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Reducing Authoring Time with Textpattern Bookmarklets
Brilliant bookmarklet for all you Textpatterners out there. It’s dead easy to create and, in fact, this post was created using the bookmarklet. I urge you to check it out.
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My framed Andrew Rae Illustration
As I mentioned earlier I bought a marvellous illustration from the Tate Modern and have just had it framed and hung. Check it.
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52 Weeks of UX
“A discourse on the process of designing for real people” This looks good, the first article is live and I recommend you all subscribe to the site.
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Typeface Designers Wrestle With the World of Pixels
Alice Rawsthorn writes an interesting piece for the New York Times about Hoefler and Frere-Jones’ upcoming release of Vitesse,their 29th release, and how different typefaces are affected on screen and...
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You start with a set of pictures – if you authenticate, it’ll use 20 of your last 100 favorites – otherwise it’ll start with somebody’s favorites. Click any picture to load more. Don’t like what that...
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ɹǝpuɐz.com or How to Buy an International Domain Name
I just bought this domain for myself, it currently points to this blog and I love the geekiness of it but my wife thinks otherwise! If you want to get your own upside-down or otherwise (✿.com /...
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David Desandro's Portfolio - An exercise in brilliance
Having not frequented David’s site for a while I was stunned when I had a look at his new (I’m not sure how new) portfolio page. I think it’s how all portfolio page should be done from now on. There’s...
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jQuery vGrid layout plugin
This a variation on Desandro’s Masonry plugin but has added effects and reordering when the the browser is resized. I’ll definitely be using this at some point. Not sure if there’s any infinite scroll...
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My Textpattern Admin Themes
As some may know, recently I designed a couple of new Textpattern admin themes called Prometheus and Stung. They are essentially the same theme with different colour-schemes. The aim for these themes...
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jQuery Quicksand plugin
Brilliant plugin for reordering and filtering items, I urge you to try it.
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11 CSS3 Code Generators to make CSS3 development a breeze
CSS3 is awesome, but the new syntax is sometimes hard to get your head around. Thankfully though, a few kind souls have created some very useful tools to generate the code for you. CSS3, Please! The...
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BAFTA Avatar Poster 2010
Credit: Tavis Coburn for Dutch Uncle See more of these poster over at Dutch Uncle’s website
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Yes, add subpixel-hinting to your Photoshop text layers
It can be done with Thomas Maier’s Photoshop action
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PIXELS - A motion graphics masterpiece by Patrick Jean
New York is invaded by 8-bit creatures
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Pure CSS Icons
Having marvelled at David Desandro’s Opera Logo made entirely in HTML and CSS, I wanted to try a similar experiment for myself. So with a large scoop of border-radius I set about trying to create...
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Shout out to the Scoundrels!
The website for the Scoundrels has just been completed (by me) and the band have been busy putting the finishing touches on their debut album. Two are on their Soundcloud page and I urge you to check...
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CSS3 Watch
CSS3 Watch is a new blog I setup, the other day, with the aim of collecting experiments, creative techniques and interesting examples of CSS3. Powered by Tumblr, the site grabs my special link feed...
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The Origins of the Tag
The man (Louis J Montulli II) widely credited for coming up with the most hated of all HTML tags, the blink tag, reflects on his involvement in its creation. Via the Web Standardistas
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HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome
Awesome site by Paul Irish & Divya Manian that provides all the base files needed to begin any web project – check it!
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Pure CSS Icons: Make The Madness Stop
Faruk Ateş takes a dislike to mine & seemingly everyone else’s experiments with CSS3… Not cool Mister Ateş
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Revised Font Stack | A Way Back
Brilliant read about CSS font-stacks showing you what the big players use & that you don’t necessarily need @font-face or Typekit to have great fonts on your site. Check it.
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The 3 different meanings for Facebook's Like Button
This post is here as reference, I am not the original author but I thought it would be good to publish this information for others to use because I spent a whole day trying to figure the darn thing...
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I am a designer, not a...
Just saw this on Ffffound & thought it appropriate to post. It is so true!
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The iPod Nano Watch
Seeing as all my watches have run out of battery, I think it’s high-time I bought a new one – enter the iPod Nano Watch. It’s just so freaking cool! Via Svpply
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Prefix your WebKit Animation Names
A useful tip from @numerosign if you’re creating CSS animations. You should also checkout his iPad app called CSS3Machine – I’ll let you work out what it does ;-)
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Coda Clip Library for HTML5
Like most web developers I maintain a personal collection of code snippets & recently have been amassing a folder full of snippets related specifically to HTML5 (you won’t see any CSS3 in here..)...
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Coda Blackboard Seestyles port
[UPDATE – 22 Jan 2011] Added jQuery, XML & Actionscript Seestyles. All other slightly improved too. Following on the Coda theme, I thought I’d share my Seestyle setup, which is basically the...
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Prometheus & Stung Textpattern Admin Updated for TXP v4.3
Just a note to say that my admin themes have been updated for the latest version of Textpattern version 4.3. Download them at the Textgarden Prometheus Theme v0.9 download Stung Theme v0.9 download
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CSS3 Multi-column spanning
The CSS Multi-column Layout Module has a rather interesting property called ‘column-span’ which means that certain elements can be spanned across more than one column – an example might be an image in...
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Quick & dirty Cloze content test with the Lettering.js jQuery plugin
I recently read the A List Apart article, Testing Content by Angela Colter I thought about how to easily implement a Cloze test without too much hassle. It turns out that a Cloze test can be done on...
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Cloze test creator
My beautiful wife, Alice, uses a version of a Cloze test for when she teaches. She creates these tests using Word & a lot of copying & pasting. When she saw my Quick & Dirty Cloze test...
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Site Launch: Soho Fixed
Soho Fixed (http://sohofixed.com), the brainchild of my mate, Jolyon, has just been launched. The site showcases fixie bikes built from new & unique reconditioned parts. A few bikes are built each...
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Boost HTML & CSS Boilerplate framework
I’m afraid I have added to the abundance of other HTML & CSS boilerplates or frameworks, I created BOOST a framework that takes the best techniques & snippets of what I find useful & puts...
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How to launch Mac apps n minutes after login/boot
Having tweeted the above earlier today, I came across a very simple way to bring my need into reality. Google’s best result was this:...
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Customise Sublime Text 2
[UPDATE 15 Dec 2011] Added some more plugins to the list. [UPDATE 17 Dec 2011] Added my key binding settings & ‘Textmate-style’ comment banner keyboard shortcut snippet Over the past few weeks I...
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A responsive toolkit - a call to arms
Building a responsive site is hard sometimes, particularly when you want to have a carousel on your page but the plugin you normally use does not have the ability to resize or recalculate when you...
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The Choreographic Grid - a CSS grid for content interdigitation
After having read Trent Walton’s article on Content Choreography again & working on a number of responsive sites, I felt that the current group of CSS grids was lacking in this department – so I...
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Speedy Sublime Text setup
A few weeks ago I created a Github repo to aide people in setting up Sublime Text more quickly. It lists the essential plugins that ‘most’ users will need & a few others for the programmers among...
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On staying current
At TMW, I always ask interviewees how they keep up-to-date with the latest in front-end web goings-on. The answers I receive are varied but there’s always a few recurring themes: Twitter and blogs –...
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Fix Chrome caching of Source Maps
Over the past few days I have (finally) started tinkering with Grunt and one feature, Source Maps, that I have been using on a recent project was not quite working for me. I had set up my Uglify task...
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Site launch: mrmartineau.co.uk - my social home page
Just launched my own version of a social home page/business card site. Check it out at mrmartineau.co.uk and grab the code at Github On a technical note, I used the brilliant Entypo icon font but also...
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How to fix hidden characters in password inputs in old Internet Explorer....
I came across an interesting bug recently where, in Internet Explorer (versions 6-8), the dot characters for an input[type="password"] were not showing up. I could see the cursor moving as if text was...
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