Chris (and all),
The letters and mouseover are ugly because of a bug in PHP's handling of
fonts. There are workarounds and I need to try them (all are ugly). It has
to do with the way transparency is handled (so the background shows
through). It's on my (lengthy) list of corrections, bugs and enhancements.
As for PHP on the Mac, you need to run a webserver (Apache, etc) and then
add PHP. I don't know if there is a Mac build or not, but you can check at
www.php.net. Works fine on Microsoft IIS.
The gradient background is also created on the fly and with a simple
parameter change the background color changes. some of these things I need
to back out, as I suspect they are slowing down the site.
But it's fun.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 3:57 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: For those of you that are fans of B&W
>
> Tom
>
> I like the overall look of the website, particularly as graduated
> grey is one of my favourite colour schemes. But I think that the
> drop-shadow on the words at the top makes them look untidy, either
> because the shadow is there or because it is too short, too close to
> the main letters. Also, I would change the mouse_over colour to
> something more muted, closer to a match with the background in tone
> and feel.
>
> I should like to learn to use php, so your code would be welcome over
> here. But you are well ahead of me with your website, so perhaps it
> would be wasted on me. It seems to be something that I should be
> able to run on my Mac, but I don't understand the relationship
> between the coding system and my operating system. I think I have
> installed it, but I cannot find how to run it ...
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris
> ~~ >-)-
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
> +44 (0)7092 251126
> www.threeshoes.co.uk
> homepage.mac.com/zuiko
>
>
> On 7 Aug 2005, at 16:03, Tom Scales wrote:
>
>>
>> In my on-going quest to fill my time while sitting in my wife's
>> hospital
>> room, I am adding feature after silly feature to my website.
>>
>> I thought some of you might be interested in this latest one -- and
>> I'll be
>> happy to share the PHP code if there is interest.
>>
>> And to keep this on-topic (at least marginally), the image in the
>> example
>> was shot with an OM-4T.
>>
>> On each page that displays a single image, there is a thumbnail on
>> the right
>> that is a B&W version. If you click it, the images switch and the
>> full-size
>> image is in B&W and the thumbnail is in Color.
>>
>> The only image that I put on the site is the full-size, 640x480
>> color image.
>> The site (my code) adds the copyright if the image is over 200
>> pixels. The
>> B&W image is created on the fly by my PHP code. It's not a perfect B&W
>> rendering, but it is kind of cool.
>>
>> http://www.scalesimages.com/scalesimages/single.php?img=./
>> 030_menu_Architecture//090-SA141.jpg&bw=N
>>
>> Sorry if the link wraps and you have to cut and paste.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> P.S. Hold your mouse pointer over the logo on the upper for another
>> cool
>> trick
>>
>
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