Post #247,843
3/13/06 10:32:11 PM
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Re: I have begun soliciting quotes
[link|http://www.mr-anderson.net/objclips/|http://www.mr-anderson.net/objclips/]
Looks pretty much the same in Firefox, IE, and Safari, excepting that the code section font looks like ass in Safari because it doesn't seem to support monospace font families properly.
My suggestion: break the main page up so you have "Intro", "Examples", "FAQ", and "Download" (with production and beta releases, both binary and source, MD5 signatures, etc., like a proper OSS site) and put links to them in the (rudimentary) menu bar on the left. Dump the inline images for the "Who's Using It" and "Books" sections, too, or float them off to the right or something. Probably a "Links" section in the menu as well with all the fscript links and so on.
And dump that HTML generator you're using... holy crying whitespace does it do a crappy job. :-P I didn't do too much repair because I didn't want to spend more than 20 minutes on it.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #247,863
3/14/06 1:23:52 AM
8/21/07 6:34:43 AM
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So where did you get the art?
Because I don't want any issues with art "borrowing". Also, which graphics editor did you use?
It seems to me that the nifty low end easy art tools we used to have on the Mac have gone by the wayside - either you have to bite the bullet and learn something fairly complex, or you get really lame paint tools with no transparency controls.
The "HTML generator" is TextEdit. It *was* a text document I just "saved as HTML" one day and have been hacking on since.
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Post #247,884
3/14/06 7:23:47 AM
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Fails W3 validation, though
I leave it to your judgment whether the 13 errors are significant or not.
[link|http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mr-anderson.net%2Fobjclips%2F|http://validator.w3....net%2Fobjclips%2F]
Peter
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Post #247,888
3/14/06 8:47:37 AM
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Like I said, it needs some work.
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-scott anderson
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Post #247,889
3/14/06 8:50:22 AM
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Fairy nuff.
Peter
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Post #247,887
3/14/06 8:46:04 AM
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Re: So where did you get the art?
It's Google Image. I used GIMP.
But basically all you need to do is take a picture of a circuit board, blur it (Gaussian blur), tilt it (map object), and fade the end (transparent eraser).
I figured it was something like TextEdit, given the "Cocoa HTML Generator" meta tag.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #247,899
3/14/06 10:00:10 AM
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Arts and the Mac
An excellent source for art (photo, illustration & animation) is [link|http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php|iStockphoto]. Prices begin at a buck per image (lo-res, suitable for the sort of use you have in mind), to three and five dollars for medium and high, respectively. Most of the "Diebold Variations" were built around iStock pictures. As to "low end easy art tools," if I didn't already own Photoshop I would make haste to acquire "Photoshop Elements" for about a c-note—by all accounts it's an excellent value (unlike the execrable "Photoshop LE" of the 1990s), and it would certainly suffice for anything you might essay in the web graphic line.
cordially,
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Post #247,900
3/14/06 10:05:12 AM
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Photoshop Elements 3 is excellent
I have the Mac version (about forty of my English pounds) and it's just the daddy for low-end image work.
Peter
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Post #247,932
3/14/06 4:34:05 PM
8/21/07 6:35:51 AM
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Two good tips - I'll give it a look
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
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