In this screencast we pop over to The Forums to answer as many questions as we can. The point is just to have a little fun and show you how easy it is to contribute to the community. Become a good member there, and next time you are stuck your chances of getting help skyrocket!
You don’t have to be a super genius at everything. I’m certainly not and I prove it in this screencast by not having a good answer for a number of questions. Also: this serves as good evidence of “the better the question the better the answer.”
Why does your background change from green to blue at about
29:00? Is that some super-hip mac-app that changes the color like every hour?Totally.
max, you can use the default system preference pane ‘Desktop & Screen Saver’ to do the same.
This is a wonderful idea. I don’t know if you know it (i’m sure you must) but you are an inspiration to the likes of me who is trying to forge a career in design and/or development. You really are one of the best, IMO. Seeing you work live is an awesome tutorial.
Something I’ve been wondering recently is if it’s o.k to wrap a div within an anchor tag, whether or not to use span instead. I find myself googling for an answer.
And if that’s you playing banjo at the start of your vids and podcasts, kudos!
Hi Soren,
In the spirit on this screencast I thought I’d post a reply.
A div within an anchor isn’t considered semantic. In the pen Chris made, the red div would be replaced with an image in a real-world example which would fix it. To make it semantic, a span would’ve worked too (if set to block/inline-block). Alternatively, you could use
:beforeor:afteron the link.Sure it is. It’s perfectly cool in HTML5.
Oh, so it is! I must have missed that when I was catching up on HTML5 changes, my mistake. I was thinking of the XHTML/HTML4 where it wasn’t valid.
Sorry about that.
I like the idea of this becoming a series. I’m also in line behind soren with regarding you, and others like you who share their knowledge, as an inspiration to up-and-comers. Thanks!
In itunes this video is 404
If your check the rss feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CSS-Tricks-Screencasts
for this post the video file says “Media files VideoCast-116.mov (VLC media file (.mpg), 0 bytes)”
I think we have a problem Chris….
Thanks! Found the problem, should be fixed and propagating. Gonna bury since temporary issue.
Hey Chris. What is the cloud app that you dragged the file to and gave you the URL?
Literally!
http://getcloudapp.com/
Thanks a lot for that, very inspirational. I am a long time follower of your page and screencasts, mostly as a weekend web enthusiast , but will now also try to contribute some to the forums here :-)
Yes, more screen cast’s like this one please!
Chris, loved this webcast. Not only did it address some issues and gave some fresh perspective into this, but I also picked up a few apps (such as Skitch and Cloud App) that I can see the benefit of using on my own system.
When you mentioned the previous version of Skitch, I’m assuming you meant 1.0 (from the Skitch website), but I was wondering why you preferred this version. It looks like the reviews for the new version are horrible, but having never been a user, I’m not sure what the issues are.
Amazing video! (all the videos are awesome). I am really glad to hear Chris talk about answering and asking questions. I will definitely try harder to answer some stuff.
Chris, great webcast – thanks for sharing. Picked up some real gems in there :)
Well, about the Jquery book, Jon Duckett (who wrote this masterpiece on HTML and CSS is also making a version for Javascript and Jquery, although it’s coming out on May 28th. I can’t wait :)
On point as always, Chris! Thank you!