Happy Fourth!

Today is America’s birthday and also (more importantly) the birthday of CSS-Tricks, which turns 3 today. If it was a human being, that means it would be starting to string together sentences of five words or more, socializing well with …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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#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 …

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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 …

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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

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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 …

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