Today Tony suggested that I put in a nice scrolling javascript testimonial section on slicemydesign.com. It features a scrolling preview of all the testimonials on the frontpage. With a bit of javascript and some css styling from Dynamic Drive, I was able to provide a nice and simple display of all my thumbs up!
If you are wanting a quick and simple way of creating a favicon for your website, check out the Dynamic Drive FavIcon Generator. The great thing about it is that you don’t need any knowledge of photoshop or icon software! Just download an image you like, upload it and you’re all done.
Hopefully those of you that have been racking your brains trying to figure out why your colors in a PNG file don’t match those in a GIF or JPG, will find this small article useful. I ran across this problem when trying to use a PNG file to overlay a page background image was another file type such as GIF or JPG when both images needed to represent the same color. Firefox typically renders the images correctly, but I’ve found that IE6 and Safari have problems with it. To deal with the problem you need to remove the Gamma from the PNG file. Fortunately I ran across a program that will remove it for you: pngcrush.
The program can be downloaded for Windows and runs in command line DOS. If you are familiar with command line, just enter the following code (replacing infile and outfile with your file names):
pngcrush -rem gAMA -rem cHRM -rem iCCP -rem sRGB infile.png outfile.png
Refresh your page and watch the colors match :)
I’ve decided since I’ve had quite a bit of success with SliceMyDesign, I should start a streamlined design service for those that need low-cost web design in a hurry. It’s mainly for people who purchase old websites that want a new look to their site in order to increase traffic. I wanted to tie it in to my current business with the same theme, so I came up with FlipMyDesign. If you know anyone who needs this type of service, send them my way!