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 [...]
Read MoreAlign 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 [...]
Read MoreSoftware 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 [...]
Read MoreWordPress 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, [...]
Read MoreBlogging: 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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Christina Sng worked as a web developer, information architect, account executive, producer, technical writer, and usability consultant in the 10 years (that's 30 years in Internet time!) she brought bread home. She has since retired to raise her children but still spends most of her waking hours on the net, no thanks to Apple. Here are some of her adventures.