Almost a year has passed without a post…

16 Apr 2008 > 0 Comments

…And yet I receive comments on a regular basis thanking me for my various tutorials…

1. Paint Shop Pro Tutorials
2. Creating a div based Template using CSS (part 1 - 12)
3. Microsoft Paint Tutorials
4. ProBoards Tutorials

…And ProBoard Skins and Templates…

1. ProBoards Templates
2. And other Downloads

Thanks again for all your kind words and support over the past couple of years.

Regrettably, my passion for graphics and web design has died down over the past year, and I rarely open up my Image Editor these days. So perhaps this is my final Blog entry. I apologize for any questions that have remained unanswered. I’ll continue to help the best I can, although it is doubtful I’ll be able to fix your template problems. The best I can do is direct you to How to install a ProBoards template

I still intend you keep this site up and running. Who knows my interest in graphic design might rekindle, but until then farewell.

mahud

Creating rounded corners when working with screenshots

25 Apr 2007 > 4 Comments

Often the coding comes first when I’m working on a layout, and as I work on styling each particular element of the page via the style sheet, I take a screen captures and overlay with graphic enhancements.

The complete post…

New Logo

20 Apr 2007 > 3 Comments

I haven’t been a very active blogger lately, for various reasons, so I thought I’d show off the revamped version of the “Kid” logo for my next redesign.

I’m not that wise in the ways of the Pen Tool (PSP), and it took me a few hours getting it right, learning a few things along the way too (which is a bonus), mostly using the Bezier Curves tool.

Kid originally started out as a comic character I created a few years ago, called “The Mundane and Amazing Adventures of Kid”

Ordered List items all 1 in IE

10 Apr 2007 > 2 Comments

This is an unusual bug that I haven’t seen before, caused in Internet Explorer 6 and 7. When I applied the width property and value to the <li> selector, all the numbers in an ordered list become 1.

I googled for a solution and found it in the comment thread to this post..

Adding display:list-item; restored everything back to normality.

Towards the door we never opened

8 Apr 2007 > 0 Comments

My current entry for the Digital Art Challenge over at Ocgfx.

In part, inspired by the Blood lust design over at Zen Garden.

Sheepdip Wordpress Theme

6 Apr 2007 > 14 Comments

Sheepdip is a free Standards Compliant (xhtml.strict) Wordpress Theme, immaculately coded for your downloading pleasure. It consists of two main templates for the index and single page (see previews below), with a fixed width of 760px.

I’ve kept the CSS down to a bare minimum, using only a small number of id and class names, without sacrificing the design. The template uses 10 compressed .jpg images, including images (rather than styling) for the dotted borders, that would otherwise appear dashed in Internet Explorer 6. I have also included images for the submit buttons, which need to be added directly to the xhtml template.

The complete post…