helpmechris.com » Web Development http://www.helpmechris.com Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:07:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 65 Resources for Grid-Based Design http://www.helpmechris.com/2008/04/02/65-resources-for-grid-based-design/ http://www.helpmechris.com/2008/04/02/65-resources-for-grid-based-design/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:03:31 +0000 Chris Brown http://www.helpmechris.com/2008/04/02/65-resources-for-grid-based-design/ Great Articles and Resources, Check it out…

65 Resources for Grid-Based Design | Vandelay Website Design

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Top 10 custom JavaScript functions of all time

]]> http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/08/26/top-10-custom-javascript-functions-of-all-time/feed/ 0 New Site Design for my Bands in Progress http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/30/new-site-design-for-my-bands-in-progress/ http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/30/new-site-design-for-my-bands-in-progress/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:32:36 +0000 Chris Brown http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/30/new-site-design-for-my-bands-in-progress/ Hi everyone. I spent about ten hours yesterday adding a new site for The Chris Brown Trio… I also added some new videos on my youtube channel. You can see it all at Bonedriven.com. It’s not completely finished and tweaked out but it’s getting close. I still have some hours of css styling/type work to make it truly beautiful.

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Narrowing it Down

I know of a couple of sites that let you narrow down your font selection one step at a time by identifying the traits that your target font has. You can search by sight at identifont.com which I’ve been playing with all day and you can also try to the search by sight tool at fonts.com

Another option is to try myfonts.com where you can upload an image file which will be processed and compared to their database for close matches. Very cool.

Going Old-School

A last resort is utilizing methods that have been around forever. You can do take old fashion approach of looking through hundreds of fonts using windows font preview or a font manager such as Suitcase or ATM, but from here on out you can at least try taking a shortcut before you trace a logo or dig through a thousand fonts.

Hopefully we’ll never have to endure the accumulated weeks of time that we’ve all spent in the past tracing text from client’s logos. It’s great that the future is here.

Happy font hunting.

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I’ve been working on an OSCommerce customization for one of our clients and today I’ve done all of the php work in Quanta without ever wishing I was using something else. So far so good.

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Find it here

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Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting

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The 35 Sexiest Designed Websites you’ve Forgotten, part 4 – PhilRenaud.com

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The sIFR site says ‘sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems.’

sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses

]]> http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/05/mike-davidson-sifr-20-rich-accessible-typography-for-the-masses/feed/ 0 Link: The Secret to Understanding Design on Baekdal.com http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/05/link-the-secret-to-understanding-design-on-baekdalcom/ http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/05/link-the-secret-to-understanding-design-on-baekdalcom/#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:33:25 +0000 Chris Brown http://helpmechris.com/?p=274 Check out this awesome article on design trends… the charts are great…

The Secret to Understanding Design – Baekdal.com

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]]> http://www.helpmechris.com/2007/07/04/iphone-surfs-forgetfoo/feed/ 0 This week’s solutions – July22-28, 2006 http://www.helpmechris.com/2006/08/01/this-weeks-solutions-july22-28-2006/ http://www.helpmechris.com/2006/08/01/this-weeks-solutions-july22-28-2006/#comments Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:42:50 +0000 Chris Brown http://helpmechris.com/?p=7 Chris Brown’s solution list – July 22nd through the 28th… Other people’s problems… SOLVED!!

Do Yoga at The Smokers Lounge of Denver International Airport – SOLVED

Find mobile satelite solution to trasfer video to NOC – SOLVED

Remove glue from guitar finish – SOLVED

Program articles in phpnuke without using the autonews table – SOLVED

MSWord will not open – SOLVED

Find travel time in personal jet from point A to point B – SOLVED

Convert component video signals to composite – SOLVED

Recover deleted files when recovery software wouldn’t detect them – SOLVED

Copy and Paste won’t work or freezes the computer – SOLVED

Need “add to” buttons for rss feeds and podcasts – SOLVED

Encode and transfer video from Las Vegas to Houston within an hour from end of filming – SOLVED

Find low cost mobile video encoding and streaming solution – SOLVED

Capture from JVC HDV100 on the fly – SOLVED

Help my computer will not start up – SOLVED

Use windows media encoder on a media center computer to capture and encode – SOLVED

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This list is incomplete and to be updated.

Chris Brown

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I’ve been chillin’ – enjoying life.

I’ve spent some time working more on the articles database at sitemy… I am almost finished with the submission process… people will be able to submit an article and I can go approve it at an admin page, etc etc… right now I’m adding each one manually etc etc eek eew.

I’ve been helping out at 2GOclub.com lately too… little php programs and also some office work, moving stuff around… It’s been fun.

It’s true… gotmo.net has the worst CTR I’ve seen since my first adwords campaign… no doubt about it, they ain’t clickin’. I guess it’s because the know the site owners?? Um, I figured that this would be more of a reason to support us than to not… wrong?

FidosRevenge.com is still going through updates… soon I will add pictures from highschool… get scared… you might be in one of them If I know YOU.

I’m out for now… peace.

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The summer is slowly creeping up on us – we’ll be in the swimming pool soon.

]]> http://www.helpmechris.com/2005/01/26/hello-its-a-nice-morning-im-having-some-coffee/feed/ 0 I’ve been doing a little work for Lisa-Adelle Design http://www.helpmechris.com/2002/07/24/ive-been-doing-a-little-work-for-lisa-adelle-desi/ http://www.helpmechris.com/2002/07/24/ive-been-doing-a-little-work-for-lisa-adelle-desi/#comments Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:11:00 +0000 Chris Brown http://helpmechris.com/?p=233 I’ve been doing a little work for Lisa-Adelle Design this past week or so. Did some photoshop work on some stuff they were doing for Piercing Pagoda and made some changes to they’re site. The people are nice and the work is good…peace

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