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Archive for February, 2006

Optimizing Flash Buttons (Part 2)

Last week I shared the method I use to optimize (movieclip) buttons within Flash. Now, I’m going to take it one step further, by putting the following on the first frame of the topmost layer: _global.path = “/index.php”; _global.pg_1 = _global.path + “?id=1″; function eventListener(my_mc, mcInstance){ my_mc.onRollOver = function(){ this.gotoAndPlay(“over”); } my_mc.onRollOut = function(){ this.gotoAndPlay(“out”); [...]

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Liquid Multi-column Floated Lists

Every now and then I’ll design a web site for a client that incorporates a multi-column list. Typically this list is on the homepage, so we would create a module that would allow the client/user to enter in values in a textfield and then a server-side language would render the page upon request. Last month [...]

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Apache, Automatic Directory Listings

I recently formatted my PC – because it had begun to take forever to boot up. There have been instances where I would, literally, wait two minutes just to get to the desktop. I figured that the cause of my problem was possibly due to my system registry being packed with ancient entries, etc. – [...]

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