Monthly Archives: January 2011

Preventing RGB colour shifts

Posted on 23/01/2011 by jamietshaw

If you are working purely in RGB with software more commonly used for print (and therefore CMYK), colours may shift unexpectedly when exporting between different formats. For example, this piece of artwork, created in Illustrator, contains some text plus a … Continue reading →

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Colour modes for beginners

Posted on 23/01/2011 by jamietshaw

This post gives a brief introduction to colour and its representation on computer screens and printed materials. Fact 1: Screens display colour in a completely different way to printed colour. Virtually any screen, whether it’s on a computer, a TV, … Continue reading →

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Installing and setting up phpMyAdmin

Posted on 19/01/2011 by jamietshaw

This is unusually straightforward for open source software. From Unix command line: wget phpMyAdmin-3.3.9-english.tar.gz (or use curl instead of wget) tar -xvzf phpMyAdmin-3.3.9-english.tar.gz (on the webserver) ln -s phpMyAdmin-3.3.9-english phpMyAdmin (so you can access the better-named ‘phpMyAdmin’ and have it point … Continue reading →

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CMS systems

Posted on 19/01/2011 by jamietshaw

http://www.joomla.org Free (open source) Gives you a ready-made design (template) which can be edited as necessary Conclusion: seems powerful but might not be worth it if you have to make lots of changes to the templates to get the design … Continue reading →

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(Most) reliably working with UTF-8 in PHP

Posted on 18/01/2011 by jamietshaw

If these functions are used in place of the standard PHP string functions, results will be UTF-8 if at all possible. Other encodings can be given instead if desired. The code also includes some other useful string functions.

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