A while back, I stumbled across a very nice set of CSS3 animations by Dan Eden which (if you haven’t already clicked the link and looked for yourself) are plug and play. All you do is add a class to the element you want to animate and it… well… animates. This is great! Dan recommends that… Read more →
Let me start by saying that I am not a developer, I am a designer who dabbles in jQuery and as such my code will probably not be the cleanest or most efficient but it gets the job done. I will also assume you have some basic knowledge of jQuery. View the demo Recently I… Read more →
Yesterday at work I stumbled upon an idea that I haven’t seen before when dealing with pure CSS drop-down menus. The general premise is to use an unordered list within an unordered list activated on hover of the parent li. This is pretty standard (but won’t work in IE6 due to hovers only being available… Read more →
For years web designers have had to deal with compatibility issues across multiple browsers and for just as many years have had to accept content being displayed in slightly different ways. This is unlikely to change soon but the differences are becoming fewer and fewer. To make the most of this you need to choose… Read more →
This post is about using TimThumb to create an on-the-fly, greyscale image thumbnail of the first image in a post and use jQuery to fade in a colour version on top creating a nice effect. Let me also say that this is not in-depth and is not for beginners as I’m not going to walk… Read more →
Recently there has been a lot of press about new standards coming in across all aspects of the web. HTML5 and CSS3 offering us many new features and some not-so new ones but making them standards to which everone can adhere to (I’m taking to you Microsoft).This coupled with the recent release of Safari 4… Read more →
Recently I have been taking a course provided by the W3C on mobile best practices designed to give the participant the best ways in which to design for mobile. Topics covered are things such as graceful enhancement and graceful failure, designing specifically to allow access on various mobile browsers and adding enhancements to the site… Read more →
“Yeah I’m a web designer” That response to a question about your chosen career path used to lead people to think that you live in your parent’s basement, wore square glasses taped together, wore your trousers too high, were bad with girls and were generally a massive nerd. Oh how times have changed (for some)…. Read more →
I have been looking at lot recently at portfolio designs and ‘creative’ websites and wondered whether I should be trying to compete with them. Compilations such as ’30 Fresh and Inspirational Portfolios With A Twist’ from Smashing Magazine are fantastic as portfolio pieces and happen to be portfolios which seems to be a perfect combination…. Read more →
With New Designers coming up rapidly there has been much fretting about who is doing what and who is designing what. With myself and a few others being on an internship at Samsung it has proved hard to keep things consistent. After much arguing through many emails I have decided to defer my vote to… Read more →