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Gimp Copyright Frame with White Inner Border

Donal — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:07:23 +0000

Last weekend I finally got around to editing Donncha’s script for adding a border using Gimp to suit my own needs. I like to have a white inner border with the copyright text in the white border. Click here to get the .scm file.

You can check out Donncha’s post for details on how to change this script for your own purposes but the change I made was to add the donal-draw-white-frame function which is then made invisible by setting the opacity to zero. I also increased the inFrameWidth variable to 10 as I wanted a bigger space for the text. I used to use a width of 5 pixels for the black border but I’m happy enough with the 10 pixel black border. I also used to have letter spacing of 1 for the copyright text but I couldn’t figure out the gimp_text_layer_set_letter_spacing () function but life’s too short! If you know how to do this, please let me know in the comments. Still, with a little compromise, I think this is going to save me a lot of time when editing photos.

I’ve also finally set up my shortcuts properly on Gimp so a quick re-size, run script, save as and I’m done.

CorkPipersClub.com Re-design

Donal — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:07:29 +0000

I have just finished a re-design of the Cork Pipers Club website and I would appreciate feedback about the design. I’m afraid I cannot offer a Nokia wi-fi phone for your opinions, to be honest it’s been done and is so passé . But your feedback will be well appreciated and you can bask in the knowledge that you’re furthering the long-standing tradition of uilleann piping in Cork.

The design is loosely based on this oswd.org design. I got rid of the graphics, changed colours, modified the size of the content, added a widget on the 3rd colum for Flickr, and changed the layout and position of the menu. The menu is a funny creature as I changed it to use the fixed position attribute in CSS which is fine for Firefox and apparently some later versions of IE. If you’re looking at it in IE and the menu scrolls, well it’s not supposed to, but I’ll live with it.

The drawing in the bottom left corner comes courtesy of Anthony Ruby. I set the background colour to pick up some of the colours in this. I’m not good with colours so that’s one area that may need some tweaking.

The old version of the site will be up for another while. This was based on tables and had little colour. It also lacked content behind some of the links.

On another note, I just found a great site with a massive collection of Irish tunes – TuneDB. Also, see ABC2Win for creating staff music notation.

Flying Solo

Donal — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:31:34 +0000

Another picture from the Salthill Airshow. It’s a bit dark and distant but I like the way the plane is just about to disappear into the cloud.

Graphical Representation of HTML

Donal — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:50:27 +0000

This is a graphical representation of the HTML behind my blog. A pretty nifty little applet which you can try out yourself here or check out the blog behind the idea. You have to Print Screen to save the image though, no easy way of saving the image.

Here's what the colours actually mean.

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
grey: all other tags

See all Flickr photos of this tagged with websitesasgraphs.

Found via A Langers Blog.

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