CSS3 to make pretty buttons
This is taken from here. The CSS: .send { border: 1px solid #E2A812; border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1), 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4) inset; color: white; cursor:...
View ArticleSeeing things as they are (an exercise in wireframing)
So, a few weeks ago, when I was using brainpower to work on blog/site redesign (which has a concept … but I need to do the artwork!), I talked wireframing. I thought, why not practice off existing...
View ArticleJust JavaScript: Prototyping with Node and Express
Last night, I gave a little talk about prototyping and Express at Node.ph’s holiday presentations. A very nice event, and I really enjoyed listening to all the presentations. Here are the resources...
View ArticleSimplifying animation with CollieJS (plus, a dancing reindeer!)
When I read about Collie in a recent issue of Appliness, I knew I had to give it a try. While you can do simple animations like this one easily in pure CSS, something about Collie is appealing — it...
View ArticleCompass sprites and retina displays #sass
I’ve been doing a lot more work lately on the mobile web, that is, specifically targeting mobile devices. As if I needed more reasons to love Compass, it also makes it easy to optimize your sprites for...
View ArticleBelated: I’m in print!
My opinion piece is in the June issue of .net magazine, available in the States now, or if you’re in Europe, you can still get the digital edition (it’ll also likely be online eventually). My mug in...
View ArticleLink dump from #SassConf
A few of my favorite links from SassConf. CSS Spinners (a cute site!) http://css-spinners.com/#/spinners/ True library https://github.com/ericam/true (ZOMG TESTING) Our eyes are biased re: light and...
View ArticleAccessing your local environment from a Windows VM (tutorial)
Filing under: not very interesting but very useful (I hope) tutorials, here’s a step-by-step guide to accessing your local server (ex. the one you’ve got running on localhost:3000). Why might you need...
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