Pave Graphics Design Blog

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Haudagain Roundabout

Check out our new little 'Plaything', the Haudagain Roundabout (Aberdeen) at rush hour.

Saturday, 18 December 2010

I just finished a little code snippet for the Open Source User log in system 'Usercake'.
It automatically logs in a new user upon successful registration by redirecting the page, automatically posting the username and password using document.form.submit (but only if there's no errors AND email activation is turned off).

Insert this code on register.php just before the <!DOCTYPE bit at around line 90.


if(!empty($_POST) && count($errors) == 0 && !$emailActivation){

      echo "<html>/n";
      echo "<head><title>Logging you In...</title></head>/n";
      echo "<body onLoad="document.forms['login_form'].submit();">/n";
      echo "<center><h2>Please wait, you are being logged in</center>/n";
      echo "<form method="post" name="login_form" ";
      echo "action="login.php">/n";

      echo "<input type="hidden" name="username" value ="$username" />/n";
      echo "<input type="hidden" name="password" value ="$password" />/n";
      echo "<center><br/><br/>If you are not automatically logged in ";
      echo "within 5 seconds...<br/><br/>/n";
      echo "<input type="submit" value="Click Here"></center>/n";
      
      echo "</form>/n";
      echo "</body></html>/n";
   
 } else {

And of course remember to close with a curly bracket right and the VERY END of the page.

I used this to pass an additional $_POST variable telling UserCake that it was the first login.

Hope this helps you!

Saturday, 27 November 2010

Rainbow Library - Man-made Rainbows

I love the rainbow stuff she posts up on 'Things Organized Neatly' so I'm gonna start my own Man-made Rainbows thread...
My sister always used to take all her pencils out of the Caran D'Ache box (starting with the 10 pack aged 7 and working up to 50 or so aged c.13) and organise them in different colour orders, usually based on the rainbow. I guess the fascination rubbed off...

Saturday, 20 November 2010

More Lovely Infographics

Creative Review - New York magazine: data done right

Infographics from the New York magazine

Monday, 15 November 2010

Browser Sizes

Just found this pretty neat feature from Google Labs - a web 'mask' showing usage percentages for browser window sizes.

http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/

Pretty useful tool for us website designers! I'd say it looks like optimising your website design for c. 1000x550px resolution is a happy medium (at the moment) of usability over design possibilities... Although some would say you should make your site available to absolutely everyone!

There's also useful raw chronological browser stats including size, operating system, browser, from W3 Schools http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

Wednesday, 10 November 2010

New Web Browsers

I've been test driving the new browser based on Firefox called 'Flock'. It features a sidebar where you can load integrated social media (FaceBook, Twitter), RSS feeds, Email and much more.

Also excited to try 'Rock Melt' if/when I get an invite via their Facebook page...

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Saturday, 2 October 2010

Error 404 - Pave not Found

Always loved quirky 404 error pages

Loads loads more at http://www.plinko.net/404/area404.asp

In a similar vein, Smiley Cat showcases Error Messages Design