Category Archives: Webmastering
Make a proper favicon for your web site
Sunday is my website cleanup day. My error logs looked clean, so I decided to finally make a proper favicon for my primary web site. I remember being surprised to learn that the .ico format allows you to store multiple sizes … Continue reading
Posted in Images, Webmastering
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Converting to UTF-8
Shamed and inspired by Joel Spolsky’s decade-old article on character encoding, and warned by another blog post (which I can’t find) that described a three-day ordeal fighting the issue, I cleared some time and sat down to make sure all … Continue reading
Posted in Web programming, Webmastering
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When PNG color doesn’t match hex color in IE, smush.it!
I built a site for my cousin’s business. We used PNGs for some of the background images and it looked gorgeous (at least to me). Then one day she asked me why her site had those weird rectangles. I had … Continue reading
Posted in CSS, Images, Webmastering
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