Friday, October 9th, 2009

Inline Elements, Block Elements and Text Alignment

CSS provides two different ways of aligning things on your page. There is one set of CSS commands for aligning text and a completely different set of commands for aligning block elements.
Inline Elements, Block Elements and Text Alignment

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Text Alignment Controls

Another of the very basic things that has been able to be done with CSS since way back in the 20th century is to handle Text Alignment.

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Text in Images

When is text not text? When it is a part of an image. As far as most computer programs are concerned text and images are two completely different things and any text that you have placed inside an image is just a part of that image and can’t be read by the program. There are [...]

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Replacing Text in a Graphic

When you have an image that contains text, the text may or may not be all that readable – especially if you have resized the image from its original size. Provided that he text doesn’t overlap anything too complex in the image you should be able to remove hat current text and replace it with [...]

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Textured Text

You can make the heading text of your web page look more interesting if you texture it. By combining some text in an interesting font with an image of something we can apply part of the image as the text colour to make the text more interesting than if we were to just use a [...]

Friday, May 9th, 2008

The Difference Between Binary and Text Files

When coding your C or C++ program (or any related language for that matter) you will need to specify that the files that you read and/or write be opened either in text mode or in binary mode. In this article we examine what the difference actually is between these two modes.
The Difference Between Binary and [...]

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Displaying “Random” Text or Images

Where you don’t have access to use server side processing to place random content into your web page you can use JavaScript to do it for you.
Displaying “Random” Text or Images