Great overview on how to usefully understand hex colors and how to manage them.
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The Code Side Of Color | Smashing Coding
Pixels on back-lit screens are dark until lit by combinations of red, green, and blue. Hex numbers represent these combinations with a concise code.
Here's a great analogy about how a shared culture and standards can greatly inspire innovation and success. Playing music (bluegrass or not) each player "takes turns" at playing lead and all contribute to the whole. They play along the same set of standards but also improvise and bring their own flair and interpretation. Business leaders should learn from this and establish culture related standards, follow them and expect to contribute to a project bigger than self.
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What Bluegrass Musicians Can Teach Business About Collaboration
A fiddler, a mandolin player, and a guitarist meet in a corner of a small pub, exchange some words of greeting and begin to tune and warm up their instruments. After a minute of tentative plucking and…
Using pseudo classes and labels we can simply style a checkbox in every modern browser! I had this idea and did a quick search to find that it's been done- and done well!
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Creating Custom Form Checkboxes and Radio Buttons with Just CSS! | InsertHTML
In CSS we have many ways to style things in any way we want. When it gets to forms though, things get a little complicated. Text inputs are easy, but checkboxes and radio buttons are very difficult to…
A post written for BrandFever, where I work. Working on teaching clients and coworkers the technical lingo they need to be effective in an interactive industry. It may develop into a series of digital 101 topics for the non-initiated. This one briefly describes how the internet and how it works – trying to keep it simple informative. It's a really big world wide network – not rocket surgery.
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Digital 101: Understanding How the Internet Works Will Benefit Every Web Design Project – Brand Fever | Brand and Marketing Firm
Being a web developer, I'm in the trenches of the web every day. I speak digital, web, interactive, ux, css, html, embed, script, etc. I am familiar and even comfortable with the terms and language of…
I really enjoy most everything curated from Creative JS. These are particularly superb.
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Latest Creative Links
Once again, it’s time for a small collection of the links we’ve been sharing on our Facebook page.
Strange Attractors
We had a day of hypnotic mathematical wonders a couple of weeks ago when we shared a lot of Strange Attractors.
Jacob Seidelin’s introduction is a nice place to start to get an idea of what they are all about. We then have the De Jong Attractor by Jeremy Ashkenas before Felix Woitzel demonstrates both the Rikitake Attractor and t…
Ryan puts many of my thoughts to words here. The web is open and available, with devices getting better and better we will have more expectation and familiarity with mobile browsers being as good as desktop. Why do I need to download an app for every function I'd do on my phone or every website I visit? No, this is not the answer, the whole point to the web is easily sharing information; making information accessible. Mobile explodes this! But not by pushing apps at people and storing app on them. The connectivity to the web is the real power of a mobile device. The web is where it's at =)
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The Mobile Web is Always the Right Answer | Ryan Stewart – Mountaineer Coding
It's been interesting to continue to watch the fallout of Facebook's native announcement because so many smart people are discussing the web versus native dynamic. What I find both fascinating and odd…
Using canvas and wind forecast details here's a visualization of the wind patterns across the country.
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Wind Map
Wind Map is a captivating visualization of wind data across the United States built with canvas. The swirling map takes an invisible for
Here are some really great tips for working responsively. Covers things like: Think flexible, use proportions, viewport attributes and max/min-width "philosophies".
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Five steps to gettin’ flexy in responsive web design | Feature | .net magazine
Dave Rupert, lead developer at Paravel, gives essential tips and tricks on becoming flexible in responsive web design
Justin Tadlock proposes a way to feature widget only plugins which would be as simple as plug and play widgets! Here is the running list: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/widget-only
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Proposal for widget-only plugins in the repository
Proposal for distinguishing standalone widgets from other plugins in the WordPress plugin repository.
Great review of a few possibilities when it comes to passive income. I'm always itching to invest time into something to increase passive funds, but time is hard to come by. There's no way to add any more time to the day, so it's just a matter of prioritizing.
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Passive Income Strategies For Web Designers | Smashing Magazine
Finding ways to earn passive income is a growing concern among many freelance designers. I’ve always loved client work, but I have to admit that after a while the pressure of juggling multiple bosses …
The presentation? Your firstborn child theme. Child themes 101+2. I’m speaking at wordcamp atlanta this afternoon about themes and child themes. I’ll update this post with post-presentation notes. Learn how to mod themes the right way. Using child themes you won’t loose your edits when there’s a theme update. (101) We’ll go over the advantages [...]
I’ve published another article over on wpdaily.co exploring the concept of hooks. I remember when starting out that people kept mentioning hooks and filters and actions and… it took a while to grasp what they each meant. I think the first time I started to grasp it was when I read the codex and saw [...]
I’m excited to be speaking at WordCamp Atlanta again this year! The time is quickly approaching for WordCamp Atlanta 2013, March 15-16. I spoke last year and discussed the process of going from Photoshop PSD to WordPress Theme, here are my slides and notes for that WordCamp Presentation. This year I’m speaking along the same [...]
Reading my wpdaily.co updates today and saw this post talking about WordPress theme features. Eric explains the debate: Generally-speaking, the conversations have always circled around features: There are those that believe every feature you could ever imagine should be included like text color, font selector, and more. On the flip-side, there are those that feel [...]
David Desandro / metafizzy, maker of masonry and isotope of which I’m a big fan and user of has been busy with a new project called Packery. Packery, looks to be a child of Masonry. As you would expect it seems to be pushing things much further and addressing a few pain points of masonry. [...]
I needed to write this up about going responsive in response after reading Where to Start (by Trent Walton of Paravel) about getting started with responsive web design. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Trent, I agree whole heartedly. In my experience it is the same. I wanted to share his post and also add my [...]
I'm Evan Mullins. I'm a web designer and am very interested in the intersection of art & technology, user experience, and interactive design. I like contributing to make the web incrementally a better place. I love simultaneously solving problems & making things aesthetically brilliant. circlecube is my interactive design site chock full of tutorials, critiques, techniques, technologies, ramblings and a playground of experiments. Welcome to it!
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