Hey all – as some of you may know I have been experimenting with a new animation tool that google is offering for free during the beta phase. It’s called Google Web Designer. It’s a keyframe based animation program that is designed to allow you to easily animate elements onto a canvas and then embed… Read more »
http://typecast.com/blog/a-more-modern-scale-for-web-typography A More Modern Scale for Web Typography ON WEDNESDAY 15TH OF JANUARY 2014 In RWD, the proportions and rhythm of your body, headers & measure deserve as much attention as margins, floats & media queries. Jason Pamental of H+W Design explains why, plus throws in a scale you can use and a live demo. I’m a big believer in… Read more »
by Aurelio De Rosa – Published January 16, 2014 As a front-end developer you no doubt use HTML constantly and probably feel it doesn’t have any more unknowns. Nevertheless, the way it has evolved (in particular with the advent of HTML5) may surprise you at times. In this article, I’ll show you 10 HTML tags… Read more »
by David Watson – 18 July, 2013 jQuery and CSS3 have drastically altered the approach web designing and development was done. It has permitted developers & designers to generate some truly stunning and astonishing components relatively effortlessly deprived of much exertion or coding. They also demonstrate to be time savers as they also allow you… Read more »
If you hate how embeded youtube videos look as much as I do, here’s a few edits you can make to the embed code to clean things up. You can see an example of the finished product at this link: http://www.wewantbooks.com/ Step one: get embed code from youtube When you first get the code it will… Read more »
Did you know that WP Customer Reviews has a shortcode available that allows you to display snippets of the testimonials? It’s something that is located in the settings of the plugin but I had overlooked it…if you did too take a look to see how you can add the shortcode to and text area including… Read more »
Have you ever accidentally made a typo while coding CSS? or forgot to close your statement with a ; ? If so then you know what its like to scour through 4000 lines of CSS or more looking for a semi colon, and missing curly bracket. Well this tool will save you hours of going… Read more »
Here’s a quick way to set up tracking off site clicks in Google Analytics. While it’s not the only solution, it’s a quick, simple, and efficient one. This is useful for things like social media buttons and in a recent case of mine, offsite reservations (obvious benefits). My example: before: <a href=”https://secure.rezovation.com/Reservations/CheckAvailability.aspx?_0N7TPESA4ATXGS” target=”blank”>Make a Reservation!</a>… Read more »
Creativity is about working within your given boundaries. If you are always able to do what you want, then yes you can be pretty creative but when you are given restrictions you must find a way to work with, for some reason you’re able to get even more creative. I guess I understand from some… Read more »
I know I’ve used a few patterns/textures from here in the past as an alternative to subtlepatterns.com. There are browser support issues (make sure to read about them), so I wouldn’t say it’s an ideal alternative, nor would I use them on every site you develop, but if you absolutely must use a texture on… Read more »
