Digital clock

July 9th, 2008

Download clock file

Creating cityscapes in illustration

June 24th, 2008

An illustration tutorials @ Computer Arts: Bring cityscapes to life.

Cityscapes

Weather information

June 23rd, 2008

Vancouver weather condition…Information from Weather Bug.

Download weather information file

Snow particle

June 13th, 2008

Currently working on the new DD blog banner with weather forecast.
Created the snow particle for the weather scene.

Download snow particle example

Embed Flash or Die Trying

June 11th, 2008

An Article from Perishable Press

Web designers and developers looking to embed Flash content into a web page currently enjoy a wide variety of methods from which to choose. The most common methods vary along several key dimensions, including standards-compliance, user-friendliness, and universal support.

Some methods make it easy to provide alternative content, others enable auto-activation of Flash content, while others feature plugin-detection functionality. In an attempt to round-up the myriad techniques, this article presents nine of the most useful, practical, and popular methods for embedding Flash content.

Lightbox2

June 10th, 2008

Lightbox 2 is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

What’s New in Version 2
Image Sets: group related images and navigate through them with ease
Visual Effects: fancy pants transitions
Backwards Compatibility: yes!

Dreamweaver/XHTML Tutorial Embed a Favicon

June 10th, 2008

Here’s the step to create favicon

Convert the PNG file to ICO format
Upload the file and paste the path into the href tag.
Finally, paste the following code inside the head tag and below meta tag.
<link rel=”shortcuticon” href=”http://www.yourwebsite.com/favicon.ico” />

4 Simple Ways To Speed Up WordPress

June 10th, 2008

I’ve been working on my blog in the last couple weeks. I found this article in WP Candy quite helpful. I guess web designer should know this.

Here’s the article

Some self-hosted WordPress sites tend to run slow, especially when you receive tons of heavy traffic every day. This may be a result of the amount of large files your site needs to load or inefficient coding …

1. Staying up to date with releases
2. Disable or delete unused plugins
3. Clean up your code
4. Minimize PHP and database queries

Blog is finally working

June 6th, 2008

Finally my blog is functioning properly
I guess it’s time for me to put up some works on the blog
It has been awhile since I have accomplished an assignment

Regarding to design…I stick with plain…more simple & clean design
The title of my blog is “Just an ordinary blog”
Hopefully it’s a good start and keep myself on track in the digital design field