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Archive for August, 2007

Using Ruby to Scrape a Web Page

Monday, August 6th, 2007

I recently needed to grab a web page and check if a certain string existed on that page. Here is how to achieve that task simply. You can easily take this example and incorporate it into your Ruby on Rails application.

Web 2.0 Colors CSS Template

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

When you are in the design phase, you may find that while your layout and flow is perfect, the colors still need to be tweaked.. and often. To help make that process easier, I've taken the Web 2.0 color swatches I created for Photoshop and Gimp and created a Web ...

ThemBid.com Selected As TechCrunch 2.0 Finalist

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

ThemBid.com was chosen as a finalist out of a pool of near 700 applicants from 26 different countries. If you are attending, make sure to visit our booth at the Demo Pit. More details will follow in subsequent blog posts.

Creating Web 2.0 Buttons in Linux with Xara Xtreme

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Web graphics designers running GNU/Linux seem to use the Gimp, Inkscape or Photoshop in a virtual environment. I have found the feature rich Xara Xtreme to be a good alternative for web graphics creation and editing. It is open source and you can download it here. Following is a short ...

How To Speed Up Mockup Creation With Photoshop Actions

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

If you are practicing a RAD methodology, you should be able to iterate quickly. While during the early stages of prototyping the "looks" are not so important, it can help if you can already have some extra design flavor in your initial prototypes. One way to make that happen is ...