http://www.goowik.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:11:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello, I'm truly amazed how well my blog keeps having visitors. I recently checked my blog and apparently I have an average of 400 visitors a day even though I haven't updated it since 2008. Therefor, I'll do my best to redesign the whole website and start blogging again. I'm truly sorry for not having ... http://www.goowik.com/?p=212 Welcome to the second part of organising your workspace. If you haven't read the first part go check it out. To summarise: In the first part we actually setup FireFox to optimize our research on web design. Today we'll be talking about photoshop and how to optimize it. 2. PhotoShop "Adobe Photoshop, or ... http://www.goowik.com/?p=203 I'm quite impressed by the number of unique visitors on my blog! Rougly between 500 and 1250.  I'm really happy that people can benefit from the posts that are on my blog. I already told this and I'll say it again: If you have any suggestions please do mail ... http://www.goowik.com/?p=198 Icon is a graphic interface element, a small picture, which represents an application, file, directory, operation system component, device etc. When the user clicks the icon, a standard action is usually performed (run application, open file etc.) Icons were invented in 1970 in the Xerox Research Center in Palo Alto to ... http://www.goowik.com/?p=182 "Bloggers Unite is an attempt to harness the power of the blogosphere to make the world a better place. By asking bloggers to write about a particular subject on 1 day of the month, a single voice can be joined with thousands to help make a difference; from raising awareness ... http://www.goowik.com/?p=173 I've always been fascinated by these large backgrounds you sometimes find on movie websites. They can be a real eye catcher. But the problem most people tend to ignore are to make the contour of their image the same colour as their background. A bad example would be like this: Another ... http://www.goowik.com/?p=168 "Sprites were originally invented as a method of quickly compositing several images together in two-dimensional video games using special hardware." Sprites were used back in the Nintendo age. Developpers used them to prevent loading several images each time a character moved or entered the screen. All movements/characters were set on one ... http://www.goowik.com/?p=133 "As the popularity of CSS grows, so does interest in making additions to the specification." CSS3 is still under development, if you want to follow the progress report, click here. Yes, as you can see it's still not finished after all those years. The first public introduction was in 2006 is ... http://www.goowik.com/?p=116 "Web colors are colors used in designing web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors." Colors can be represented in two ways. Each of these two has also different representations. So let's first start with the most used of all: Hex Triplet: #XXXXXX The 'code' consist of 6 digits or ... http://www.goowik.com/?p=94 no, they shouldn't. Offcourse there are exceptions, more of this afterwards. people tend to forget the new tab/window was opened and hit the back-button mercilessly without any result. They also don't like to deal with dozens of tabs/windows. People should be in control! This is also one of the main fundamentels ... http://www.goowik.com/?p=90