Glitch Art (Part 1: The Basic Databend)
How to Implement DoubleClick Floodlight Tags
If you work with HTML, you may have come across DoubleClick tags before. For those who don’t know, DoubleClick Floodlight is one method used by advertisers to track traffic on a web page, either through page views or clicks on a certain button. If you’ve tried to implement Floodlight tags before, you may know just how difficult they can be. This guide is to help aid the process of placing these tags correctly in your code!
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[TUTORIAL] How To Choose Between Four Color Or Spot Color Printing
During a recent project, I ran into some bumps while prepping an Adobe Illustrator file for a printer. After a bit of research, I was able to answer a lot of my own questions regarding the differences between a Four Color Printing and Spot Color Printing. I’ve decided to take that experience and translate it into a few tips that will hopefully help anyone faced with a similar situation.
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Fun Facts for Printing
Have you ever noticed those little black crosshairs on packages? How about the dots or squares in different colors? These weird little symbols aren’t as out of place as you may think.
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Billboards: 3 Simple Rules
I live in Los Angeles. For better or for worse, I spend a large portion of my time in my car. When you drive a lot, you see a lot of billboards. When you see a lot of billboards, you forget most of them. What is the last billboard you can remember seeing? Do you remember the product? Do you remember what the product does? Every day when I drive I take note of the billboards on my route (safely, of course) and think about what’s working for them and what isn’t. I’ve collected my thoughts and some advice I’ve been given on the art of writing them in this post, which I hope you find helpful.
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How to Make a Halloween Pumpkin Keg – Animated GIFs
Here are some animated GIFs that can help you make your very own Pumpkin Keg for Halloween!
Bokeh Inspired Tutorial
Bokeh is the blurred effect you see in a photo when things are out-of-focus. In certain cases where the out-of-focus area contains a lot of light and different colors, the blurriness can create an interesting aesthetic that is pretty to look at. Bokeh has made its way from photos to the digital space as made evident by an abundance of bokeh-inspired wallpapers available for desktops and mobile phones. Here are some examples of bokeh in photography: Example 1, Example 2, Example 3, Example 4, Example 5.
The goal of this tutorial is to create an abstract bokeh-inspired wallpaper like the one displayed above.
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[TUTORIAL] 3D Engines in Flash: How to Build a Room Using Away3D 4.0
It is common practice to use Flash to build 3D applications. For example, papervision3D is one of the most popular 3D engines that is widely supported and easy to use for this purpose. However, all of these 3D engines are CPU-based so they can be extremely slow in terms of performance. In Flash Player 11, stage3D API allows a hardware-accelerated architecture to bring 3D performance to the next level.
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Smarter Styling with CSS Preprocessors
In software development we always try to follow rules and best practices to produce better products by minimizing code. One of the most popular mantras is the D.R.Y (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle and states the following:
Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system.
Of course, it is not always easy to perfectly follow this principle. For example, this can become difficult in front-end development and, more precisely, when it comes to CSS.
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Brownie-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
I love chocolate chip cookies and I love brownies. So when I stumbled across a recipe for a brownie-stuffed chocolate chip cookie, I knew I had to try and bake some.
Spoiler Alert: These cookies turned out monstrously huge.
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