Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category
Playing with word(le)s
I love the web site http://www.wordle.net/. Its cool to look at, its fun to play with, its a really interesting way of visualizing what someone is talking about. Go ahead, paste in a paper, article or speech, like magic you [...]
Avoiding Flash in web development
Flash is great. Until it’s not. In the cases where it’s not great, it’s really awful. Here, ironically, the Photoshop site on Adobe.com, is completely useless because the plugin is broken. This week alone I have heard or experienced the [...]
I like… a top 10 list of sites or software
A strange mix of things that I really find useful. It would be impossible for me to qualify everything on this list and a massive number of things will be left off (not missed, I just decided to limit this [...]
A new Responsive Web Design Grid system… free to download.
This morning I awoke to see that my friend and fellow designer Nick (of Pulp and Pixels and TechSmith) had released his Columnal CSS grid system. This impressive bit of code allows you to go all the way from a [...]
Smoked salmon, egg, onion. On a cracker…
Its better than you can even imagine. Its crazy good. The recipe is below. I take no responsibility if you become addicted! Perhaps like me you love a little salmon, but don’t eat it often enough. Perhaps you need a [...]
How to name your iPad App
The last couple weeks I have been working on an idea for an iPad meal planner app. So far, interest has been great. I have some developers who have started to think about how to code the idea, search traffic [...]
Multi background in IE with CSS3.
One of my counterparts at TechSmith has just posted this amazing blog article about something that he has figured out about CSS3 + multiple background images AND Internet Explorer. This is the first time I have seen anyone doing this. [...]
Representative Mike Rogers, is this balanced security?
Earlier this week I received a letter back from Representative Mike Rogers, who wrote back to me with a disappointing and startling letter. In it Mr. Rogers states”Please rest assured that I will be closely monitoring these developments and working in Congress [...]
Video Tutorial: Building a custom color palette
If you are looking for a way to create a color palette that looks great and has enough color choices to satisfy your design needs, check out this tutorial. Its easy, quick and once you do it once, you can [...]
Setting up a custom WordPress Theme – Part 2
So far, setting up the WP site has been pretty cool. The install was quick, and the learning curve for WP small. Plus the satisfaction of going from (nearly) zero to live in a couple days has been great. A [...]