Articles
Five Questions with Jeff Starr
I first knew of Jeff through his website Perishable Press, which has long been a fantastic web design resource blog focusing on CSS, WordPress, and a lot of hard-to-find-elsewhere .htaccess stuff along with a good amount of Jeff’s personality …
Illustrators I Like
If there is one (non-superpower) skill I wish I could acquire without having to spend thousands of hours practicing, it’s illustration. I took a bunch of drawing in college but I was never that great and I’ve let myself go …
jQuery Duplicate Plugin
$.fn.duplicate = function(count, cloneEvents) {
var tmp = [];
for ( var i = 0; i < count; i++ ) {
$.merge( tmp, this.clone( cloneEvents ).get() );
}
return this.pushStack( tmp );
};
The .clone() function of jQuery will duplicate …
New Poll: Action Verb Clarity
Let’s say you were writing some text-only documentation describing how to do something on a website. The idea was that you came to a point where someone was presented with a list of users and their job was to select …
Poll Results: How Many Websites Do You Launch Per Year?
- 20+ (14%)
- 10-20 (12%)
- 5-10 (24%)
- 2-4 (31%)
- 1 (13%)
- 0 (6%)
I’m probably in the 2-4 camp myself, which is the winning choice. I don’t freelance, but I do do sites for family and friends once in a while. …
#88: Intro to Compass/Sass
Ask a bunch of designers what they wish CSS could do that it can’t now, and you’ll get a big list that reads much like the list of features for the Compass/Sass framework. If you are like me, you don’t …
On Boagworld
In more podcast news, I got to be on Boagworld as well! I was interviewed by Paul Boag himself in the final interview ever on Boagworld. Bittersweet, isn’t it? We talk about CSS-Tricks, CSS3, Flash, and you know, just some …
On WordPress Podcast
I got to be on the WordPress Podcast with Joost de Valk yesterday. It’s already out and you go to the blog post (with player and show notes), or snag it from iTunes.
We had fun talking about Digging …
CSS for Blockin’ Stuff
I am not a big proponent of ad blockers. Besides than the fact that this site has ads on it, I generally just don’t mind it. I am a big proponent of you doing whatever you want to on your…
Feature Table Design
I ran into the feature table design from Shopify over on Pattern Tap and I was like DAMN SHOPIFY, that is one sexy table. I was inspired to try and replicate it. First in Photoshop, then in HTML/CSS. Recreating cool …