Gabriola Graphics Blog

Here you'll find posts relating to a bunch of graphic and web stuff, a little hardware or software stuff, and the odd life pro tip.

Welcome! Here you'll find posts relating to a bunch of graphic and web stuff, a little hardware or software stuff, and the odd life pro tip.

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broken-images

Broken Images on Web Pages: Web Developer Browser Tools

Earlier today I was tasked with finding and fixing broken images on a retailer’s website, where there were of course thousands of images to go through. Here’s what I did to see and fix all the broken images (and the links pointing to them)… In this...

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Clean Up Double Line Spacing Code View in Dreamweaver

When downloading files from your server to edit in code view in Dreamweaver you’ll sometimes be looking at code that is all double spaced. You can fix this by doing a find/replace right in Dreamweaver. With the page open, hit CTRL-F and enter \n\s*\n and type...

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The CSS Pseudo-Element :empty and Google Maps

I use Feedly.com as my RSS reader and have a good amount of content coming in there that I browse each day or so. I certainly don’t remember each and everything I read, but even skimming the content and articles means that one day when I run into a work problem,...

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PHP Snippet: Display If In Date Range

One of my client’s websites requires regular updates where a “Sale” graphic is shown to visitors between certain dates. Rather than manually updating the site at those specific dates (and having to be in front of the computer on those dates) I wrote...

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interac

Send Or Receive Money Easily With Interac

At times I have clients ask if they can pay me with their debit card. Well, yes, they can. And it’s really easy. You can send and receive money easily too. It’s called an e-Transfer and all you need is a bank account and the email address of who you want...

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ublock-origin

Open Source Ad Blocker And More: uBlock Origin

Recently after reading Smashing Magazine’s Web Development Reading List #118 and finding out that AdBlock Plus might not be operating completely independently, I took their advice and am now using uBlock Origin. It’s open source software (github here) by...

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