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Speaker at WordCamp Atlanta 2012

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I’m proud to announce that I’ve been asked to speak at WordCamp Atlanta this year! WordCamp will be held this weekend and hosted at SCAD Atlanta! My session is titled: From PSD to WordPress Theme: Under the skin. Obviously, I’ll be focusing on themes. We’ll look at what they are, what they can do, how [...]

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Adobe-like Arrow Headers | CSS-Tricks

Zero images is something that always gets me excited, I really like these arrow button styles! I like the css used more and the hover/active states too, nice css3 transitions. via Adobe-like Arrow Headers | CSS-Tricks.

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Style vs Design

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So what’s the difference between design and style? I’ve had to explain that to quite a few clients that think all they need is a good looking website and they will make millions. It has to work and the design has to (subconsciously) show users how it works and it’s a perk if it looks [...]

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The Magic Reset Button

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This magic button is almost always forgotten, but 90% of the time when you don’t see what you think you should be seeing on a webpage, the culprit is the same: cache. Imagine: a few hours after discussing some edits to your site with your trusted designer. Your designer says he just updated the graphics [...]

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Design Matters

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People are amazed at how well Apple is doing, they are doing better now than Microsoft! I think Apple understands the power of design and this has helped get them where they are now. Apple hardware/software (since they are almost the same thing) focus very heavily on appearance and design. Alex of Airtight Interactive points [...]

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Web Design and Carpenters

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Does your website pass the big bad wolf test? I’ve been building websites for years and always enjoy the immediacy of designing and coding a site and having it live relatively quickly. Compare web production to the construction industry where projects span out years and even decades in some cases. Even though the web does [...]

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  • Recent Posts

    Touch Specific Media Queries in CSS4

    Proposals in the works for new media queries specific to touch enabled devices. Examples include pointer, which will differentiate wether the device has a fine or coarse pointer (finger vs mouse) and hover, which would say if the device supports hover states. I can see this being helpful and useful for building mobile friendly sites [...]

    Responsive Image Dispute and Tourists – Analogy

    Jason explains the root of the problem and why no one has been able to devise a solution that makes everyone happy yet. The browsers (in their awesome drive to make browsing faster) are prefetching images and developers want to only use one image based on criteria the browser doesn't know until the layout is [...]

    Google Moog Keyboard Synthesizer Detailed

    This post on creativejs picks apart how this doodlue was made. Nice they they are able to support HTML5 audio even if it is only supported on chrome and the rest fall back to – you guessed it – flash. Embedded Link Google Moog synth tear-down Yesterday we featured Google's web-based analogue synth Moog tribute [...]

    Synth Emulator on Google Japan Doodle Today

    Synth Emulator on Google Japan Doodle Today Embedded Link Moog 自分のオリジナル曲を創って、 #moogdoodle で共有しよう。

    WordPress updates plugin directory

    New additions to the plugin directory include: favorites, incorporating support forums into it's own tab for each plugin as well as support stats being displayed! Great! I think we also need the ability to give plugins ratings and reviews (bonus points if it can be done from within a wordpress admin dashboard when installing plugins). [...]

    Short Head

    Use zipf's short head to tune your website rather than redesign the whole thing. To make a website successful it needs to meet the needs of the users. Find out what those needs are by using the short head philosophy to equate most searched things as the biggest needs of the users. Use personas to [...]

    Img Set?

    Great article at a list apart discusing the state of the industry regarding responsive images. This picks apart the set attribute of the img element from a surprisingly objective view coming from someone so close to the picture element. Insightful discussion about the principle behind the proposals than the actual solution too. If the working [...]

    Triudo

    A mesmerizing animated triangle-ish shape form. Embedded Link triduo triduo

    Git – the paradigm shift

    A great developer story about the differences on what Git is vs other version control and what Git is not. This is how we should learn it. I heard over and over that it was distributed, but never grasped what that meant, so here are a few links and explanations that will help unlearn version [...]

    Tweening Lib comes to Javascript!

    I'm very excited to share the news that the tween library from GreenSock (hands down the best tweening library I used in flash) is not ported for use in javascript! This will be great! I missed that simple syntax from as3 when animating javascript, and now I can have my cake and eat it too. [...]

  • Recent Comments

    Bruce Brownlee

    Bruce Brownlee

    Ah IE6. I'd have 2 more years of sleep without IE6. Margin doubling, no properties,...
    versaena

    versaena

    how to give color at runtime…… thank you
    Mobile Websites

    Mobile Websites

    I disagree, mobile websites are the future – desktop websites and mobile websites...
    Matt Fasick

    Matt Fasick

    That's cool. I like the ripple effect as well.
    Nico

    Nico

    hi! really great job guy! very impressive.. just a question… do u have a solution to do a refresh...
    Evan Mullins

    Evan Mullins

    Agreed! I've just seen some people get pretty heated about separating all functionality...