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Archive for the ‘General Web’ Category

A Minor Facelift

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

I gave the blog a really minor design facelift today. Understandably, the older version was a lot simpler because I hadn’t had a chance to play around too much with WordPress because I launched the blog. Now that I have a good handle on it, I played around with it some more. If you’re curious, […]

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Everyone Should Have iGoogle as Their Homepage

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Just a quick tidbit, for those that may find the name unfamiliar, iGoogle was recently (April 2007) renamed from its original project name: the Google personalized homepage. The best description I can give of iGoogle is that it’s a personalized homepage. It can do everything you can ever want from a homepage and can do […]

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Making a Favicon.ico

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

What is a Favicon.ico?
A Favicon.ico is an icon file used to replace the default website icon in the browser. Favicon is short for Favorites Icon. In Firefox, the default icon is a blank page, as seen in the following picture:

A customized Favicon.ico will appear in the browser’s window beside the address, in addition to in […]

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An Introduction

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

I felt as though I should start everything off with an introduction so you can know the man behind the blog.

I’m a graduate in Graphic Design at Algonquin College. I currently work at a downtown advertising agency here in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Although I’ve done work in print, my area of specialty is definitely web-based. […]

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