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- Author
- Daniel Malmqvist
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- Mon 28 Apr 2008 at 23:46
Today we are going to create a simple and stylish content box using CSS and Adobe Photoshop! Many people don't realise the possibilities of combining Photoshop and CSS. So today we are going to make a basic content box using CSS and then style it using Photoshop! You ready? Great, let's get this thing going!
CSS
We will start off with the HTML for our box:
<div id="content">
<h1>Your Header</h1>
<p>
Your text goes here.
</p>
</div>
Now, if you save this and look at it, it looks p…
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- Author
- Ethan Poole
- Date
- Tue 15 Apr 2008 at 7:19
IBM just recently published a fantastic article about planning a semantic website, covering existing ways to code semantic markup. Most useful in this article is using existing technologies to make your website semantic today, without interfering with the existing experience of your users. Most useful in my opinion are microformats, which can be easily implemented; although, granted, there is little utilisation of them yet in web browsers. Also important is the semantic URI, which is certainly an issue on many websites, with these forever co…
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- Author
- Ethan Poole
- Date
- Thu 10 Apr 2008 at 9:44
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Sitepoint just recently published a new article about some cool CSS techniques: Tomorrow's CSS Today: 8 Techniques They Don't Want You To Know. Overall, the article presents some documentation on various CSS selectors and goodies that you might find interesting. Not all of them have great browser support, but the article shows examples of how they degrade peacefully in non-supported browsers. Personally, I wish the attribute selectors of CSS worked across browsers as they would be extremely useful for so many things. For example, on Lowter,…
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- Author
- Ethan Poole
- Date
- Mon 7 Apr 2008 at 13:54
PHP lacks a definite way to detect the MIME type of a file across each PHP version. Older versions of PHP use the mime_content_type() function, whereas more recent versions encourage the use of the Fileinfo set of functions. These variations present a difficulty when developing an application that must work across multiple versions and installations of PHP. In order to solve this problem, I use the following code to create a function to check the MIME type of a file regardless of the development environment:
<?php
// Setup replaceme…
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- Author
- Ethan Poole
- Date
- Wed 2 Apr 2008 at 18:40
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Today marks the four year anniversary of Lowter! It certainly has been a great four years chatting with good friends on the forums and watching the site grow immensely. For some of our older members, this blog post should remind you of some of Lowter's earlier days and for others it gives a perspective into Lowter's development. It is interesting to see how the site has developed from Lowter Studios (a mere hobby site) into the Lowter we know today.
Using archive.org, my own code archives, and other resources, I have drawn together some s…
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