I found a script on Hicksdesign.co.uk that allows you to create, say, several icons each on a different layer in Illustrator, then export each layer individually as a PNG file.
The pathway on your hard drive for the script to be placed is Adobe Illustrator > Presets > Scripts.
Next, create your Illustrator file with different layers.
Finally, to export the layers as individual PNGs, simply use your Illustrator menu: File > Scripts > SaveLayersAsPNGArtboard
It works great – a handy script to already have loaded in Illustrator for when you really need it!
NOLAF: Fun is contagious and therefore a disease. This is the best time I’ve had interacting with advertising in awhile. After you’ve gone through the site, reload the page and watch the several iterations of the intro and “Home” section. Here’s to Frito-Lay for paying for some great copywriting… Special thanks to Jay Colle for the tip.
Here’s something I discovered recently. Blueprint CSS is a framework that provide you with a base set of style sheets. It has lots of nifty features like”resetting” the browsers’ defaults, assisting with gridded layouts, and establishing a base typography.
This has rapidly become part of my standard toolkit.
I hope Google’s Chrome browser gets more market penetration in the Windows world than Safari so more people can see and appreciate the features of the WebKit browser engine. Here is a nice use of WebKit transitions viewable in Chrome and Safari created by Stu Nicholls.
IE8′s Beta 2 has done away with the “Emulate IE7″ button of the first Beta, and in it’s place is “Compatibility View”, which is invoked with the broken-document button in the toolbar.
IE8 Compatibility View Button
It’s interesting to note that when it comes to Intranets, IE8 defaults to this compatibility setting.
Compatibility View Settings
One assumes Microsoft’s reasoning behind this is that they believe that the typical Intranets are not usually known as bastions of standards-based web design, and tend to be given the lowest priority in an organization. Has anyone ever worked at a place where you had full Intranet functionality on a non-IE browser? There must be some out there. I know that there are some state colleges in Florida that have banned IE from the workplace – I wonder what their Intranets look like?
