Category Archives: Web Design

My Current Local Developement Environment

Here’s my setup:

13″ Macbook 2-1 with 4GB Ram and 2.16mhz Dual Core processor
24″ Samsung HD flatscreen external monitor
Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04
Firefox 3.x with Firebug, YSLow, and CodeBurner
XAMPP for PHP, MySQL, and Apache
VirtualBox with 4 virtual machines: Windows XP with IE 6, 7,  and 8, plus OSX running Safari
Gimp and Inkscape for graphics
Gedit with snippets enabled [...]

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Dark PNGs in Safari

For whatever reason, sometimes the transparent parts of PNGs appear darker in Safari than in other browsers.  You can fix it by removing all the color correction metadata from the images with pngcrush:
pngcrush -rem gAMA -rem cHRM -rem iCCP -rem sRGB InputFile.png OutputFile.png
pngcrush is a command line tool that optimizes (read: makes smaller) PNG images. [...]

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Columns of text should not be flexible

There are examples of flexible layouts that work, but they do not have flexible columns of text, they have static width columns that move when the window is resized.  So when the window is wide, the content fills in that space, when the window is narrow, the page gets long and narrow.  These sites are [...]

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