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Website Background Question
OK...I'm sure this is an EASY one for the designers here...
Most of the sites I've built have used fairly simple gradient backgrounds, with small sliced images to reduce load time.
Now, I've found some great textures in the .pat format (Photoshop patterns) that I'd like to use. My problem is they're quite large and I'm still learning my way around Photoshop (still using Fireworks primarily).
These patterns are 740x740 (and larger)...but even if I compress them heavily...they're still around 100-300kb. Any suggestions?
Here's a link to the images: http://webtreatsetc.deviantart.com/art/Retro-Grunge-Wallpaper-Pattens-125020804...
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Need a simple Flash ad made for free
I have no experience with flash, but I wanted to make a simple flash ad for Catholictuner, is there anyone who would be willing to do it for me?
info (et) catholictuner.com
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Google Real Time Search Goes Live
Simply amazing! Google has been very impressive of late, introducing Wave, Google Voice, and Google Docs improvements. Now they have real-time search, which pushes updates as they happen around the web (from Twitter, Facebook, and other sites) into your search results.
Here's a sample search result for 'Google real time search' - watch for about 10 seconds and you'll see a steady stream of new results. Then post a Tweet while you're watching, and prepare to be amazed!
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CKEditor Installed instead of FCKEditor
Today OSC has been updated to use CKEditor rather than FCKEditor in all the text input areas. CKEditor (at least, in my testing) loads much faster due to rewritten javascript, and looks a little cleaner (dare I say, more OSC-like?) than the aging FCKEditor.
I've considered using the WYSIWYG API along with TinyMCE, but the dedicated CKEditor module seems to be pretty great.
Let me know if you encounter any big problems!
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Virb
Is anyone else on Virb/tried it out? I really dig the aesthetics and some of the functionalities. I'm just wondering if the only reason it doesn't catch on like wildfire is b/c of Facebook's and MySpace's monopoly.
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"He sends his own personal emails!"
[He] sends his own personal emails. He does!
So says Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, confirming that Pope Benedict XVI is technologically savvy. (As seen in Our Sunday Visitor).
Just like the art of letter-writing, people can tell when you are being personal, when you are actually giving your own time and your own words to a response. How many times have you emailed or written a politician, or a famous person, and received either a form-generated response, or something that sounds canned?...
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FireFox Starts Taking Larger Marketshare
Despite Microsoft including Internet Explorer in all its operating systems, people are installing FireFox as their default browser at an astonishing rate. I take pride in the fact that all but two of the sites I help maintain have already seen FireFox (and sometimes even Safari) overtake Explorer (all versions combined) as the most used browser.
FireFox far surpasses IE on any even remotely tech-oriented website.
The sites that still get more Explorer traffic are parish and Archdiocesan websites (which are typically visited by an older demographic, and/or people who...
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