Categories:
Graphic Design, Hints & Tips
Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Illustrator
I seemed to have misplaced my Adobe Illustrator CD... as such I trawled the internet for a free open source alternative.
As it turned out, I came across a site called
Open Source Alternative, which listed some
open source programs I could use as an alternative to Adobe Illustrator.
I'm now trialling
Inkscape, and it seems to be ok, although I've only opened it for about 5 minutes and
played with drawing lines and layers (I haven't trialled a lot just yet!).
I'm adding other alternatives that were listed, in case anyone is interested in trialling these other open source alternatives.
Categories:
Web Design, Hints & Tips
Conditional Comments - Making HTML/CSS work with Internet Explorer
Sometimes no matter how much I tweak my HTML/CSS to work with different browsers, I find that I have to resort to conditional comments...
(Note: these work with Internet Explorer, other browsers will treat these are normal comments).
These generally look like:
<!--[if IE]>
Add IE specific HTML
<![endif]-->
You can also check which version of Internet Explorer with the following examples:
<!--[if IE 6]>
Add HTML for IE 6
<![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 6]>
Add HTML for IE browsers greater than IE 6
<![endif]-->
<!--[if gte IE 6]>
Add HTML for IE browsers greater than or equal to IE 6
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 6]>
Add HTML for IE browsers less than IE 6
<![endif]-->
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
Add HTML for IE browsers less than or equal IE 6
<![endif]-->
It's a bit of a hack, so I try to avoid them as much as possible.
But I thought I'd share this little hint because it can be quite handy for including IE specific HTML or CSS.
Categories:
Design
bee & b
Yesterday I made a trip to Glebe markets, and despite sitting in city traffic and enduring the hot summer heat,
I was fortunate enough to check out
bee & b.
I was very impressed with the range of accessories and dresses on offer.
Despite wanting to buy everything there, I made one small purchase - a cute little white clutch bag.
If anyone is interested in checking them out,
bee & b
should be at Glebe on
January 31st, 2009.
Categories:
Graphic Design
Threadless - who are they?
I fell in love with Threadless (check out
threadless.com) back in 2006 and
this was because they sold awesome t-shirts (thank you Nikka!). They still do - but they have now expanded to prints and their corporation
skinnycorp includes other projects such as
naked & hungry.
So I've been buying their t-shirts for a while now and whenever I'm out and about,
I can pretty much recognise a Threadless tee when I see one.
And what's also cool about this site is that people can participate in designing and scoring t-shirt designs.
A year ago, I decided to try and make a design for a Threadless tee.
It wasn't until a week ago, that I decided to actually submit one.
So I'm going to end this post with a plug for my first submission (let's hope it gets through!)... :)
You can check it out
here
This is my first post for 2009, in fact the first post in a long time.
My blog has been dormant for quite some time now -
and this is mostly because I want to write about something that's worth writing about.
The aim this time around is to write about design in some way or other - mostly around graphic design, web design and software design.
I don't claim to be an expert, but I am interested in design and IT (and I suppose it helps that I work in IT).
I'm slowly going through and redesigning my site - it's pretty much bare bones at the moment, but expect some changes and additions to this site.
Designing Faster Sites 
