Dimitry’s Blog

Portfolio is live!

March 27th, 2007

I recently decided that I need an organized way to keeping track of projects and also at the same time, be able to showcase them. So I quickly came up with a one-page-layout portfolio, but it wasn’t me. It wasn’t showcasing my interests and talents in itself. I wanted my portfolio to not only showcase previous work, but to be a showcase item itself. I wanted it to be something simple, yet be able to get the message across and show what I really love to do on the web.

Hope it worked:
» http://www.arthero.com

IE6 issues

For some reason, the whole PNG Alpha Transparency CSS hack for IE6 isn’t working for me anymore:

filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='image.png',» sizingMethod=’scale’);

I’m sure I’m missing something small, yet I can’t track it down. If anyone has any ideas, hints, tips, etc., please let me know!

Technical note: Today’s browser war is won by IE7 as it renders animations much smoother than any other browser I’ve tested with. Safari is a clear second, while Firefox (on both PC and Mac) is really sluggish and comes in third. Surprised? So was I. IE6 is a clear looser for not having Alpha Transparency support.

  1. Sujay Thomas

    March 27th, 2007 »

    Looking pretty snazzy dude. I like it. Regarding the PNG problem, I use a very simple method. Insert this into your CSS:

    img {
    vertical-align: middle;
    border-style: none;
    behavior:url(/includes/iepngfix.htc);
    }

    Of course, you’ll have to upload iepngfix.htc to your own server and point the CSS url to the appropriate location. Sometimes you may need to set the mimetype for .htc in your server by adding the mimetype to your .htaccess:

    AddType text/x-component .htc

    It works perfectly. The only thing you have to worry about it setting the width and height attributes to the tag.

    Good luck!

  2. Aleksey

    May 9th, 2007 »

    As a noob I think you’re a design genius. Your work is inspiring.

  3. Yerbol

    May 20th, 2007 »

    Your portfolio page looks absolutely amazing A+++
    Great Job!