[WSG] advice on background images?

2010-11-26 Thread cat soul
Any tips on how to minimize or eliminate how obvious it is where the tiles meet when you have the background image repeat? thanks cs *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

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2010-11-26 Thread Ruth, Jodie
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Re: [WSG] advice on background images?

2010-11-26 Thread David Storey
On 26 Nov 2010, at 22:32, cat soul wrote: Any tips on how to minimize or eliminate how obvious it is where the tiles meet when you have the background image repeat? Use a better background-image? I’m not sure what you mean? bg images repeat if you tell it to do. You either have an image

RE: [WSG] advice on background images?

2010-11-26 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Any tips on how to minimize or eliminate how obvious it is where the tiles meet when you have the background image repeat? I'm not sure what this has to do with web standards, but you can check out http://tutorialblog.org/make-repeating-seamless-tile-backgrounds-with-photos hop/ Best

Re: [WSG] advice on background images?

2010-11-26 Thread Henrik Madsen
Have you checked that the tiles, do in fact tile seamlessly? Henrik Madsen +61 08 9387 1250 hen...@igenerator.com.au www.igenerator.com.au On 27/11/2010, at 5:32 AM, cat soul wrote: Any tips on how to minimize or eliminate how obvious it is where the tiles meet when you have the

Re: [WSG] advice on background images?

2010-11-26 Thread Jon @ The PixelForge
Again, I'm not sure if this deserves place in WSG, but to give you some direction: Photoshop has an Offset filter. Combined with the clone tool you can usually generate repeating images relatively quickly. Quality depends on a lot of factors though. I would recommend you try somewhere like

Re: [WSG] advice on background images?

2010-11-26 Thread cat soul
Hi, Jon; Thanks for the offer of more info on this, and sorry for bending (breaking?) the main purpose of WSG! Any info you can offer on this subject would be a huge help! cs On Nov 26, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Jon @ The PixelForge wrote: Again, I'm not sure if this deserves place in WSG, but

[WSG] Site for Vision Impaired

2010-11-26 Thread Daniel Anderson
G'day Everyone, I was wondering if any of you have done any work on sites for the visually impaired? I have just started a projet for a school for the visually impaired and the site must cater for these people, and obvioulsy for people with normal eysite. What are the considerations I need to

Re: [WSG] Site for Vision Impaired

2010-11-26 Thread David Laakso
On 11/26/10 6:25 PM, Daniel Anderson wrote: What are the considerations I need to take into account with a project like this? eg ability to change contrast, text size etc? Are there any good resources or advice you could share with me? With regard, to typography the consideration is the

Re: [WSG] Site for Vision Impaired

2010-11-26 Thread John Unsworth
Hi Daniel, It maybe has incorrectly become a by-word for accessibility, but web standards are certainly your first step to provide sites for vision or indeed other disability needs. I was wondering if any of you have done any work on sites for the visually impaired? I have never specifically