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Auto Generated Text Images
Posted on | October 5, 2008 | No Comments
I find it cumbersome to create label image and upload it manually when updating categories or page titles from CMSes. In most cases, text label images are used instead of plain text mainly due to aesthetic considerations. Some advantages of using text label images:
- text looks better with anti-alias
- fancy fonts can be used for the menus or content
If the CMS can auto generate the label image, I no longer have to manually create images when updating the content
There are different approaches to achieve this. You can do it in Flash with a variable to pass in the text. You can do it with an image manipulation library and scripts. For this post, I will explain how to get it to work with Cakephp and GDLib.
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Swf Movie as Background for HTML pages
Posted on | September 16, 2008 | No Comments
Yesterday I got an inquiry about using swf movie as background or masthead banner for a webpage. Is it possible to do that?
I would think that older browsers will show the swf movie with the highest z-index, making it the top most elements. Newer browsers from Firefox2, IE6 onwards would render the z-index correctly.
I came up with a simple html page to test it out. 2 divs behind the flash and 3 in front with one holding a ul navigation.
