Archive for April, 2007
I’ve had a very productive week and I am happy to see that my work went live today! Nothing like the exciting feeling of a launch!
First banner is for Shell Pernis which is one of the biggest oil refineries in the world. The materials made at Pernis are used by customers to manufacture many everyday products including car parts, foam seating and bedding, paints, cooling fluids, pharmaceuticals and petrol.
Second banner is for Shell Moerdijk, which is a specialized division for chemicals. The products made at Moerdijk are used by customers to manufacture many everyday products, such as car components, synthetic fibres, insulation materials, latex paints and anti-freeze.
It was a true pleasure making these banners, specially because I had the luxury problem of choosing from hundreds of really superb photos. And also they just liked everything I did and you just have to love clients like that. Everything went smooth and I am happy with the result!
Have a look and click on the banners to see them live on Shell’s website!
April 25th, 2007
Took me a whole day to write the last post because of an unexpected problem, when I pasted in the code in my blog post and saved it, the code was embedded inside of the actual HTML code instead of showing up as code. No need to say that it also utterly messed up my WordPress template design.
A lot of people write a lot about it and after installing a few useless plug-ins to only display the code as actual code, I came across a list of the most common HTML character entities and just what I needed. So now you know, just use following characters and your code will appear as normal code.
April 9th, 2007
I am a FireFox (FF) lover, let that be said once and for all here. I do have very little love for Internet Explorer (IE) which always creates problems for me. I build my web pages and testing them in FF which almost always renders the pages correctly and just as I intended them to be. Then I do the testing in IE and low and behold, some fuggly white space between my images I build in CSS. GRRRRRR…
But have no fear, the remedy is very simple. If for instance you have used Image Ready to cut up your page and export the images for you, you just need to clean up your code a bit and IE will render your page just as FF do.
This might be what your code looks like:
<div id=”TopBanner”>
<img src=”../images/Index_TopBanner.gif” alt=”" width=”800″ height=”150″ border=”0″>
</div>
All you have to do now to make it look as good as our dear beloved FF is showing us, is to make sure there is no space in the containing divs in your code, like this:
<code><div id=”TopBanner”><img src=”../images/Index_TopBanner.gif” alt=”" width=”800″ height=”150″ border=”0″></div></code>
Voila! Reload IE and it should work!
April 9th, 2007
On this very day - 04.04.07 I registered ReBirth Media here in Amsterdam at Kamer van Koophandel (picture). Now that felt good! Finally everything is official and I can start doing business the way business is supposed to be made. Feel very upbeat and ready to take on the world! So cheers for me and my brand new company!
April 4th, 2007