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AutoCAD tips: Plot Style Table Editor

February 5th, 2009 No comments

Use Plot Style Table Editor to modify the printed color of objects.

The case: I have drawings (from AutoCAD sample file) with various color like this

Drawing preview

I want to print it in grayscale, the problem is when the light color, like light green and light blue in this drawing will be printed in light gray and the result will be seen unclear.

Plot preview Grayscale

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Use Microsoft Access for Certificate Publishing

January 24th, 2009 No comments

Microsoft Access can be a tool to increase the productivity in certificate publishing. I’ve prepare the certificate template without the name like this:
certificate template
With this design, I want to create many with different names without have to copy the design to many. For this tutorial, I use Access 2007.

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Tutorial CorelDRAW: Export Object with Transparent Background

January 24th, 2009 19 comments

The case:

I’ve create objects with CorelDRAW like this:
Preview Objects in CorelDRAW
see closely the white line in the text.

And then I want to edit those objects in another image editor, such as Photoshop, so it become like this:
Final Preview

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AutoCAD Tips: Use LAYISO to Quickly Show Layers You Only Need

January 18th, 2009 4 comments

LAYISO command isolates the layer of selected objects so that all other layers are turned off. This is very useful to quickly reduce the visual complexity of a drawing without open the Layer Properties Manager.

Before:

Before isolating layer(s)

After:

After isolating layer(s)

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Web Design Evaluation

July 3rd, 2008 No comments

There are many online tools to evaluate your web design. If you have spare time try to evaluate it. So you can fix error found to make a better design.

General Design

  1. Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability
  2. Ten Good Deeds in Web Design
  3. Good Web Design

Evaluating Code

  1. Validate CSS
  2. Validate HTML
  3. Validate Web Content Accessibility

Web Page Speed

To check the loading speed: Web Page Speed Report

Resources for Webmaster

For Joomla!ers there is a module for administrator to validate website: Website Validators Tool For Joomla.
More tools you can visit Accessites.org Read more…