April 2010
2 posts
4 tags
WatchWatch
This is a little corny, but its quite interesting when you apply it to the growth of a new website!
Apr 8th
6 tags
WOW. So much going on in the last few months!
Hello Everyone, WOW. Everything has been just SO busy recently! We have been rushing around the country for what seems like the last year, even though it’s only been a few months! Thank you to everyone who has got in touch to date! So… :) News, news, news! Well, we met up and took on a fantastic new accountants - we officially welcome Tom & team into the Microwave family!...
Apr 8th
February 2010
5 posts
3 tags
Quality="best” is better
[EDIT: This post applies to Flash 8 only. Flash 9 has a different way of handling stage quality] This is something that is not very well documented, so I thought I’d point it out here. By default Flash will publish your movie at quality=”high”. Setting the quality setting to “best” is a good idea if you are doing any scaling or rotating of images. Leaving the quality as high can lead to...
Feb 16th
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Getting a footer to stick constantly to the bottom...
This CSS footer stylesheet will make a footer stick to the bottom of the page. CSS Sticky Footer Make the Footer Stick to the Bottom of a Page There are several ways to make a footer stick to the bottom of a page using CSS. But until now, they’ve used long and messy hacks or a lot of extra HTML markup; this method uses only 15 lines of CSS and hardly any HTML markup. Even better, it’s...
Feb 15th
5 tags
Displaying a certain number of characters without...
The Microwave team has now decided to start writing down all of the small tricks and tips that they find whilst developing… This is the basic theory behind what we are going to do and what lots of people start looking at to achieve their goal… Description string substr ( string $string , int $start [, int $length ] ) Returns the portion of string specified by the start and length...
Feb 15th
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Vidly - Video on Twitter →
Video on Twitter
Feb 1st
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CHALLENGE - Retweet in real life
How often do you Retweet in real life, if ever? Spend a day retweeting real life… see where it leads you!
Feb 1st
January 2010
1 post
New website!
The new Microwave Media website is almost ready!! Check it out soon….
Jan 3rd