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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 apparent load time, thereby enhancing user experience. Preloading via the CSS Display Property This method is a very common method for preloading images via the CSS display: none; directive. To use this method, first add the ...

Folder Background Images in WinXP

This brief tutorial explains how to add a background image to any folder in Windows XP. First, make sure all hidden files are visible on your system. Then, open the folder for which you wish to add a background image. Within the folder, right-click and select Properties » Customize tab » Customize. There, choose any icon, click Apply and OK. That process should have created a "desktop.ini" file. Open that file with a text editor and add these lines of code: [ExtShellFolderViews] {BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC} [{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}] IconArea_Image=C:\path\folder\background.jpg To customize this according to your needs, edit the path in the last line to reflect to the location of the image you wish to use as the background image for that folder. ...

Press Color Archive

Our official location for dumping notable color swatches: | #1A1A1A | #383838 | #666677 | #E1E1E1 | #F0F0F0 | #F2F2F2 | #F3F3F3 | #FFFFEE | #CCDDAA

sIFR Notes Plus

Here are a few sIFR Notes for Perishable Press. Just what are we looking at here? Well, first it is important to understand the sIFR variables and the order in which they should appear: (sSelector, sFlashSrc, sColor, sLinkColor, sHoverColor, sBgColor, nPaddingTop, nPaddingRight, nPaddingBottom, nPaddingLeft, sFlashVars, sCase, sWmode) The variable, sFlashVars consists of the following sub-variables (these should be seperated with an & sign: # Align Flash text block textalign=center # Moves text any number of pixels to the right offsetLeft=3 # Moves text any number of pixels down offsetTop=3 # Adds underline links when hovered underline=true Then, inducing from the following code example, we should place a similar set of statements at the bottom ...

Lightbox Notes

To add Lightbox functionality to any single image: Add rel="lightbox" to the anchor tag. Add a title="" attribute to the anchor tag. Add an alt="" attribute to the image tag. To add Lightbox functionality to any series of images: Add rel="lightbox[value]" to the anchor tag of each image. Add a title="" attribute to the anchor tag of each image. Add an alt="" attribute to the image tag of each image. Any set of pictures with the same rel="lightbox[value]" will display with nav buttons.

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 (I wish this idiot would quit changing the URL!).

Moses Lake Sunsets

One of the best things about living among the sand people..