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Using this now:

http://www.degraeve.com/rot13.php

Limping through /. front page.

As April Fool's official trolls go, this isn't bad. But no goatse. What gives?

In the spirit of teaching a man to fish rather than handing him a fish, let me recommend that you check out design patterns and page templates. Here are some *great* resources:
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/
http://www.welie.com/patterns/
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/salaakso/patterns/
http://ui-patterns.com/docs/pages/about

This will give you the basics on what needs to go on the page (interaction and information design). If you then skin these items with color palettes that are pleasing to you, you're pretty much good to go. Here are a couple of color palette resources:
http://redalt.com/Tools/I+Like+Your+Colors
http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/index.php (this one is particularly interesting to me in theory - I have not used it, but it seems promising)

simple AJAX example:
http://www.degraeve.com/reference/simple-ajax-exam ple.php

http://www.degraeve.com/magiceightball/

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Design for the lowest common denominator is a bad thing.

Sure, but designing so that things degrade nicely is a good thing, and HTML and CSS make it very easy if you have any clue what you're doing. If it were as easy to have content in stupidese as well as normal speech (machine translation isn't quite there yet), it would be sheer boneheadedness not to.

There's nothing really useful or particularly good at converting bitmaps of any kind to ASCII text, but you could try:
www.degraeve.com/gif2txt.shtml

Rather I'd suggest trying a real ASCII art editor such as PabloDraw for Windows:
pablo.etoxn.ca/PabloDraw.aspx

You can find a good ROT13 decoder here:

This link

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Anybody care to play ROT13 translator???

dont care to lose some quality while your at it?
convert to microsoft-GIF convert to ASCII...and you should end up with a 250*256 bit at most sized (unless i'm mistaken here) image...which can be resized by H(x) html tags or other things for web, or just plain compressed and left like that :)

Screen Shot. However, it is not real :). Saw this on Shacknews.

In the computer world, in the 1960s the most widely available output device was a "line printer". This was a printer which printed up to 132 characters on each line of 11x17 paper. The printer could be told to stay on the same line, so text could be printer over other previously printed text. There were a large number of images developed to be printed out, including ones which were printed in several columns which had to be joined side-to-side (such as an image of a jet flying over the Golden Gate bridge). Both simple printing and overprinting were used. Here is an example circa 1973; it was such a popular technique that even self-portraits were done with it.

There were programs available for creating "printer art". You'd give the program a two-dimensional matrix of integers with the gray scale value desired for each pixel. The programs simply translated the gray scale numbers to the character (or characters) used for the nearest shade of gray. The programs were particularly convenient if you were one of the few people with some sort of image scanning device.

When ASCII became popular, with Teletypes and 72-80 character timesharing terminals becoming common, the same technology was used there. Some artists preferred to (or didn't know about the programs) manually create the art with text editors (or tools like a 1987 program for creating printer art). Some of the same images appeared on terminals.

Obviously, text characters were used simply for their gray-scale pixel value. The same technology can be used for images, by selecting component images based on brightness and color values.

There are now many ASCII Art sites on the Web. This Conversion Programs information is from this ASCII Art FAQ. An online example of a conversion program is GIF2TXT, which converts any online image -- try giving it that Slashdot logo at the upper left of this page. If you don't get enough ASCII Art links here, try the ASCII Art WebRing.

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