My Articles
Purloining and Pilfering: An article on graphic and bandwidth theft, how to tell if someone is stealing from you, and what to do about it. (November 1997)
Introduction to PSP 5: A 45 page ‘how-to’ article on the Jasc Software, Inc graphic program Paint Shop Pro 5. (April 1998)
Putting Style Sheets In Perspective: An ongoing series covering CSS2, it’s structure and how to ‘make it work’ with HTML. (June 1998)
Adobe Photoshop 5.5 - WebDeveloper.com REVIEW - (Sept. 1999) With the release of Photoshop 5.5, Adobe has once again ensured its position as the world-standard for image editing. Not to be left behind, Adobe has tightly integrated two great programs, Photoshop 5.0 and ImageReady 2.0, to produce a software package that is the Web developer’s dream, allowing you to take your images from creation to print to the Web while achieving the highest quality in both media.
The Dastardly “favicon.ico not found” Error: There have been two burning questions among developers recently: “What is that favicon.ico not found error that is filling my Error_log?” and “How do I get a custom icon next to my bookmark link in Internet Explorer?” These may sound like unrelated questions, yet both can be answered at the same time. (August, 1999)
Introduction to Sever Side Includes: Are you the harried, overworked web designer who just learned that the boss wants across-the-board changes to a thousand page website? Learn how to update an entire website by editing a single file, add date and time dynamically and more! (May 2000)
Paint Shop Pro 6 Review: If you’re using Paint Shop Pro 5 it’s time to upgrade, if you’re still stuck in PSP4 it’s definitely time to get your life back on track and move forward with what may well be the best graphics program available for the money. (July 2000)
Into the Beyond with PSP7 Paint Shop Pro 7 is a stoke of genius on the part of Jasc Software. Who would have thought they could find any more features to add, or have improved on the existing features… but they did! Just take a quick look at what’s new… (August 2000)
Slicing and Dicing with PSP 7: Slicing images up into sections for placement in a table has been the webdevelopers bane since it was first discovered that cool designs could be created with tables, and images would load faster if they were cut up into smaller pieces. Definitely not a fun time, but Jasc has come to the rescue with it’s latest release of Paint Shop Pro! PSP7 includes several new web features, one of which is a slicer that handles the job very well. (October 2000)
Victory with Vectors; or How to Create Curved Text with PSP7: Creating vector text can be as simple or as complicated as you want to make it. For most of us, creating text on a path and fitting existing text to a path is all we’ll ever need. For the adventurous, there is a brief introduction to converting text to curves included at the end of this article. (November 2000)
