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Lightroom 3

marlyse — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:30:49 +0000

Was looking forward to the Lightroom 3 Update after playing with the demo. But this is like a complete different animal, one which I do not like at all. First thing is that updating plugins is a pain, not to speak from the Publishing service which is a somewhat a sync service ( but [...]

When developing video content in html5

marlyse — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:06:44 +0000

While working through a few html5 issues and the video tag I came upon a quite frustrating and puzzling issue: The OGG (.ogv) video file would never play and also not fallback to the text. Not in Firefox on the Mac nor on the PC (via VMWare). Tried my “when all else fails” file which contains [...]

WordPress: Post Thumbnail Images

marlyse — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:36:41 +0000

Great post from Mark Jaquith on how to add Post Thumbnail Images support - works also in version 3.0 of WordPress: New in WordPress 2.9: Post Thumbnail Images « Mark on WordPress

How to fix an @charset validation error

marlyse — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:38:48 +0000

When I was running a newer site through the CSS3 validation test, I received the following, cryptic error message: This profile has a very specific syntax for @charset: @charset followed by exactly one space, followed by the name of the encoding in quotes, followed immediately by a semicolon. @charset ‘utf-8′; The line I had been using was [...]

Apple, Apple, what are you making us do.

marlyse — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:59:13 +0000

It is quite astonishing to find Apple’s foresight to be that short: they are selling the slick Apple iPad Case which fits tighter than a glove and then right next to is also the really useful Apple Keyboard Dock - but they do not work together! The keyboard dock is really nicely designed as it has [...]

Preventing the default action in jQuery

marlyse — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:13:53 +0000

It always feels good to find something new which moves you past the knowledge you had before. To me it feels like conquering a new step. Here is one of those: In the past I learned that to prevent an action to happen one needs to use: return false; Today I found something which I feel much [...]

Do you pay attention to the :focus pseudo-class?

marlyse — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:34:52 +0000

Quite probably you do use the :link and :visited pseudo-class, and also do some fancy styling on :hover and :active situations, but when was it that you’ve paid attention to the :focus? What IS :focus you might wonder. Focus comes into play when somebody uses the keyboard and not the mouse to navigate (by tabbing though) your [...]

Quick Tip on Large Background Images

marlyse — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:31:35 +0000

Scenario One : would be to put it into the body tag with the edge color being the same as the background-color. Scenario Two : but what do you do if you want to use for example a gradient or maybe even a pattern in the overall background? Your first choice might be to put [...]

What should I be charging for webdesign?

marlyse — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:25:36 +0000

The following link goes to James Larkin’s article on figuring out how much to charge when doing webdesign. It is a great article, giving you a solid foundation for things to take into consideration. Even though it’s not listed in US dollars, it is easily adapted for other countries : What should I be charging [...]

Internet Explorer 8 Bugs

marlyse — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:07:43 +0000

One would wish not having to deal with this - actually even wishing for them to finally get it right. Both wishes remain exactly that, even though Google has pulled the plug on supporting IE6 and even though there are compliant, modern browsers such as Safari and FireFox, as a web developer you will (still) [...]