Archives of November 2005
Veren tytär
I designed cd covers for my friends' band, Surma! The title of the cd is Veren tytär. Bigger version of the cover here.
(Surma is a poetic word for death in Finnish - I believe bane
would be quite a good translation. Veren tytär means Daughter of Blood - at least the genre provides the pretext.)
The covers turned out pretty well,
although the print quality was not the best possible. As is probably
obvious, the covers were heavily (no pun intended) influenced by modern
Japanese horror movies, although the gradient map here goes from black
to green instead of white. Usage of complementary colours is probably
against the mindset of pretty much anyone with even rudimentary
knowledge of chromatics but hey, METAL IS ABOUT BREAKING RULES, EVEN CHROMATOLOGICAL ONES!!!!!!!!!!! Teenage rebellion via graphic design.
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Categories: Art, Creations, Music
Posted by Matias at 03.11.2005 20:57 (7 years ago) | 172 comments | 0 trackbacks
Targeting links to new browser windows with valid XHTML 1.1
One of the downsides of completely separating content from layout
and programmatical behavious is the removed ability to set link targets
so that they open new windows - a surprisingly common problem. In practice, this means that the a tag may not have target attribute in valid XHTML 1.1.
It is possible to include a special module for link targets and thus allow the usage of target,
but that is quite a complex way to do such a simple thing. I have found
out that a compromise which uses JavaScript (if available) works the
best.
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Categories: Programming, Web
Posted by Matias at 06.11.2005 11:10 (7 years ago) | 37 comments | 0 trackbacks
.NET Framework 2.0 - first impressions
Today Microsoft released .NET Framework 2.0. I already managed to convert this site and homokaasu.org
to run on it. I didn't yet install it on the server, though, but got it
running on my home computer. It was quite easy, but not as fluent as it
could have been. Here
are the first problems I've encountered and their solutions.
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