Articles tagged with “Graphics”
- Fake Slifer Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards on Ebay
- Believe it or not, one of my most popular posts here at Perishable Press is an article I wrote about a counterfeit Slifer Yu-Gi-Oh! card. Since its publication, I have received some very interesting information regarding the apparently extensive market for fake Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. Recently, reader Deana wrote to share her experience with an eBay purchase of a “very good counterfeit” Slifer card on eBay.
As a savvy Yu-Gi-Oh! collector, Deana has purchased ...
- Focus on the Details: Optimizing Images for Humans and Machines
- In this article, I discuss how to get the most out of your site’s images by optimizing them for both people and search engines..
For many sites, images play an important role in the communication process. If used correctly, images have the power to make your articles come alive with clarity and vibrancy. Some visitors may merely notice the image and continue reading, while others will want to ...
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Favicons
- Fifty Favorite Favicons If you have a website, you need a favicon. For those who may not know, favicons are the small, square icons that frequently are associated with websites. Favicons appear in many places, including browser toolbars, bookmarks, tabs, and address bars. Favicons provide immediate visual identification of their represented sites, enabling super-easy navigation for Web users. While ...
- 88Teeth Site Redesign
- [ Detail of 88teeth’s revamped “Manoid” ] Longtime friend and fellow-DLa member ThaneC recently has updated his personal/portfolio site, eightyeightteeth.com. ThaneC’s site has been completely redesigned and reorganized, featuring easy navigation and generous presentation of core content. Every page is overflowing with creative juice — thumbnail ...
- A Delightful Romp through the 2007 PDX Zine Symposium
- [ Keywords: dla, zines, zines, zinesters, symposium, convention, pdx, portland, diy, comics, poetry ]
Some friends and I recently gathered in Portland, Oregon for the 2007 PDX Zine Symposium. Held on the lush campus of Portland State University, this was the seventh annual zine convention, featuring an abundance of tablers, zinesters, and visitors. Although we did not purchase a display table ...
- Digging the Ditch Witch
- [ Keywords: ditch, witch, chainsaw, trench, digger, warning, danger, sticker, decal, chunk ]
Ditch Witch, I think I love you.. On my never-ending quest for fresh graphical chunks, many a ridiculous warning sticker have caught my eye. Upon encountering such gems, I immediately slip into stealth mode and plan for attack. Once the stage is set and the time is ...
- Wild Bill Recommends: Bizarre Flash Diversions
- "Indeed.." "Perhaps it’s time for a bizarre diversion..."
Wild Bill recommends these bizarre Flash websites for your personal entertainment, education, and enjoyment:
monoface For a few delightful moments of splendid online fun, prance on over to the hilariously interactive Flash interface currently on display at monoface. Once there, click the "shuffle face" link a few times to get the general idea, ...
- Dazzle, Marvel and Wonder
- One of our favorite command-line screensavers, DAZZLE is a two-dimensional kaleidoscopic program featuring a timeless display of perpetually evolving psychedelic viewscapes. Users may interactively manipulate over thirty image-creation algorithms, or set the program to automatically generate hours of dynamically morphing displays of colorful patterns and geometrically complex graphics.
...the best kaleidoscope program we’ve seen yet. The beautiful use of colors, enhanced even further by the use of fading in and out, is, for want of a better ...
- Feed your Image via Atom or RSS
- This quick tutorial explains how to add images to both Atom and RSS feeds. Although both formats allow for image-inclusion, feed-reader support for image-display is currently quite limited. Hopefully, that will change in the near future..
Images for Atom Feeds
Images included within Atom feeds must have a ratio of either 1:1 or 2:1. There are no other restrictions as to file type or size. Use the XML element for URL’s targeting 1:1 images. Otherwise, use the ...
- Chunks 101: Introduction to Chunkology
- We are continually on the prowl for fresh chunks -- whether it’s business or pleasure, day or night, scanning the immediate environment for tasty visual gems is a constant delight. Perhaps you find yourself lulling over tacky magazines at the dentist’s office, when suddenly -- out of the corner of your eye -- you notice it: a small triangular decal attached to the side of the waiting-room television warning people about something with an absolutely ridiculous icon ...
- Wild Bill Recommends: Top-Shelf Linkage
- "Indeed.." "Generative artifacts, graffiti archaeology, and interactive chaos, anyone?"
Wild Bill recommends these highly addictive, interactive websites for your personal entertainment, enjoyment, and enrichment:
Gallery of Computation
This site peeled my hat back. I am completely enamoured and will most likely spend vast amounts of time exploring the endless creative potential opened up through this remarkable online experience. The Gallery of Computation takes computer-generated graphical artifacts and algorithmic ...
- Counterfeit Slifer Yu-Gi-Oh Card
- Recently, my son traded three common Yu-Gi-Oh cards for the coveted Slifer god card. He was very excited, thinking he worked the deal of a lifetime. Indeed, Slifer cards sell for around $35.00 apiece, depending on the dealer. Nonetheless, trading three worthless cards for a Slifer god card seemed like a phenomenal deal..
What we discovered next nearly dropped us to the floor -- the Slifer card was a counterfeit! Within moments of checking it out, Mom immediately ...
- Preloading Images with CSS and JavaScript
- Fast-loading pages reduce errors, conserve bandwidth, and please visitors. One way to decrease loading times and enhance performance involves maximizing image display efficiency. Your mantra for achieving image efficiency should be "reuse, optimize, and preload.". While each of these methods plays an important role, this article will focus on methods for preloading images. Consult your server error logs to identify web pages that may require image help. Note: preloading images does not reduce bandwidth! It only decreases ...
- Extreme Makeover for Gravatars in WordPress
- Strategic Methods for Improving Gravatar Functionality in WordPress
Gravatars have become a popular way of adding spice to the "comments" page of many WordPress-powered sites. So popular, in fact, that the gravatar server is often overloaded, bogged down with millions of gravatar requests every second. This immense server load effects user pages everywhere, resulting in slow loading times, unresolved server requests, and missing gravatars. Such broken presentations appear unprofessional, tarnish reputations, and may provoke ...
- Inspiring Shockwave Nonsense
- ertdfgcvb.ch Check out the intriguing Shockwave site at ertdfgcvb.ch.
- Digital Flower Maker
- Star Burst Check out the slick online digital flower maker at zefrank.com.
- Toilet Huffing
- When all else fails..
- Press Color Archive
- Our official location for dumping notable color swatches:
| #1A1A1A
| #383838
| #666677
| #E1E1E1
| #F0F0F0
| #F2F2F2
| #F3F3F3
| #FFFFEE
| #CCDDAA
- A Nice Collection of Feed Icons
- Here is a nice collection of feed icons. All are in PNG format, and all have transparent backgrounds (Although they may not appear as transparent if you are viewing via Internet Explorer). Download them individually or as a zipped set. In addition to the icons displayed below, the zipped set also includes two 500x500-pixel feed icons, one in standard orange and the other in greyscale. Please save these to your server ...
- Imported Graffiti Art in the Desert Oasis
- Aside from an occasional gang squirt, Moses Lake, Washington has no graffiti art scene of which to speak. Yes, there are many vast, open walls available for inspired artists to develop into colorful statements of creative expression. However, city officials and general public opinion frown on graffiti art as worthless, wicked vandalism. Granted, the city does offer several commissioned murals, mainly scenic visions of the ordinary rural variety. Unfortunately, those of us craving authentic expressions of genuine ...
- New Online Vector Drawing Tool
- LiTha-Paint Quality web-based vector drawing in effect. Check out LiTha-Paint, a promising new online vector drawing tool. The software is currently in alpha, yet is already full-featured and easy to use. LiTha-Paint steps beyond the paltry selection of Flash/VML/SVG online drawing tools, providing versatility and universality via HTML and JavaScript platform. Perhaps all this Web 2.0 business is worthwhile after all..
Update: Unfortunately, LiTha-Paint crashed due to lack of funds ...
- Website Cluster Graphs
- Ever imagine your website represented as a cluster graph? Well prepare your DOM and check out Sala’s Websites as Graphs project. Each map represents a single website page, each dot represents a different tag, and each color represents a different set of tags. Here is the graphical representation for Perishable Press:
Perishable Press DOM Graph
- Modern Turdz
- Modernista!
File under: Inspiration, Creativity, Graphics, and Flash: Modernista!
- Electric Sheep and the ASCII Matrix
- Electric Sheep
Paying homage to Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? via collective screensaver morphology: electricsheep.org.
Plus, be sure to experience this moving ASCII rendition of the “bullet-dodging” scene from The Matrix: ASCII Matrix Scene.