Inspiration

Hello all. New registration on the Refresh site has slowed significantly, but the spamming community seems to have found our registration page and is LOVING it. All that to say, I’ve disabled the registration page. If you would like to register as a user on this site, send me an email (mike [at] houghtoninteractive [dot] com), and I’ll get you set up.

Thanks!

~ Mike

Please welcome Raymond… A.K.A. Sivad

With or Without AS3…

Link tip: Rich Mariner

I found a script on Hicksdesign.co.uk that allows you to create, say, several icons each on a different layer in Illustrator, then export each layer individually as a PNG file.

The pathway on your hard drive for the script to be placed is Adobe Illustrator > Presets > Scripts.

Next, create your Illustrator file with different layers.

Finally, to export the layers as individual PNGs, simply use your Illustrator menu: File > Scripts > SaveLayersAsPNGArtboard

It works great – a handy script to already have loaded in Illustrator for when you really need it!

Read the brief article and get the script HERE.

What is graphic design? (Compliments of CR Blog)

NOLAF: Fun is contagious and therefore a disease. This is the best time I’ve had interacting with advertising in awhile. After you’ve gone through the site, reload the page and watch the several iterations of the intro and “Home” section. Here’s to Frito-Lay for paying for some great copywriting…

Special thanks to Jay Colle for the tip.

Here’s something I discovered recently. Blueprint CSS is a framework that provide you with a base set of style sheets. It has lots of nifty features like”resetting” the browsers’ defaults, assisting with gridded layouts, and establishing a base typography.

This has rapidly become part of my standard toolkit.

Have some psuedo 3-D fun with jParallax.

I hope Google’s Chrome browser gets more market penetration in the Windows world than Safari so more people can see and appreciate the features of the WebKit browser engine. Here is a nice use of WebKit transitions viewable in Chrome and Safari created by Stu Nicholls.

Wellp, I’m sure everyone’s heard, but in case you haven’t, we have another competitor for Mozilla Firefox and Internet explorer.

You can download Google Chrome at google.com/chrome.

Some of the neat features include:

• one bar for searching AND typing in urls,
• a very skinny tab and title bar combination,
• a set of commonly used pages immediately viewable when you open a new tab,
• independently-run tabs…that is, there’s no way for one tab to crash the entire browser,
• Google’s new V8 JavaScript engine,
• and use of WebKit to render webpages.

Here’s a quick picture in case you’re a little interested, but not interested enough to install it.