Posts tagged ‘webdev’
Sep 29
2011
Gradient is a very polished tool for creating CSS3 gradients in a visual way. If you’re not familiar with CSS3 syntax, it looks a little like this:
background-color: #000106;background-image: -webkit-gradient(radial, 50% 100%,100,50% -50%,100, to(rgba(41, 63, 125, 1.00)), from(rgba(0, 1, 6, 1.00))); Mar 28
2011
If you’re a web designer with a Mac, you probably use–or at least know of–CSSEdit. In it’s heyday, it was the way to edit CSS. It’s fallen a little out of repair; it doesn’t recognize new selectors and properties (which messes up color coding and completion). Plus, it doesn’t play well with nifty frameworks like LESS or SASS, if you’re in the habit of using those. My…
Mar 13
2011
A Pinboard redesign built off of the styles started by Josh Pigford, I’m providing a bare stylesheet which works with StyleBot on Chrome and User CSS on Safari. The Chrome version can be installed straight from Stylebot.me. Stylebot.me also has a userscript version which could be used with Greasemonkey, but my styles don’t seem to translate well to Firefox, yet. I’ll work on…
Mar 07
2011
After my epic three-part post on Saturday, I spent the rest of the weekend doing more “useful” things. Now it’s Sunday night (Monday morning, I think), and I’ve got some kind of minor food poisoning which is currently keeping me awake. Thus a “hey, cool trick” post.
I actually already own an app which can do this to some extent, and I know there are more available…
Feb 04
2011
I put up a dummy replacement for the Winona Chiropractic site yesterday. I didn’t expect many people to see it, except hopefully the client. It’s gone viral on Twitter in the meantime, and I just wanted to verify that yes, it was real.
I have waited for several years for this client to pay me. I have sent statements. I have been told that it would be “taken care of.” It…
Oct 07
2010
Be sure to check out version 2, with iOS support (iPhone/iPad)!
Here’s my stupid trick of the day: a Markdown teleprompter called PromptDown (I see what you did there…). The idea was to create a teleprompter for recording screencast voiceovers that was cheap, fast and worked on plain text. I wanted to provide a non-WYSIWYG form field for typing or…
Aug 04
2010
When designing for the web, placeholder images can come in handy during initial layout, and even during wireframing, if you happen to wireframe in markup. I’ve been using a TextExpander snippet to generate instant placeholder images at any size (almost) and with appropriate titles using Placehold.it. It’s a really handy snippet to have in your web design toolkit.
