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This question is more license related then technical, hope this is OK for you.
We have a website with fullscreen background images. Now we figured out that companies like istockphoto or shutterstock don't allow you to show images bigger than 1200x800 on websites.
Do you know:
- are there some companies who do have licenses for fullscreen website backgrounds?
- are there technical ways to circumvent copying of images and therefor licenses which allow the protected use of hires-images?
First of all, any image you'll display in an HTML based web-size can't be protected from being downloaded. There are ways to make that task more complex for novice users, such as adding it as a CSS background, forbidding the right-click, etc... but it won't resist more advanced users and firebug like tools.
Another possible solution is to add a copyright at the bottom of the picture and make it so it is not visible in the fullscreen mode via CSS (make the image larger than the screen), but it will be displayed once downloaded. A great example:
Look at the photo on this web-page: http://1x.com/photo/46293/all/latest-additions/childhood-beauty
Try to see the photo only now and see the copyright message at the bottom: http://imghost.1x.com/46293.jpg
Finally, regarding getting licecenses for fullscreen website backgrounds, you'd be better of either creating your own pictures if possible, or directly contact the author of the photos to ask if they accept it. Also various free stock exchange web-sites exists such as http://www.sxc.hu/ which might not provide the best quality but at least they will suit your conditions. Alternative web-sites with free or public-domain photos:
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/
http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/
Various public domain sources: http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/public-domain-photographs.html
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Apple's page for iPhoneX is stunning, and I would like to know how to replicate some features on the site. See the link (https://www.apple.com/iphone-xr/)
I have very little knowledge about web development. I know html and css are the most common languages used for web development. Is this the same for the Apple website?
I am particularly interested in how to create animations while scrolling, a feature I see in many websites. As the user scrolls, new images and moving text are displayed on screen.
The link used in the question as well as other regional websites of Apple Inc. are based on a typical HTML-CSS platform(primarily).
Please note that the animations are based on js (also css).
The animations look really nice as they have divided the pages into dedicated DIVs and have used plenty of effects like onHover ,mouseUP, visibilityChange, scrolling-related stuff and what not.
You can use Ctrl+Shift+I to inspect the elements on ANY wesite for that matter, that will give you the idea of what the contents of a site really are.... !!
What 'Inspect element' looks like
This effect can be achieved in the following ways:
Sorted from the most difficult:
Code it yourself using vanilla Javascript(see: https://css-tricks.com/lets-make-one-of-those-fancy-scrolling-animations-used-on-apple-product-pages/)
Code it yourself using a Javascript libraries
GSAP (see: https://youtu.be/wLUJ9VNzZXo)
ScrollMagic (see: https://scrollmagic.io/examples/expert/image_sequence.html )
or without coding:
Scrollsequence WordPress Plugin
(see: https://wordpress.org/plugins/scrollsequence/)
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I wanted to know that sometimes when I search for something on google it shows some results(website links), but it also shows some important links on that website.
I wanted to know that is it a feature of the website or Google uses something to find those main links of the website? Is it related to search engine optimization?
You probably mean Google’s sitelinks.
We only show sitelinks for results when we think they'll be useful to the user. If the structure of your site doesn't allow our algorithms to find good sitelinks, or we don't think that the sitelinks for your site are relevant for the user's query, we won't show them.
(See this [closed] question.)
It has to do with click-through rates of those links. For example, Googling 'Amazon' brings up amazon.com, with a handful of links below: Books, Kindle e-Books, Music, etc.
These are obviously popular categories on Amazon, and Google tracks where users click, then uses that data to make serps more relevant.
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I am trying to collaborate with a graphic designer sitting on the other side of the world. The only communication medium we have is a phone line. Every time she makes even a minute change to an element on a page, she has to take a screenshot, save it and mail it - all manually till now.
As you can guess, this gets downright irritating and is significantly hampering progress on the project.
My idea is to create a simple .xls file with a macro which will capture a specific hotkey combination (in a global manner) so that she can just press ctrl+shift+q (or whatever) from inside her photoshop / illustrator with the .xls file open and minimised (and the macro listening for the key combo) and this key combo would capture the screenshot and send it to outlook / thunderbird as an attachment just waiting for the send button.
My question is whether this is the best (and free) method of achieving this and if it is then how can we make an excel macro listen for global hotkeys, capture screenshot and mail?
We have this. Our designers are based in San Francisco and our developers are all over the world (most in Auckland). We use a lot of Microsoft Shared View to see each other's desktops. We also have a defined diagramming style of wire diagrams that are used to communicate intention.
We tend to use a lot of screen captures and the snagit tool from Tech Smith is excellent. Once you've captured what you want, it can go straight to email, or a document, or in fact anywhere as they have a number of capture profiles and an api you can use. It really is a worthwhile tool for the amount it gets used.
You can use TeamViewer.
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Teamviewer is only free for non commercial use. There are a number of alternatives to this including a variety of VNC type products. Just search for free remote desktop tools.
I take it the other side does not have a permanent internet connection?
In that case should check out a screenshot utility like Snagit. Though not free it does everything you need.
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I am about to embark on a jquery journey I have not ever done. I will be developing a site that has one objective : to display over 300 uncategorized images (artwork). I'm just trying to think about the best way to go about displaying all these images in an easy to navigate, elegant way. I could use thumbnails and lightbox, but that's boring. I want to get inventive! Any cool ideas?
What's the objective of the people coming to view the images? Is it just browsing, or will they be looking for particular images? Are the images grouped into themes or artist or something? You have to build a navigation system that makes it easy for your users to achieve their goal!
Perhaps, if its more browsing some creative theme of images I wonder if you could come up with a scheme that lets users find their way between images naturally. Perhaps have several paths through the images, that when you view one you have a couple of options for where to 'go' next. Almost mimic the kind of browsing you might experience in an art gallery?
I wouldn't say that 300 images is a "ton" by any stretch.
Go visit photo sites like Flickr, SmugMug, and Picasa. Find the websites for wedding and journalist photographers. See what they're doing. If you can't figure out how to navigate their site in 10 seconds, stay away from similar site designs.
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I once bought a single license of Microangelo for creating icons which served me well in the past, but now I'm helping run up a new Virtual Machine base for our dev team to use and would like to include a decent free icon editor in there.
I'd prefer something that fully supports creating icons for Windows Vista.
For all those of you thinking "Don't let a developer design graphics!" just pretend I said "for our UI Design Team" instead of "Dev Team", lol. ;)
That's simple, because it's free, powerfull and supports Vista Icons (256x256): IcoFx
On this site you can find a tool for (animated) cursors, too: AniFx
If you want to pay, I'd suggest a more powerful ones: Axialis Iconworkshop
I would use Inkscape to design the icons, and then render them scaled down and convert them to the final format with Gimp
The benefit of this is you can design the icon once, and produce it in many target sizes effortlessly.
That's what the OpenSource world are doing these days :) ( We even have Native SVG Icons now )
I would recommend Paint.NET, or The GIMP. They're not specifically for icons, but will do the job and much more. Also, both free.
EDIT: Paint.NET requires plugin (free).
For icons, there's IcoFX.