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Vivid and inviting colors, blended with carefully crafted designs. Exciting and visually appealing illustrations, with those little extras that makes you smile.
Scrapped Plans
Posted on July, 23 2008 at 06 PM
Secret Friend Society by DraStudio on Zooomr
In light of the recent Dra Studio re-design, I thought it might be fun to share some of my ruminations and recent thoughts about back-end content management systems and such that I saw as possible solutions for both the this site and the Illustrative. site, but for some reason or another, abandoned. I also wanted to share some of the more influential sites that I found inspiring me into making the latest revisions to the Studio. So if code is your thing and acronyms like XSLT don’t scare you, read on!
For everyone else, I humbly offer you a site that always bring a big smile to my heart; The Secret Friend Society. There isn’t a bad day I have had that a few minutes with Jellaby hasn’t cured. ;) Enjoy!
Open in Textmate
Posted on June, 12 2008 at 02 PM
Had a really fun lunch meeting with one of the WDD (Web Design & Development and) degree course directors yesterday. It is so enjoyable being able to sit around and talk about web standards, markup and CSS syntax. Yes, Courtney, that is really nerdy … but still, so much fun.
For all of you coding-kids, Chris dropped a little script on me that I am finding really handy. MacroMates, the guys behind Textmate (pretty much the best code editor ever), put out a Finder toolbar script called “Open in Textmate”. It does exactly what you would think … make it easier to open files and folders right into Textmate. Super helpful, since I don’t have TM set as my default editor for HTML and CSS files.
Check out the full post, as well as this other that talks about customizing the icon for the script.
Hiding via CSS
Posted on May, 16 2008 at 08 PM
I am in the middle of some research for my Graphic Web Design course and I am in search of an article I thought I had read a while ago.
If I am remembering correctly, it outlined the pros and cons of using the two typical methods of hiding content using CSS styles.
Option #1:
selector { display:none; }
Option #2:
selector { text-indent: -9999px; }
The second is a little trick I first saw Zeldman use, but I know the article I am thinking of talked about how it can cause problems when using a right-aligned layout (which I have experienced first-hand), but I can’t seem to find it again.
Anyone else know how to use Google search better than me? ;)