tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:56:06 +0000project gutenbergraster imagesextensionsastronomyhostdreamweaverebooksgoogle apiweb hostingphotoshopoptimizewebmasterweb developmentdigital cameratemplategoogle street viewincludeigoogleanimated gifgoogle chromesearch and replacezen cartsurgerytablesfirefoxadobe bridgeaddonsexcelcssgoogle earthbrowserrsshtmltech supportcoorsinternetsearchmicrosoftzencartblinkspanish languageaccentserrorgmailscienceweb designgoogleDiscussing web design, art, and random fun things.http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Jessica)Blogger152125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-2060818337848553665Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:14:00 +00002010-04-08T20:18:45.597-06:00Last year I wrote about my trip to Los Angeles in the Ford Mercury Mariner that Ford lent me for a test drive. This week I found out Ford is using social media ONLY to market their newest release, the Fiesta. It's a sleek little compact that should get 40mpg. Ford's big idea? They're having competitions between city groups of social media enthusiasts.Here is Lemon, Denver's chosen team leader. Hehttp://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2010/04/ford-social-media-and-new-fiesta.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-5853191947009888958Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:23:00 +00002010-03-18T22:16:41.383-06:00Here is my version of an electronic day in the life of The Pixellator: Up Close. Gadgets and software play a prominent part in my life. If I lost it all in an instant, I could still get along very well, thank you, but I'm in love with how much today's gadgetry enhances and eases my life. I start the day with an electronic rooster crow alarm from my Android smart phone. I snooze it about three http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2010/03/electronic-day-in-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-4907223765300609949Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:27:00 +00002010-02-07T21:01:47.036-07:00During the Superbowl, I happened to scan headlines in Google News just ten minutes before I saw the Google ad. I spotted a headline about Google's exec not Tweeting often so I clicked. Then the ad came on tv so I could Tweet about it right away. In the tweet, I remarked about how my 12 year old son was just asking me this week why he never sees Google ads on tv, but he sees ads for Yahoo and http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2010/02/googles-superbowl-ad-spot.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-7245361768674223421Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:09:00 +00002009-12-05T16:14:33.926-07:00I saw this amazing collection of tutorials for Illustrator, Photoshop, Wordpress, and more, and just had to pass it along here. Tutorials for web and graphic design. Thanks to BeMooved on Twitter for alerting me to this great resource.At the same time, if you just want to look at some interesting typography portraits, BeMooved also passed this link along. Typography Portraits. Have you ever triedhttp://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2009/12/great-collection-of-tutorials.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-1709295772403088035Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:25:00 +00002009-07-01T19:51:48.339-06:00templatedreamweaverI like to use templates in Dreamweaver when I'm designing a site from scratch or doing an entire site redesign. I am currently working on a redesign and my master plan for long term maintenance was to base all files on a template and use a library item for the footer. Whenever the main navigation changes, it's also easy to update because it's an externally located set of javascript files. As far http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2009/07/dreamweaver-templates-and-css.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-1562723624541218414Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:07:00 +00002009-06-20T12:50:40.021-06:00A social media company contacted me to see if I would test drive a car and write about it on my blogs. I happily agreed to a week with a hybrid, and they had a Mercury Mariner Hybrid delivered to my house on the dates I specified. How cool is that?I normally drive a Suzuki Grand Vitara, shown to the right (not my actual car!). About a week before I was to get the hybrid, I drove the Suzuki to http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2009/06/mercury-mariner-hybrid-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-6780632757212872514Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:47:00 +00002009-06-19T18:03:48.507-06:00When working on building or revising a site in Dreamweaver, there are a couple of options available to make editing and maintaining the site easier. Currently, I'm helping with a redesign of an existing site, so I don't want to change any file names because they are already indexed in the search engines. But I also want to help the crew who will eventually maintain the site by making the ftp http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2009/06/dreamweaver-templates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-6419951698710328395Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:24:00 +00002009-01-19T14:44:04.729-07:00google street viewdigital cameragoogle earthI use Google street view every day. I have never taken the time to research how all those images of our houses are taken. I was vaguely guessing that there must be cameras mounted in our street lights or traffic lights, or speed trap camera stations. But that wouldn't produce the amount of street level detail as what I see online.Today I found the actual car the camera is mounted on, while IN http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2009/01/google-street-view.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-5807112337863232988Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:33:00 +00002008-11-18T22:35:55.449-07:00project gutenbergsurgeryebooksProject Gutenberg is a site that offers free ebook versions of books within the public domain. From the looks of the below stats, twenty thousand wannabe surgeons have downloaded a manual of surgery within the last thirty days. Oh, man! Top 100 EBooks last 30 days 1. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Miles and Thomson (20517) 2. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/11/project-gutenberg.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-3011654598763615048Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:37:00 +00002008-10-23T21:34:08.375-06:00excelgmaildreamweavergooglemicrosofttablescssThis week I needed to post a large list of tabular data into a web page. Rather than re-type the spreadsheet (over 1500 rows) into a Dreamweaver originated table, I exported. But there are several ways to do this.If you don't have Excel, use your handy-dandy gmail account to either "view as HTML" and copy/paste the code view into your Dreamweaver page, or "open as Google Spreadsheet" and choose http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/10/excel-and-dreamweaver.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-7720114006699385231Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:15:00 +00002008-10-14T22:47:11.834-06:00raster imagesanimated gifphotoshopoptimizeDoing online promotions often requires you to design a banner ad. You can fit more information into the allotted space by making an animated gif rather than a static jpg. Although you'd like to use gradients, text effects, and millions of colors in your raster images, you won't be able to optimize the final animation to fit into file size requirements.I designed a sample banner (below) to http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/10/optimizing-animated-gifs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-3226230508022342461Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:27:00 +00002008-09-26T18:56:29.177-06:00accentsweb designspanish languagephotoshopdreamweaverI currently am working on a Spanish language mirror site of one of my web sites. I use Dreamweaver to automatically add accent marks and tildes for my Spanish language pages.Insert>HTML>Special Characters>other...The Insert Other Character window opens and offers an array of capital and lower case letters with various accents and other marks. Double click one of them to add it to the design view http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/09/accents-and-tildes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-2429359469652080205Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:39:00 +00002008-09-18T15:52:23.634-06:00extensionsdreamweaverhtmlIf you are taking over the maintenance of an existing site, or simply setting up one of your sites on a new computer, your version of Dreamweaver may or may not be able to open all of the files in the site.For instance, in my cgi-bin, I have a file called "Log.dat". This is the file that is automatically generated by my cgi order script. If I ever have a need to open it, I get a message like thishttp://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/09/dreamweaver-and-file-extensions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-4996041168144021001Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:21:00 +00002008-09-03T16:23:21.455-06:00I have used Chrome for several hours now, and here are my findings. At first I thought there was no status bar, but today I saw that it is a dynamic status bar. That means if I hover over a link in a page, the destination to that link pops up on the bottom left side of the browser, so that I can find out if I'd like to trust that link before I click it. Google's movie talks up the fact that each http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/09/day-one-with-chrome.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-1623176182169970299Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:49:00 +00002008-09-02T22:23:12.293-06:00web developmentgoogle chromebrowserGoogle announced the beta launch of its new browser Chrome today. I downloaded it and looked at most of the sites I've designed. I'm pleased with the rendering of css and images. The look of the browser is streamlined, as it puts the tabs at the top of the window, then the address bar followed by the bookmarks bar, then it renders the page. I don't see a status bar. Check it out yourself. Google http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/09/google-chrome-is-buzz.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-656547785199579851Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:36:00 +00002008-08-07T17:27:51.233-06:00internetastronomyscienceJust for fun: I found an interesting news article that links the internet with astronomy. (Can you imagine preparing and posting a million images to the web? Use your batch functions!)CNN has offered kudos to an "armchair astronomer" for spotting a new space object amongst a million photos taken by robot.I love stories like this because they are a celebration of the kind of progress humans can http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/08/armchair-astronomer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-7836533056939620407Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:38:00 +00002008-11-06T19:04:15.759-07:00digital cameraadobe bridgecoorsI recently lost everything on my computer, but it was recoverable. I got the "Blue screen of death." I don't even know what caused it, but one Thursday morning, the computer wouldn't boot up. It just showed me the blue screen and indicated that it wouldn't even start in safe mode.But, thanks to my IT friend, my data is recovered and I have re-installed most everything. I had left the Kodak http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/07/digital-cameras-and-adobe-bridge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-3817673721748705547Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:19:00 +00002008-11-06T19:04:15.943-07:00web developmentfirefoxigoogleaddonsgmailrsscssMy friends who know about web development often ask me how I can do so many things online and still have a life. I don't really know! But I do know that I've organized my favorite browser Firefox to help me streamline my work. I build web sites and wordpress templates, I need to help manage a construction company, I actively blog for three domains, and I'm active in social networking on Facebook http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/06/my-souped-up-browser.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-3992707574352769593Wed, 14 May 2008 17:35:00 +00002008-05-14T11:35:02.014-06:00Adobe Dreamweaver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCheck out this Wikipedia article all about Dreamweaver. I needed to know the order that all the different versions came out. I didn't have success over at the Adobe site; they only tell you what's new, not the order of versions. I remember working on Ultra Dev, dating from 2000, then I worked on MX. The frustrating thing is that Macromedia http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/05/adobe-dreamweaver-wikipedia-free.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-416410742265131910Tue, 06 May 2008 19:29:00 +00002008-05-06T13:29:21.245-06:00Seminars: Getting Started with Dreamweaver and CSS : MOGO MediaThis is a link to a full day workshop all about Dreamweaver and CSS. See if an event is coming to a city near you.Mogo also has a blog that talks about Adobe software and related events.http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/05/seminars-getting-started-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-4518088183886336165Sat, 03 May 2008 20:16:00 +00002008-05-03T14:27:56.744-06:00web developmentsearch and replacesearchdreamweaverEven though I earlier found a fault with Dreamweaver's find tool, it is a great way to perform a find and replace in your site. You can open five or six documents and search through text or source code on all of them to find what you need.You can select files in the files panel and search through them without opening them. Then the results panel will tell you what it found. You can even do a http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/05/dreamweaver-find-feature.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-3397719510927630751Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:54:00 +00002008-04-26T22:54:35.862-06:00If you use software every day, you get used to the ins and outs of how it looks just at a glance. Anne-Marie was able to spot her favorite program InDesign actually in use on a cable tv mini drama. InDesignSecrets Blog Archive InDesign on MTVMy comment is from "Jessica A" and I was excited to see either Director or AfterEffects in use on "This is Daniel Cook". You see, I don't get to watch the http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/04/your-software-on-tv.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-6316387962440408677Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:15:00 +00002008-04-23T23:15:04.182-06:00WW1 Flying AceJust for fun! I love laughing at the Engrish blog. The above link shows a product depicting "Snoopy" but misspelled as "Spoony". The caption says "Don't forget wockstood!"http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/04/ww1-flying-ace.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-3517459886426920567Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:11:00 +00002008-04-16T20:34:43.151-06:00searchdreamweaverI think I found something Dreamweaver can't do. Today I needed to isolate files that had word A and word B in them. I used the ctrl f to find but then there was only one field that you could search on at a time. Unlike advanced search techniques in search engines that take boolean controls like + and - to add to or subtract from search results, Dreamweaver accepts only regular expressions in its http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2008/04/find-feature-in-dreamweaver.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496509.post-4601383285476714364Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:44:00 +00002007-12-04T20:59:11.445-07:00web developmenttemplateincludedreamweaverAt work, I've set up about three templates to use for the generation of new pages. One standard 2-column template, one single column template, and one specialty 2-column template with different information in the second column. When I need to make a new page, I go to "assets" and select the template I need and do a right-click. I choose "new from template" and it makes a new page. Before I add http://thepixellator.blogspot.com/2007/12/templates-in-dreamweaver.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jessica)0