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Scalar Backgrounds in SVG
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WordPress recently updated the built-in admin page that allows users to search for plugins hosted on the official plugin repository. One aspect of this update gave all plugins the ability to have icons. Read More
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Andy’s CSS Best Practices
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While a lot of languages have pretty well defined sets of best practices, CSS seems to fluctuate on a monthly basis. Is the cascade good or bad this week? Read More
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Schedule Daily Automatic Emails in Outlook 2013
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At work I have to send several emails out each day. One of these is exactly the same each day with the exception of the date. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to schedule these? Read More
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HandBrake Video Conversion Software
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I’ve been working in my spare time recently on finishing up my Smart Search For Excel app, and today I got to the point where I wanted to show it off to some friends. Read More
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Text in SVG: 3nd Attempt (Size Reduction)
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Several days ago I wrote about finally solving the text in SVG problem. The key is to convert your font file to base64 data stream and include it in the SVG. Read More
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Text in SVG: 2nd Attempt
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Last week I attempted another SVG logo conversion, and failed. This was because the logo used Palatino Tinotype, a font that appears to be safe but isn’t. Read More
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Downside of SVG – Fonts
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My third attempt at conversion to SVG is a logo with text. It took nearly 4 hours, because it’s got 16 different SVG elements (without counting the linear gradients. Read More
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CodePen.io SVG Feature Request Update
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Less than two weeks ago I submitted a feature request to CodePen.io, for the ability to embed a ‘pen as an `SVG` image. Read More
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SVG: A More Complex Logo
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My logo is extreme simple. It has two shapes and is all straight lines. Because of this simplicity, I had no trouble converting it to `SVG`. Read More
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Creating SVG with CodePen.io
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Over the past few days, I’ve been exploring the `SVG` image format, and I converted my own logo, with great results. Read More