make sure I got everything possible to put in it. So I did a search for all of my posts in tips and techniques and I am reformatting for the new web site. It's going very well. All the images and movies and samples are linked in the posts to where I uploaded them.
I should have at a minimum, a rough set up with some tutorials in a few days.
I was surprised that I found several Flash tutorials in there. I found the template I used and may use that format for others. Wait and see.
I recommend that anyone else who posts techniques try this sometime. Just search for your user name in tips and techniques and sort by username. You can then go through and copy/paste or save the threads. Get everything in one place.
-vern
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:50 pm
by rplate
heyvern wrote:WooHooo! I'm having fun! This is hard work but I'm enjoying it.
A while back I started keeping a sort of file on my hard drive with copies of my tips and techniques but I wasn't always faithful in keeping it up to date.
Since I started the web site design I wanted to make sure I got everything possible to put in it. So I did a search for all of my posts in tips and techniques and I am reformatting for the new web site. It's going very well. All the images and movies and samples are linked in the posts to where I uploaded them.
I should have at a minimum, a rough set up with some tutorials in a few days.
I was surprised that I found several Flash tutorials in there. I found the template I used and may use that format for others. Wait and see.
I recommend that anyone else who posts techniques try this sometime. Just search for your user name in tips and techniques and sort by username. You can then go through and copy/paste or save the threads. Get everything in one place.
-vern
Hey, I just discovered that if I open the view source on your web page and then (on a Mac) print as a PDF file and save it I have your source in PDF form to study. COOL! Now i'll be as smart as you.
BOB P
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:03 am
by heyvern
Hey, I just discovered that if I open the view source on your web page and then (on a Mac) print as a PDF file and save it I have your source in PDF form to study. COOL! Now i'll be as smart as you.
I've been doing that for years!

The technique it isn't original to me anyway. I got the idea from an article on elastic web design.
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Did you check the most recent version with animation?
http://www.lowrestv.com/anime_studio/
I stuck an animated gif inside the header image.
-vern
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:05 pm
by patricia3d
Hi Heyvern
I want to that page you mentioned. I think this is non English.
I only know English.
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:01 pm
by jahnocli
Ha ha! No, this isn't English -- it's a kind of "dog Latin" that typographers use so that they can get some impression of what text would look like. It's just meaningless stuff...