Posts Tagged ‘display’

How to Use PHP To Dynamically Resize an Image

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Screenshot of a Dzone PageOne of the most annoying things about working with images is getting them into the right size. Screenshots start out huge – and you need to resize them to an appropriate size for your website.

Some blogs automatically resize the pictures for you into a thumbnail – like the image to the right. What if you want the image a different size, though? You could allow the browser to resize it for you, or – better yet – write your own php script to resize the image dynamically.
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Check Your Websites Appearance in Other Browsers with Browsershots

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

One of the most frustrating aspects of web design is trying to make your website look good in every browser. If you use some advanced css techniques, you never know how an older browser or a different platform is going to handle it.

You can test how your site displays in a few browsers – for example, I often check mine out in Windows IE, Ubuntu Firefox, and Ubuntu Opera. But how am I going to check it on Mac browsers like Safari?
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