Design
Diptic Photo Collage iPhone App Review

Our favourite photo collage app is updated with a ton of brand new frames! Awesome! Diptic has one of the best basic but useful wysiwyg in-app photo editing functions. Brightness, contrast, saturation, and the ability to do a mirror image and adjust the width and colour of the border. Collage apps are rare. Great collage [...]

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Posted on 31st July 2010No Comments
Align it Right in WordPress

When fixing your alignment from the left, don’t forget to specify an equal white space distance from the right too. As you’ve probably noticed, I have added Twitter updates on the top right hand box there to humanise the blog a little. -> The default setting in Stylesheet flushed it right against the margin which [...]

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Posted on 26th May 2008No Comments
Software Review: Picasa

Picasa rocks because it is an offline photo album, photo editor, and online photo sharing service. The usability is amazing. The good: There’s seamless integration from the time you download your pics from your SD card, fast and intuitive sorting into albums, one-touch (or two if you’re fussy) editing where it also saves your original [...]

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Posted on 1st May 2008No Comments
WordPress Coding Tips: Alignment around Images

In WordPress, you’ll need to find an alternative to the usual hspace and vspace tags. Here’s a great suggestion from the WordPress Codex. In the stylesheet, paste this: img.left { padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0; display: inline; } And in your markup code in whichever file you’re editing, e.g. About, in my case, [...]

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Posted on 11th April 2008No Comments
Blogging: Branding and Design

Aside from your branding, your design (and in this case for WordPress, theme) is the most important part of your blog. Your brand, and I may cite John Chow, who successfully marketed himself as a “dot com mogul” alluding to wealth and prosperity, is the most important thing about your blog. That makes people come [...]

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Posted on 30th March 2008No Comments