Tanked Up

Another map has been added to the Dahab section of the main site. It is an image rollover map of the middle east. I thought people may be interested in that particular region at the moment, unfortunately.
There’s an explaination of how it works and you can download the html & css for it if you want to make your own.
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I’ve added a tableless css photo gallery tutorial on the main site. It’s been tested on all the major browsers that I could get my hands on and at screen resolutions of 800×600 upwards. There are explainations of the html and css needed to make it work, along with templates to get you started.
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Having recently added StatCounter to the site, I have just reviewed the first months statistics for June 2006. The browser stats were very encouraging. Our stats were :

IE 70.4%, Firefox 25.6%, Safari 2.3%, Opera 1.4% and Mozilla 0.3%

I was amazed to be honest. I’ve seen stats like that for developers sites, but you’d maybe expect their visitors to be using non IE browsers. Maybe people are actually waking up to the fact that there are better browsers out there. At last!

I’ve always developed for Firefox, checked in Opera and Netscape, used snugtech’s free (at present) service for Safari and then bitten the bullet and looked at the page in IE, fully expecting to have to add an IE fix. And I’m usually not disappointed!

Some more reliable stats for browser usage can be found at thecounter.com where Firefox has been gaining 1% a month since the start of the year. Their June total was IE 82% and Firefox 10%. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to that trend when IE7 eventually limps out.

Strange name eh? This is actually one of the best sharpening options available in any image manipulation program.

Unfortunately for us I’ve only just found out about it and all our images are already uploaded. Bugger! We’ve included a page with an explaination of this incredibly useful, but shockingly named filter. This includes image examples and tips for resizing images for the web. It applies to GIMP, but is relevent to Photoshop and PSP too.
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A new tutorial has been added to the Imaging Tips section of the main site. This is for correcting underwater images, below 5m, taken without a flash. Photos taken this way will generally appear blue/green in colour and need a red enhancement to restore the natural colours to them. There are two methods described using GIMP and script-fu’s have been included. Continue to red enhance tutorial

A GIMP script-fu (macro) download page has been added for some of the tutorials in the imaging section. The scripts are my first attempt at writing script-fu’s, but before I put them up on the site they were thoroughly tested in GIMP version 2.2 and development version 2.3.
Continue to Script-Fu downloads

Sven : “Well errrr, it’s a pity, I’m a bit angry”

Inspiring stuff eh?