Category Archives: Design

Al things related to the design world. Everything from color to columns.

Let Them Die

This month’s edition of A List Apart covers how to manage multiple browser vendors and their varying support for html5 and css3 1. We’re all aware of the different uses of border-radius in both FireFox and Webkit. And being able … Continue reading

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Introducing thevariants.com

The Variants is a new web series sitcom about the crew of a local comic shop. So far, four promos have been produced and released in time for SDCC 2009 and Episode one is scheduled for release. Each episode (or … Continue reading

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Introducing scribbr.com

Scribbr is a tiny web app for drawing and posting to twitter. With jQuery, the user can control the color, size, opacity of the cursor to draw on the canvas element 320 x 320 in size. Last summer, I had … Continue reading

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Zeus Comics redesign

If for no other reason than finally consolidating the past five years of css style changes into some semblance of organization, this redesign was a long time coming. Zeus Comics and Collectibles is an award-winning comic book retail store in … Continue reading

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YouTube’s H.264 turnaround time is the new dial up

Just how long does it take for a YouTube video to become available on the YouTube iPhone app? Seriously, if YouTube accepts .wmv, .avi, .mkv, .mov, .mpeg, .mp4, .flv, .ogg, 3gp and outputs to multiple .flv, mp4, 3gp… OMG, why … Continue reading

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Tackling Safari’s slow gif “feature” with jQuery

Safari’s WebKit has a funny behavior of displaying animated gif files at a lower frame rate than Firefox. From what I can tell, WebKit (including Google Chrome) caps the animated gif frame rates at 10fps. While it may be faster … Continue reading

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jQuery Triptych Slideshow

My previous how-to showed a new way to look at the slider function featured at the Apple.com/mac site. This one goes to Apple once again and their bucket ads shown in the iTunes Music Store (screen shot). The buckets are … Continue reading

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A better jQuery slider

If you haven’t seen Apple’s product slider in action, you must check it out. It’s a horizontal gallery of their products with horizontal slider controlled with javascript. I believe they are using the scriptaculous motion for this, but there should … Continue reading

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My Peeps on Twitter

Somehow I’ve ended up following too many people on Twitter. Not that I don’t want to read each and every person’s tweet, but sometimes, I really don’t care and just want to follow a select few. LiveJournal has a filter … Continue reading

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Adobe Illustrator Eraser on Wacom strokes

Scott, here’s how to save your brush strokes in Illustrator CS3 and still be able to edit them!

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