"Blog This!"

A Personal blog from me, Matt Johnson, owner of twistedindustries.com, this is where you can get to know me a little better, hopefully not too well though. Check back here to see posts about projects I am working on, interesting things I happen to come upon, tech tips, tattoos, hot rods, and of course anything mini-truckin related. I may be a little unconventional, but give it a chance, your mom always said “never judge a book by its cover”, I am no exception. Cover your eyes if you don’t like tattoos.

Monday, February 08, 2010

FLIR - Facelift Image Replacement

Recently I was looking at a webpage and noticed that it would load text, and before the page was loaded, as the final pieces of javascript were being loaded I noticed all the titles seemed to change to a font.  I thought wow!  They are taking plain text and having it replaced, with what I assumed javascript, with images making the titles into a font.

You may ask, what does this mean?  So what I see that all the time?  No, you probably haven't, see usually the designer of the website has to pre-generate images for titles like that, now if that title has to change its not a matter of just jumping in the code and changing it, you now have to open photoshop, find the text, re-type, save as an image, upload, and re-adjust your source code as needed.  This presents a real problem with text that is generated from a database, like for instance from a content management system.

For more information and instructions please visit their webpage.

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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

NOFX Fermented and Flailing 2010

NOFX Fermented and Flailing 2010

Cokie the Clown
Cokie the Clown pictured above

One of my favorite punk bands and in my opinion, one the greatest punk bands ever, NOFX are coming to Spokane, WA.  Yes, they are.  Seriously.  They will be playing April, 22nd at the Knitting Factory.  And at half the price of 311, I think it will be well worth the 20 bucks.


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