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Make an Image Pure Black and White
Although professionally designed themes obviate much of the need for a graphic designer in web design, occasionally an image will have to be tweaked. I prefer to use GIMP. There are many useful articles on making images monochrome, describing several approaches to change color to grayscale. But what if you want just black and white, with no shades of gray? How to Convert an Image to True Monochrome First, use just about any technique to change the image to grayscale. One of the easiest is just to go to the “Colors” menu in GIMP and...
read moreDynamically List Sub-Pages
When to List Child Pages on a Page Many prominent sites, even those with a significant amount of content, have only a few prominent navigation links on their home page. When you hover over these, a list of subpages appears: it keeps the layout compact and simple, while allowing quick access to a large number of pages. However, the hover nicety doesn’t always work. Most notably, smartphones have no way to hover: it’s click, or nothing. Typically, you want that main hover link to actually go somewhere, even if it’s just a...
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