Notes

Have you ever wanted to replace those boring standard web browser buttons with something nicer? There are a few different ways of approaching the problem, including styling the buttons with CSS and using image buttons. There are some issues with those approaches however, and sometimes you may not even want a proper button, but instead use a regular text link. This is why my favorite solution is to replace the buttons altogether – with links that can then be styled anyway you want.

If you’re working with the graphic production of magazines and other printed material on a regular basis, you’re probably familiar with the problem of preparing large numbers of images for placing into your layouts. They often arrive in a variety of formats and resolutions which makes it difficult to know how large they can be scaled in the layout documents without the resolution becoming too low. You have to make sure each image has the right resolution and is saved in an appropriate file format before placing them in your documents. Surely, there has to be a better way than opening up and resaving each image in Photoshop.