JavaScript: Setting the selected dropdown option by its index number

August 10th, 2010

Long time no new entry. :) Internship is keeping me very busy. In this blog entry I’ll show you how to select a drop down option by specifying its index number.
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Easily embed web fonts to your web page using Google Font API

May 21st, 2010

I’ve been working on some website design recently. I used fancy fonts in the design sample I made in Adobe Illustrator, forgetting that I have to embed the fonts first to make them display on the visitors’ browsers even if they don’t have those fonts in their computer. I ended up using images on my header menu, making the web page take longer to load, and used fonts on site headings that are less matching to the website theme, making the design less attractive. I didn’t choose to embed the fonts I wanted to use because the procedures seem to take too much time from me.

The designs I’m making are almost done when I found out about the Google Font API and the Google Font Directory. Read the rest of this entry »

Adobe Illustrator: If you cannot see or select points

April 11th, 2010

From now on I’ll be posting short entries like this, which will show solutions to small problems in graphics tools, programming, OS, and etcetera.

I was working on an assignment (gradient mesh portrait) on Adobe Illustrator, when suddenly I could not see my mesh points. When I hovered on the mesh object I could see the lines, but clicking doesn’t let me select it. I tried drawing a path using the pen tool to check if I could select anchor points, and found out that I couldn’t select them too.
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