How to Create Multiple Columns Using CSS3
https://youtu.be/Gln5rpqZAck In this CSS3 tutorial, you'll learn how to create multiple columns using CSS3. You'll see how to use the column-width, column-gap and column-count properties to make long blocks of text readable and responsive to your user's preferred resolution. Visit our CSS3 Training page for more...
CSS3 Multiple Columns
Doing a basic web page text layout using more than one column has been much more of a chore than it ever should have been. In the early days of web design almost everything was built using tables. Actually tables inside tables inside tables. Along comes...
QlikView Quick Suggestions: Moving a Comma for Quick Editing
Here is a simple and very straight forward suggestion when working in QlikView’s Script Editor. When you are loading data from any source and your LOAD statement has a list of fields that you may want to shorten at some point; consider this simple suggestion. The...
Cropping Images with CSS
There are times when you want to focus on a specific area of a photograph but don’t need a separate, cropped version of the picture. CSS offers an approach that will maintain the complete, original image but allow you to crop, mask, or clip your picture....
Using CSS3 Instead of JavaScript
CSS3 has been in development since 1998, that’s right, 1998. Both CSS1 and CSS2 became standards in quick succession, December of 1996 for CSS1, and May of 1998 for CSS2. One of the main differences between CSS3 and its predecessors is the use of documents or...
QlikView–Moving the “Unmovable” Object
QlikView is without a doubt one of my most favorite programs to teach.  The capabilities for modeling and visualizing data are just amazing.  But for all of QlikView’s shine and wonder, it’s not without its shortcomings.  I really shouldn’t say “shortcomings”, but there are a few...
Microsoft Word – 10 Features that will Improve Your Workflow
With so many features packed inside each Microsoft application, it’s easy to overlook some that can really add value to your daily workflow.  Below is a list of some of the features you may have never noticed but will quickly become part of your daily routine....
Preserving White Space Using CSS
We find it easy working with white space in today’s generation of applications. In word processing pressing the spacebar, tab key, enter, return, or even shift+ enter and what they deliver are all things we have grown to expect. That isn’t the case when designing for...
Project – Change Currency Styles in Costs
If you’re used to changing the way currency values are displayed in Excel, you might want to exercise the same choices when viewing costs in Microsoft Project.  Although changing the look of costs can be done in Project, it’s not as immediately obvious as to how....
10+ Web Resources for Front End Developers
Things on the web move so fast they make the idea of “time flies” seem slow. The World Wide Web has been available to the public since 1991, 25 years this fall. Most people today couldn’t imagine life without the web. Developers are faced with a...
Change Colors Using Blending Modes in Photoshop
There are times when everything about the picture you’ve just taken seems to be perfect. Then, when it comes time to use it, you discover one key color just doesn’t work. Or you need the same item in more than one color. Using Photoshop one solution...
QlikView – Suppress Splash Screen
We spend so much time trying to make things run as quickly and efficiently as possible, but sometimes we just can't help ourselves when it comes to self-promotion. QlikView loves making things go fast; starting QlikView is another story. As if we were unaware that we...
Photoshop Interface Easter Egg
Easter eggs in software have been around since 1978. The term was made popular by developers at Atari after game designer Warren Robinett placed his name as a hidden message within the game Adventure. Finding the message was like going on an Easter egg hunt. Today,...
Excel – Hide Records with Zeroes in Pivot Table Calculations
One of the most asked questions of beginning, and sometimes seasoned, pivot table users is “How do I hide the entries in a pivot table whose totals equal zero?”  On first blush, this seems like an easy feat, but users quickly discover that it’s not as...
Photoshop; Finding an Image Center
There are times when it would be helpful to find and mark the exact center point of an image. Let’s discuss a few ways this can be done. The most manual way of doing it can be done by opening the menu option, Image > Image...
Photoshop Tips and Tricks; Rotate View Tool
There are times when you discover a tool or technique that has been there for a while. I believe all Photoshop users experience this at some point. The Rotate View Tool is one such tool for me. It was introduced with Photoshop CS4 and I must...
Crystal Reports – Add True Bullets to a List in a Text Object with the CHRW Function
Suppose you want to display a list of items in a text object and you want that list to appear as a bulleted list.  If your list is hard coded (i.e. USA, Canada, Mexico), then you could simply type the character that represents a bullet, like...
Microsoft Project – Display Estimated Durations with a Different Color in a Gantt Chart
When working with tasks in a project, it is common practice to display a duration as an estimate.  Displaying an estimated duration prepares the viewer for possible changes in scheduling.  An estimated duration takes the form of a question mark placed after the declared duration. The...
QlikView – Formatting Expressions in List Boxes
When adding an expression to a list box, one of the common complaints is that the numbers displayed are devoid of any number formatting.  This is especially frustrating when displaying large numbers without commas to ease readability. What most beginning report developers try is to format...
Excel Hidden Camera Tool – Great for Dashboards
If you are an Excel user who likes to create charts, design dashboards, or just likes to play with neat toys in Excel, this tutorial is going to be right up your alley. Excel contains (in a super-secret place) a hidden camera.  “But why would I...