I have heard more people talking about deactivating their facebook accounts this year than any other time before. This may be due to people having “their fill” of facebook or they may be tired of the constant human interaction and keeping up appearances. Since mid 2011 you can see a huge jump in [...]

I recently stumbled upon the Tanzaku theme for wordpress created by the Triple Ships web design company. Very little is know about Triple Ships and what copy available online is mostly fluff written to balance out the lovely thumbnail posts of their work. Out of their small web portfolio online you see [...]

The new google music store and artist hub was unwrapped the other day. I’m pretty excited for any challenger to the itunes store. It’s not that I don’t like the itunes store or appreciate what Apple did.. I mean it’s really amazing what they’ve accomplished. I personally hate how locked down and [...]

Finding things to place on a contact page can sometimes be really difficult. Normally you place an address, phone number and email on your contact page. With little content for the page, but a big purpose of delivering customers to your physical location. I would also recommend adding a nifty [...]

It’s important to educate clients on the basics of how web pages are viewed, rendered and displayed on multiple platforms. Explain the differences in browsers and screen resolutions on their machine and yours. Talk about the variation in 8 and 16bit colors. Walk them threw how you are saving the [...]

oday I built a new set of CSS for handling text shadow. The Div backgrounds are created using a gradient background. Copy text (what the user needs to read) is normally black, gray or white. The background I am using is a darker pale pink/red. I used white for my text copy color and I switch the text’s color from white to gray by changing the controlling the color opacity using RGB.

I’m always in need of a css3 button class. I write them on the fly or I search for them on google, but I never save them. Here is a CSS3 button class using text shadow, drop shadow and gradient. Copy & Paste Code .bnt { display: inline-block; zoom: 1; [...]

Do you love halloween like I do? Do you like ghost stories at night before bed like me? Well I would highly recomend listening to Anything Ghost Podcast. Anything ghost is a monthly podcast by Lex Wahl. Lex collects stories from listeners and reads them over music he’s composed (which [...]

I often search for the same code snippets over and over. It make things easier on my self and to show you some of the stuff I keep forgetting, I am going to post the code here. The piece of code below is the box-shadow property. It allows you to [...]

With the rise of mobile platforms and ever increasing screen resolutions we as designers can not rely on strict layouts anymore. The web has transformed in the couple years from a single monitor delivering content to multiple screens with varying form factors and interactions. The iphone, ipad, and even the [...]