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Stop the Skype plugin from breaking your design

Skype logo

It took me a bit of searching to find this line of code to stop the Skype browser plug-in from automatically styling all the telephone numbers in your [...]

favicon generator

I am usually really quick to share links to cool sites and utilities, but I am somehow hesitant to share this one… it is just too cool!

A “favicon” is the little icon that you will see appear in various places in your browser – if it is available it will replace the standard Firefox / [...]

background pattern for webpage

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I have created a background pattern for the site using Photoshop. By creating a small image that you can tile (repeat), you are able to avoid using a large image. This is how I did it:

Fire-up Photoshop.
Create a new, square canvas – I started at 200 x 200.
Choose an image that you would like to [...]

image formats for the web

PNG filetype icon

So I have been fiddling a bit with image formats. Most of us know that (and for those of you who don’t…) JPGs are most suited to photos and other images, and GIFs best for logos etc. GIF’s have the added advantage of being able to contain transparent areas.

So when PNGs came along I was [...]

the favicon

favicon

The “favicon” is the little icon that appears in the address bar (along with the URL) and in the tab (of a tabbed browser), or the title bar of other browsers, replacing the generic browser icon.

As more and more people switch over to “tabbed browsers” like Firefox and Internet Explorer 7, the favicon occupies more [...]