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Create Oscar-Worthy Movie Scripts With Celtx

Posted Mon, 2009-07-27 16:50 by simplrdesgnr

Celtx is a media pre-production editor that allows you to easily create screenplays and storyboards for your next movie. You can use it to create a whole assortment of media, including theater, comics, advertising, and video games.

Take Awesome Webshots with the Linux Command Line

Posted Sat, 2009-07-25 01:39 by simplrdesgnr

khtml2png is a helpful tool for capturing an image of a webpage with ease. It's nice to use because it will get the entire length of the site, no matter whether it is fully visible in the browser. And, it sure beats shell scripting Firefox to open on a different display and capturing an image with Imagemagick

Introduction to Web Development with Emacs

Posted Mon, 2009-07-20 22:23 by simplrdesgnr

Emacs is an absolutely wonderful text editor for designers, and it can speed up development time with a series of helpful shortcuts, even for a Textmate diehard. Unfortunately, Emacs can have a steep learning curve, so I figured I would provide a basic introduction for using Emacs as a web development environment.

Forget About Photoshop: Five CSS Hacks to Help You Stop Using Images

Posted Sun, 2009-07-19 04:14 by simplrdesgnr

When you are laying out a new design for a web site, the last thing you generally want to do is create a ton of images for the layout. You might make a rounded corner or shadowed text in Photoshop, but that is wasted time if the client doesn’t like it or the website doesn’t turn out as expected. Therefore, here’s a list of some of the different CSS hacks you can use to get around using images.