Micah M. aka Type Micah over at A Collective has relaunched Meme Engine as a t-shirt shop. As a web designer, There Is No Page Fold caught my eye. His apt description of this meme:

In the web design world, the “fold” is a term clients often use when referring to the bottom of their browser window. It stems from printed media; many newspapers are folded before they are stacked, thereby making everything “above the fold” desirable in terms of placement. Online, however, it just doesn’t work that way. Unfortunately, many people are slow to realize this and so, a meme was born.

Embrace the scroll!

Download Pages On Top

http://www.guidon-tech.com/

Located in both Washington and California, Guidon Technology Solutions is a Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business committed to excellence in the provision of rapid and flexible solutions to a broad base of customers worldwide.

Say This, Say That! created and developed a cms driven web site for them to use as a portal for potential customers.  We also redesigned their company store to fit in with their current branding.

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TQc5d-A6×3E"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TQc5d-A6×3E" type="/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425″ height="344″></embed></object>

If you add the following code to the value url and embed src, it will display the video in high resolution…

&ap=%2526fmt%3D18

Once added, the code looks something like this…

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TQc5d-A6×3E&ap=%2526fmt%3D18"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TQc5d-A6×3E&ap=%2526fmt%3D1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Heres an example of it in action on one of my animations…

This is a very nifty find for people who post a lot of video blogs, podcasts, and such.

The design of the site is easy on the eyes and is fairly simple to navigate.  It also offers a lot more functions for society members.

Feel free to check out the web site here…

http://www.olympiafilmsociety.org/

1. Copy Merged
   This one’s really a no-brainer. Make a selection, go to Edit > Copy Merged and voila, you’ve copied a a composite of all visible layers and effects, blended, merged and ready to paste. Open a new document and paste it in. I never slice anything anymore.

   Note: If you’re Photoshop is older than CS2 you will need to have a visible layer selected or nothing will happen! This can be very confusing, so if you can afford an upgrade, do so!
    

2. Fade…
   The mysterious menu item that seems to never be enabled. Go ahead. Open up a photo, go to the Edit menu. See Fade…? It’s grayed out so that you can’t select it. Now scale your image down to a width of 120px. It probably got a bit fuzzy so let’s sharpen it a bit. Select Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen. Before you do anything else, go to the Edit menu. Now you’ll see Fade Sharpen… is available. Select it. Sharpen is a powerful filter. Too powerful if you ask me. Set the opacity fader in the Fade window to 30%. Depending on your image, you may need less or more, but 30% is about as high as you’ll ever need to go with Sharpen. 

   Fade can be used with pretty much any action in Photoshop, and in addition to the opacity fader, you can use it to change the blending mode. Think of fade as taking the current state of the highlighted layer and blending it with the immediate previous version. This can be a great tool for softening or changing the way that Photoshop renders anything raster based.
    

3. Levels
   Levels is a quick and easy way to improve the depth of color of your photos. This one is also very powerful, and has some tricks you may or may not know about. One that I’ve found invaluable is setting your black point and white point in an image. Open up a photo that is too dark, low contrast or generally poorly lit, and select Image > Adjustments > Levels. You’ll notice there are there three little eye droppers on the lower right portion of this dialog. If your image’s blacks are to light, select the one with black in the dropper. Now click on the pixel in your image that should appear to be black. If there isn’t any area that should appear fully black, don’t use it. If your images white areas are too gray, select the eye dropper with white in it, then choose the whitest point on your image. Make sure you have the Preview box checked so that you can see what the effect will be. If it comes out too harsh, you can always Fade it.
    
4. Curves
   Curves is pretty tricky to do well, but if you’ve never used it, give it a shot. It’s a much finer control over color and value than you can get with the more basic Hue/Saturation or Levels adjustments. Go to Image > Adjustments > Curves and check it out. A little goes a long way.

In this case, I’m referring to a table layout I inherited that I wanted to make centered in the browser window, and only by changing the CSS (and without adding a new id on every single page) Here’s how I did it:

First I tried the idealistic (proper) method, fingers crossed:

body > table {
	margin: 0 auto;
}

It worked… almost. It worked on the usual suspects – Safari 3, FireFox 2 Mac/PC, IE 7. But of course, IE 6 doesn’t recognize child selectors.

Next, I tried a less pretty but ultimately effective method that utilizes the C in CSS… “Cascading.” That’s right, it can be used to your advantage! For this method I made two definitions in my CSS:

First, I styled every table within the body tag:

body table {
margin: 0 auto;
}

Then, I reset the margins of any tables nested within the first table.

body table table {
	margin: 0;
}

And that worked on all mentioned browsers, and it’s pretty much just long hand for the child selector version I tried first. Outside of looking a little like myspace code, I can live with it. After all, we’re talking about a table layout! Dirty CSS is the least of its problems.

Say This, Say That! set out to recreate the companies web site. The site now offers a cleaner navigation and more functionality. Viewers of the site can check out dynamic horse portfolios which feature information, pictures, and even videos about each horse. The site also features a news module for easy updates.

 So, feel free to check out our work here…

 http://www.erosarabhacks.com/

Check them out, they do amazing work and you can do some shopping while you wait, because they’re right by the Tacoma Mall.

http://www.courtesygoodyear.com