In this interview I speak with Dan Rubin about design and ask if a web designer should code. Dan is the owner of Webgraphinc and co-author of Web Standard Creativity, Pro CSS Techniques and Cascading Style Sheets.
I hope you enjoy this interview as Dan talks about his thoughts on web design and the community at large. Dan is an excellent designer and I am honored to have the opportunity to share this interview with you today.
Read More →In this interview I speak with Rogie King about design and the process of getting for start to finish. Along the way we take a detour and juggle the ideas behind being genuine and enthusiastic. Rogie is the brain behind Komodo Media and a skilled designer in the web community.
In this episode I take a step back and let technology be technology. I hope you enjoy our conversation and gain as much as I have from it. Here is a big thanks to Rogie. Enjoy everyone!
Read More →Recently I found out about a really nice CSS sprite tool on CSS Tricks. The tool is called Sprite Cow and I cant wait to use it. I have tried the demo and I can’t think of a better way to generate the CSS for complicated sprites.
Read More →Over two years ago I wrote this tweet: “Still amazed by how many GOOD websites and apps don’t specify a default background color or text color.” Tragically the situation has remained virtually unchanged to this day.
Read More →Trying to find that one thing you need to know looking in the CSS Documentation no further than InstaCSS. This neat tool will help you instantly locate what you are looking for. I just started using it and I only wish I found it sooner.
Read More →In this interview I wanted to speak with Chris Coyier about unicorns and rainbows. However, he convinced me that CSS was a much better topic. Chris is the coauthor of “Digging into WordPress” and creator of CSS Tricks. Chris is a world known CSS expert and HTML guru. He also works at Wufoo making web forms fun, easy and modern.
I hope you enjoy this interview and learn a few things in the process. I think Chris is one of the funnest people to meet and talk to so I know you will love this interview. I also would like to thank Chris for taking the time to do this interview and share his thought with us today.
Read More →This week the new Think Vitamin Membership site launched as Treehouse. On the site you can now earn badges, discover hidden Easter eggs and have fun.
If you don’t know what Treehouse is I would give it a look. They teach web design, web development and iOS better than anyone I know. Signing up is super easy and cheap for what you get. Heck, there is a lot of learning you can do in just one month if you are tight on the dough.
Read More →On the topic of desktop browsers never use CSS class names or ID’s that smell bad to ad blockers in your HTML. The Firefox Ad Blocker is notorious for braking sites. This means names like: Ad or ads, Campaign, Sponsors, Partners, Endorsement, Ect.
Read More →@font-face font optimization has been to my mind recently. Due to the CSS Off that Unmatched Style is hosting. Now you may be wondering what I mean by font optimizing for @font-face. In this I mean the reduction of the font file size. For example.
Lets say You have three fonts you need to import into a website. This is a lot of fonts. Normally you import one for headlines and in rare cases one for body text. But, we have three none-the-less.
Read More →Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites. It detects what features your browser supports instead of trying to tell you what browser version you have.
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