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All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts

Chris
Posted by Chris April 29, 2008
Categories: Design, Dugg

Crayola 24 PackColour Lovers have a great page for fans of Crayola crayons. Includes the not only the names of all the colour names, but also the RGB and Hexadecimal references, useful for graphic and website designers alike.

“For the last 100 years or so kids have been exploring and creating worlds of color with Crayons. For a lot of us, our life long love affairs with color began with these wax sticks and a blank sheet of paper. Here we go down crayon color memory lane with all 120 color names and hex codes, fun facts and photos.”

All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts
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Adapting a WordPress Theme For Your Blog

Chris
Posted by Chris March 21, 2008
Categories: Blog24 Progress, WordPress

There have been a number of steps taken to convert Nurudin Jauhari’s Indian Muslims (IM) Wordpress theme to the design that you see before you today.

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As this theme uses images in the header area I thought it wise to replace them with my own work. I chose simple images that were not too busy and distracting and cropped them to the correct size before uploading them to the server.

The next image I changed was the favicon.ico - as shown here: Old favicon > New Blog24 favicon

Although there were a number of minor images to change or edit (those used for subtle effects) the last main graphic that required changing was the background. I wanted to keep it simple but somewhat random. I took the aforementioned favicon and pasted it onto the plain background in fairly random places, obviously it was coloured accordingly and random single pixel dots were added just add a very slight suggestion of texture.

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