Tuesday, February 19, 2008   —   Vienna 0 Comments

I've posted some more screenshots and illustrations from "The Dark Gloriole" video game.

Monday, January 14, 2008   —   Vienna 0 Comments

This article demonstrates how to use PHP to generated title and caption images on the fly...

When a web designer wanted to display text as an image, the procedure would commonly begin with something in the vain of "open Photoshop..." But in the new web of dynamic content and massive scale, this approach won't work.

In most cases, an image text is used to display titles and headings. The example below is of the Apple's iPhone Developer Center.

Thursday, January 03, 2008   —   Vienna 0 Comments

This article will show you how to create thumbnails dynamically. For example, these three images have been dynamically generated from the same source.

The above images are generated with a URL like this one: www.petrosalema.com/blog/articles/burger_thumb_100.jpg; where 100 is changeable.

The benefits of being able to dynamically generate images of varying size from a single source file are too obvious to get into. But I will mention that I'v done some research and websites like Amazon, Wikipedia, IMDb, iStockPhoto, and Flickr, where there are large numbers of images to manage, all use this approach.

Below are images of varying size dynamically generated image from Wikipedia using this URL pattern: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Hamburger_sandwich.jpg/100px- Again, to generate each image 100 is simply changes to the desired width which in this case was 200 and 300.

Wednesday, January 02, 2008   —   Vienna 0 Comments

Friday, July 20, 2007   —   Vienna 0 Comments

This tutorial is going to show you how to overlay a textbox on an image, like this. It's pretty straight forward, so I'm simply going to post the CSS and some exmaple HTML to give you an idea.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006   —   Vienna 0 Comments

Screenshot from The Dig. One of my favorite computer games of all time. Great times!