Daily Goodie: If you crash, Crash big.

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I thought this was sort of hilarious and deserved sharing…

Flash Player 9 crashed… and crashed big – right in the middle of the Times Square.

Credit: Zoli’s Blog & Andy Flynn & Michael Krigsman

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November Galleries’ Alexa Rankings

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Another month goes by. Here are the updated Alexa rankings of 143 gallery sites.

2 New Gallery Websites were added since last time: Nice Stylesheet and LoopPress.

Daily Goody – Website of Ted Lermontov

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I’ve been browsing through my collection of links, and I have found this website – A Portfolio Website of Ted Lermontov. I liked this website for several reasons…

First of all, the color choice is very catching and contrast is great. Personally, I like the combination of colors where black is a major part of it.

Secondly, graphics are clear and without pixelation.

Thirdly, clean layout.

What I would change is the font color of the footer links. At this point there are set to dark gray, which makes it hard to read against the black background.

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Current Readings

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Following Sean Voisen’s post, I am going to display a list of books I am currently reading as well.
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As you can tell I read a great variety of books. :) I love reading and try to read any moment I can.

Here is a list of those books pictured above from the top to bottom:

The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova.
The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferris.
CSS Cookbook, 2nd Edition by Christopher Schmitt
Designing with Web Standards (2nd Edition) by Jeffrey Zeldman
Inspirability: 40 Top Designers Speak Out About What Inspires by Matt Pashkow
Codin’ for the Web: A Designer’s Guide to Developing Dynamic Web Sites by Charles Wyke-Smith
Computer Security for the Home and Small Office by Thomas C. Greene
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Illustrated (Marketplace Book) by Edwin Lefevre
Simple Web Sites: Organizing Content-rich Web Sites into Simple Structures by Stefan Mumaw

Rogie’s CSS PNG Fix for IE6

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UPDATE: View this Updated post for a full coverage of IE6 and Tranparent PNGs Issues

Update: A working example can be found here – IE6 PNG fix

Rogie over at komodomedia wrote an excellent article explaining in details how to make sure that IE6 displays transparent png images correctly. I have scanned over the comments and saw that somebody asked whether that technique worked with repeated background images, which it wasn’t.

So I have looked over that useful little snippet

#container {
width:780px; margin:15px auto 0 auto;
background:url(images/bck-content.png) repeat-y top left;
azimuth: expression(
this.pngSet?this.pngSet=true:(this.nodeName == "IMG" && this.src.toLowerCase().indexOf('.png')>-1?(this.runtimeStyle.backgroundImage = "none",
this.runtimeStyle.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='" + this.src + "', sizingMethod='image')",
this.src = "images/blank.gif"):(this.origBg = this.origBg? this.origBg :this.currentStyle.backgroundImage.toString().replace('url("','').replace('")',''),
this.runtimeStyle.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='" + this.origBg + "', sizingMethod='crop')",
this.runtimeStyle.backgroundImage = "none")),this.pngSet=true
);
}

and saw that if I change crop to scale,

#container {
width:780px; margin:15px auto 0 auto;
background:url(images/bck-content.png) repeat-y top left;
azimuth: expression(
this.pngSet?this.pngSet=true:(this.nodeName == "IMG" && this.src.toLowerCase().indexOf('.png')>-1?(this.runtimeStyle.backgroundImage = "none",
this.runtimeStyle.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='" + this.src + "', sizingMethod='image')",
this.src = "images/blank.gif"):(this.origBg = this.origBg? this.origBg :this.currentStyle.backgroundImage.toString().replace('url("','').replace('")',''),
this.runtimeStyle.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='" + this.origBg + "', sizingMethod='scale')",
this.runtimeStyle.backgroundImage = "none")),this.pngSet=true
);
}

the repeated background images would actually start displaying properly.

Here are some screenshots of what I am talking about.

repeated background image in IE6 without png fix
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repeated background image in IE6 with png fix and crop setting
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and Lo and Behold – repeated background image in IE6 with png fix and scale setting
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