A specific use of drag and drop which is a bit more complicated than your average drag & drop needs is a slider. You can use components, but I usually prefer using my own graphics and code, partly because the components tend to bloat the filesize of the swf and partly because that’s just how [...]
Overview Integrating the clipboard of the operating system with your flash projects is sometimes essential. It’s a very simple and boils down to one basic method… System.setClipboard(). I’ve found a couple other things help the user experience though, such as selecting the text that gets copied and giving the user some sort of feedback to [...]
StomperNet‘s Scrutinizer has recieved some updates! New help documentation Keyboard Shortcut Functionality saving a screenshot bookmarking a page toggling the visualization toggle auto-zoom Aesthetic improvements Performance optimizations Improved auto-update. If you’re wondering what the heck StomperNet‘s Scrutinizer is: What is it? The Scrutinizer is a web browser, based upon the Adobe AIR toolkit and the [...]
Software for viewing websites through a simulated fovea vision. Since not everyone could set-up, let alone afford a real eye-tracker. This software uses the mouse pointer as the user’s focal point, or foveal view. It blurs everything except where your focal point (the mouse) is. It is helpful because it forces you to re-think web [...]
Scrutinizer is constantly being updated and enhanced and with the launch of Adobe AIR 1.0 is easier than ever to install! It now supports bookmarking, capturing and saving screenshots and displays progress as pages load. With even more to come soon! Go check it out at StomperNet’s public site for free download! Here’s some images [...]
StomperNet releases Scrutinizer, software for viewing websites through a simulated fovea vision. Since not everyone could set-up, let alone afford a real eye-tracker. This software uses the mouse pointer as the user’s focal point, or foveal view. It blurs everything except where your focal point (the mouse) is. It is helpful because it forces you [...]
Here are my slides for my WordCamp Atlanta presentation, From PSD to WordPress Theme: Under the skin: PSD to WP on Prezi
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 [...]
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.
After playing with the settings in my experiments I found a few settings I liked and wanted to develop further. The first was snow! An added bonus I was able to work on a project just for the holidays and used much of this code in it! I looked around the web and saw a [...]
Mat discusses the options for getting responsive images along with responsive designs. We can use various means (server-side, client-side, mobile-first, html5 data attributes, cookies…), but none are fully satisfactory, especially with new browsers prefetching images before cookies can be set or html is even fully read and parsed. He states that bandwidth sniffing is… a [...]
Here’s a great article about the process of responsive design & mobile first design and how to practically use them both in a project. This site is a proof of concept for many of the ideas described in Rethinking the Mobile Web or (Mobile First Responsive Design). via Yiibu – About this site….
Here’s a great tool to make responsive grid layouts. Thanks to Erskine Labs! Introducing Gridpak | Erskine Labs.
Here’s a great little script I found useful today as I was working on having dynamic effects applied to javascript via canvas. “The canvas element provides scripts with a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas, which can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly.” Thanks to the canvas APIs I was [...]
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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