Category Archives: design
Nodes: Inserting Images
While Drupal provides a lot of extensions and gimmicks, one of the big downsides currently is image handling. Basic image handling, like inserting images into a node’s body field are quite the task to achieve – there’s plenty of approaches but almost all fail at some point. Mostly because of bugs or lack of basic [...]
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Byebye IE6
I am really really tempted to officially drop IE6/5.5/5 support and just show those browsers a big, huge “UPDATE NOW” image ASAP. I can’t tell you *how* very excited I am that it seems like IE6 is going to vanish probably during the next 6 months or so. Life is going to be so easy. [...]
iPhone game “iFluenza” available!
We just published our first iPhone game in the AppStore: iFluenza is finally available. :) Here’s a little gameplay video. “We” being Michu Vogt who did all the coding and yours truly, responsible for the weird colors and music. ;)
iFluenza – just another iPhone game…
Save the world! Stop the evil virus. Kill all viruses and [...]
Drupal: Columns for the Body
Probably not entirely groundbreaking, but a nice way to achieve nice layouts using Drupal + WYSIWYG occured to me about 3 projects ago when I was trying to figure out a way of haveing multiple columns in a page’s body field. Sure, you can do the same thing by using CCK and define a couple [...]
My Drupal Arsenal V1.1
I previously introduced you to a list of my favourite plugins. Some time has passed and I am able to present to you an updated version of it. New plugins are marked with *, removed plugins are marked with † and the “swiss knife of modules” is marked with a +. Keep in mind that [...]
Drupal: Session, Cache and other Mysteries
Drupal is a nice and massive tool for deploying websites, but not everything is perfect, as we all know:
Session Management: Drupal’s session management is somehow inconsistent. But as I found out later on, it is due to the fact that IE sucks. However, this should be a known problem and the workaround is to have [...]
Erratic Calibration Results
Thank god, my eyes aren’t messed up: It was just a bad calibration device. I tried to match both of my screens yesterday and I couldn’t figure out why the heck a calibration target of D65 has a huge tonal difference on my iMac monitor and on my Eizo CG242W2 – apparently, my eyes didn’t [...]
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GUI shame: Touchpanels
I’m currently doing a lot of design-work for high-end touchpanels. One should expect that a touchpanel in the price range of around 3′000$ to 5′000$ each should be able to render truetype fonts smoothly. Bad luck: AMX doesn’t even support OpenType fonts to date and looks as bas as Crestron-rendered fonts. This is really disappointing. [...]
The IE7-js project
“…make MSIE behave like a standards-compliant browser.”
I’ve come across this little script which can be loaded in a conditional statement in your website’s header, to enable old IE versions (<=7) to display certain CSS properties correctly. This will help you to reduce the amount of CSS you have to rewrite for classic IE browsers: The IE7-js [...]
Xenocode Browser Sandbox
On this website, you can run a browser based “virtual machine” which loads IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Opera and Safari (all for Windows). Only problem: Requires Windows and IE to run. But still: quite handy if you don’t want to mess around with your installation of win/IE (in my case, the VM running on OSX [...]
BNZ18: Shirts arrived
The new T-Shirts finally arrived. Unlock sent me this picture. Looks cool. Remember, you can order them. :-)
InDesign CS4: ME & RTL
Und sie dreht sich doch: Wer sich keine “ME” Version von InDesign kaufen will und nur ein paar Absätze layouten muss, kann sich hier informieren, wie das denn gehen soll: Ein Beitrag in deutsch und auch was in englisch zum Thema. Und noch ein gratis Tipp: UTF8 is your friend.
Proofs: Epson Stylus Photo R2880
Now this took me about 2 days to figure. Most Epson printers don’t support any sort of PostScript printing. You will notice that once you try to print a page from Illustrator or InDesign: The printer-icon shows up in the dock, just to disappear 10 seconds later. Meanwhile, the printer makes a little rumba – [...]
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Wallpaper: Fullmoon
Here’s a wallpaper for your wide screen. Took this shoot on a foggy night, while trying to take photos for a HDR image composition (which turned out quite crappy, but it was my first try ;) ). I was quite happy about the result so I decided to post the image as a desktop background.
You [...]
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Epson R2880: Proofing 2.0