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Helping Threadless automate their printing

Julian — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:29:52 +0000

This thread is asking for help automating printing and using Data Merge with Adobe InDesign (CS5), here it is.

Edit data.csv as needed, open template.indd and choose Window>Data Merge from the menu. (Adobe Docs)

Click the little “Merge Documents” icon in this panel. It spits out an .indd with a page for each set of data.

Obviously for testing I didn’t set up nice fonts, etc. but you get the point. Read thru the Adobe Docs for the extra details.

Thanks to my lovely wife Kassie for pointing me in the right direction.

Hangover II wallpaper

Julian — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:10:41 +0000

Here’s a Hangover II wallpaper at 1920×1080. Enjoy.

Easy auto-width HTML button with 1 background image

Julian — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:04:41 +0000

Here’s a super simple technique to create a button of variable width in HTML/CSS.

I started here and then stripped it down to only 2 HTML elements, your A and an EM.

This technique uses one background image for the button.

First, create a button image that is about 2x as long as any button would ever be on your site.

Like so:

The rest is in the CSS comments…

CLICK ME!!!

.button{ border:none; background:none; padding:0; margin:0; width:auto; height:31px; overflow:visible; text-align:center; display:inline-block; white-space:nowrap;

/* Here's the magic sauce padding left is the space between the left edge of your button and your text background is set to left top */

padding-left:22px; background:url(../images/largeBtn.png) no-repeat 0 0; }


.button em{

height:31px;

display:block;

margin:0;

color:#fff;

font-style:normal;

line-height:33px;
/* Here's the magic sauce

margin right is the radius of your rounded corner if you have one (so pngs don't show through behind)

padding right is the space between the right edge of your button and your text

background is set to right top

*/
margin-right:-3px;

padding-right:22px;

background:url(../images/largeBtn.png) no-repeat 100% 0;
}

TweetBar – Safari 5 Extension

Julian — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:10 +0000

This Extension is out of date and does not work. Sorry for any inconvenience. Blame Twiiter and OAuth.

This Extension will place your Twitter feed in a bar in Safari.
The first time you run it, Twitter will want your credentials. The extension doesn’t process these, it goes straight to Twitter.

FEATURES
Click links in tweets
Click @replies and click author usernames
Auto-updating
Toolbar button to hide/show bar
Only one bar shows in one window, click toolbar button to make that window the active TweetBar window

PLANNED
Preview of twitpic images
Eventually, OAuth with posting/replying/DMs etc.