Aug
5th

Wed

The OPML Editor

OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) an XML-based format that allows exchange of outline-structured information between applications running on different operating systems and environments.

The latest OPML Editor comes knowing how to do one thing, edit OPML documents. Everything else can be added by installing tools using the new Tool Catalog command. Screen shot.

Jul
22nd

Wed

Why Are People Still Using Internet Explorer 6?

Aptana Jaxer

Use The APIs And Standards You Already Know

Use the same ubiquitous set of languages you find in the Web browser, on the server to build full apps or presentation tiers faster and more easily.

HTML, JavaScript, and CSS are all native to Jaxer, as are XMLHttpRequests, JSON, and DOM scripting. And as a server it offers access to databases, files, and networking, as well as logging, process management, scalability, security, integration APIs, and extensibility.

Jaxer is licensed under the GPL, and leverages the ubiquitous Mozilla engine that is used in Firefox 3, which means that Jaxer is fully compatible with the latest JavaScript standards, including access to all of the features you are familiar with — from Date to Math to window and document, and even JavaScript 1.5, 1.7, and 1.8 — they’re all there. If you know JavaScript and HTML, you can already build Jaxer applications.

Use your Ajax, HTML, JavaScript and DOM skills server-side
Integrate with databases, file systems, networks and more
Just tag your JavaScript code to run on the server, the client, or both

Jul
21st

Tue

Triadic Harmonies

Triadic Harmonies are sets of colors that are equidistant on the color wheel. You might use shades or tints from one triadic set in combination. Above, one set of shades and one set of tints are shown.

Split Complementary

Split Complementary are sets of colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. Unlike simple complementary pairs, however, in a split you substitute the two colors on each side of the directly complementary partner color. There are 12 such combinations, in the image above, only 4 of the 12 are visible.

Complementary Colors

Complementary colors are those that are opposite each other on the color wheel. You might use shades or tints from one complementary set in combination. In the six pairs seen here, some shades and tints are shown. The top and bottom of the six pairs are equivalent to all 12 hues in the color wheel. The top three are the primary colors, which are paired with the secondary colors. All the tertiary colors are in the lower row of pairs.

Web Colors: Analogious Colors

Analogous colors are those that are side-by-side on the color wheel. You might use shades or tints from one analogous set in combination. That is, you shouldn’t think only in terms of the 12 colors seen here. Each one of the 12 hues has a range of saturation or brightness. Yet you must not combine colors without thinking about how they affect one another. What are the relationships between two colors? That’s what the color wheel is meant to teach us.

Web Color Wheel - Shades 20%

Shades are created when black is added to the base hue. In Photoshop, you can place a black layer above a color and reduce the opacity of the black layer. That’s what I did here. The black layer is at 20 percent opacity.

Web Color Wheel - Tints 30%

Tints are created when white is added to the base hue. In Photoshop, you can place a white layer above a color and reduce the opacity of the white layer. That’s what I did here. The white layer is at 30 percent opacity.

Web Color Wheel - Tertiary Colors

The six tertiary colors are more interesting than the other six colors on the wheel (that is, the primary and secondary colors). Try choosing one of these and then working with two tints and two shades of the one you chose.

Web Color Wheel - Secondary Colors

The three secondary colors are slightly more interesting than the primary colors. Again, these should not be used together in design (in most cases). Choose one for accents, perhaps, for use in a design with several shades or tints of one complementary color.

Web Color Wheel - Primary Colors

The three primary colors make us think of toys for small children. These colors are simple. They are not terribly interesting. One used alone in a mostly gray design — or a black-and-white design — can have a very strong effect. But otherwise, think hard before you use these colors.

Color Wheel - Full

The color wheel was invented by Isaac Newton (1642-1726). He worked with the spectrum of visible light, for which the range of colors goes from red to violet (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet — a six-color sequence that can be memorized as ROY G. BV).

Jul
20th

Mon

The Author Of The Windows Copy File Dialog Visits Some Friends

Jul
17th

Fri

Clean CSS - A Resource for Web Designers - Optmize and Format your CSS

CSS Formatter and Optimiser (based on csstidy1.1)

The same selectors and properties are automatically merged.

Your code should be well-formed. This is no validator which points out errors in your CSS code. To make sure that your code is valid, use the W3C Validator.