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 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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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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Been There Before? Type In Your Address Bar

I take it for granted that everyone knows how to use a web browser (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.) But almost certainly we all don't use them the same way. Of course we open our web browser, visit a search engine (or maybe that's your home page) and go...

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