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Fireworks Zone: Wallpaper Contest

Published on October 21, 2009 in General. Closed

Fire up Fireworks and get creative! Fireworks Zone is holding a contest for the best Adobe® Fireworks®-created wallpapers. All Fireworks enthusiasts are invited to join the open theme contest, which runs until December 1, 2009. The most awesome wallpaper wins a copy of Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Web Premium and an invitation to write an article for the Fireworks Developer Center. There are cash prizes, books, and tees to be won, too!

Go to Fireworks Zone’s contest page for more details. Good luck, and show them all what Fireworks is really capable of!

Twitter Sleuthing: Too Many Poets

Published on May 29, 2009 in General, Twitter and Typography. 3 Comments

thepoet: Who is this @JasmineTiy and why is he/her/it they keep on spamming @thepoet in their twit. I don’t even know what they are saying. →

JasmineTiy: How comes there’s 2 @thepoet iz dat even possible →

thepoet: @twitter f*d up big time on the username. there’s two @thepoet @thePOET so that’s why i’m getting all these replies who I don’t even know → Continue reading ‘Twitter Sleuthing: Too Many Poets’

PhilWeavers Is Now An Open Forum

Published on May 28, 2008 in General. 5 Comments

PhilWeavers, the Philippines’ unofficial-but-authoritative organization for Web professionals, has today issued an official announcement regarding their shift to open membership:
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Simple Relative Font Size Equation

Published on November 27, 2006 in CSS, Design, General, Typography and Web. 12 Comments

For those of you working with relative font-sizes in your CSS, here is a basic equation for getting the exact size equivalent in ems, given a desired px value:

emr = pxt ÷ pxp, where
 
emr = result font size, in ems;
pxt = target font size, in px;
pxp = parent element’s font size, in px;

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Hello, SixThings!

Published on February 10, 2006 in General. Closed

Welcome to SixThings, where I try to catalog my various adventures into half-dozen servings. Whether they’re interesting or not is for the readers to decide. WordPress makes it look more professional, though.