January 14th, 2008
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Cross-Site XMLHttpRequest
Mozilla talks about FF3's new AJAX capabilities. Quite an interesting read. -
Flight Artcast
Anton Peck's new year's resolution is in full swing with this brand new artcast, in which he performs another Speed Paint session. Quite cool. -
MacHeist Bundle
MacHeist's Bundle is available for a little under 10 days now. Snapz Pro X, CSS Edit, TaskPaper, and more for just $49... Or just wait a couple more days for Pixelmator to be unlocked? -
Messing Up the Interface
A humorous and unfortunately realistic look at how the design process falls apart through it's lifecycle -
Sunday Type: Potato Type
What's better than good typography? Edible good typography! Who the hell comes up with this stuff?
November 28th, 2007
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Closing this Chapter on CSS Frameworks
An excellent response to Croft's query by Johnathan Christopher. I'm one of those he mentions in the article that can't believe this debate has gone on this long. Such is life. -
Creating Seamless Patterns in Illustrator
Being that Illustrator is not my strongsuit, I love a good tutorial on the subject, ESPECIALLY one by Veerle. She knows her stuff, and explains it in plain english, which is awesome, considering it's not her first language. -
What’s Not to Love About Instant Cake Mixes?
Andy Clarke riffs on Jeff Croft's CSS framework query with this satirical look at cake-baking. Croft's response: "Who knows if he was being light-hearted or mean-spirited, but I found it freaking hilarious." -
Harry Potter and the Order of Typography
An excellent slideshow of typographic examples found in the latest Potter film. Thank you Hicksy, that was delightful. -
What’s not to love about CSS frameworks?
Yet another post on CSS frameworks by master Croft. Mostly reiterating his previous articles on the subject, but with an open-ended question: What do you dislike about CSS frameworks? -
BlueprintCSS: Tools of the trade
Bjorkoy hits us with a list of plugins and tools to be used with Blueprint CSS -
Babble and Fish
Dave Shea gives us some tips for writing email internationally, and how to deal with language barriers in the babelfish era.
November 15th, 2007
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Using the Vanishing Point Filter
Never got the hang on Photoshop's Vanishing Point Filter? Take a look at this tutorial. Simply put, and quite useful. -
Protect Your WordPress WP-Config So You Don’t Get Hacked
DevLounge is a good source for WordPress tips and tricks. This article shows you how to protect your WP-powered blog from a few simple weaknesses. -
The Alphabet, But Not As We Know It
A compilation of some pretty cool alphabet presentations, in buildings, nature, etc.
November 14th, 2007
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Being Kind to Widows and Orphans. Typogrify Plugin
ILT brings us a little review of a WordPress plugin that fixes common typographical errors and problems for you. Quite interesting stuff. -
Mint 2.14
Master Inman has produced an update to Mint, with a new API call for Pepper developers, and a fix to the charset. -
Blueprint CSS Cheat Sheet
Christian Montoya posts a cheat sheet for classes used in Blueprint CSS.
November 8th, 2007
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IE "Click to Activate" to be Deactivated
Yes, finally, Microsoft has ended the ridiculous legal battle and Internet Explorer will once again be able to display plugins and objects without that silly "Click to Activate" message. -
Design Meltdown
You've probably seen this site, but it deserves a closer look. I have been frequenting it a lot lately, and it's really quite impressive. Half design blog, half CSS gallery, it provides examples of design themes and trends, categorized into easy-to-find chunks. -
WordPress Caching Overview
The fine folks at DevLounge want to school you on caching with the almighty WordPress platform. Pretty good explanation. Should be quite useful if you ever hope to grace the front page of Digg -
Ma.gnolia Developer Center
My good friends at Ma.gnolia just launched a new section of the site. Very experimental at the moment, but I can't wait to see what kind of goodness come from it. -
Screen Readers Sometimes Ignore display:none
Just when you thought you understood this whole accessibility thing. Roger points out that a screen readers are even more picky that previously thought. However, there is a simple and effective workaround that shouldn't cause any headaches. -
Veerle Opens Up the Duoh! Trashcan
I love stuff like this. Veerle recently posted some pictures of designs for her company's website that just weren't quite right. Fun to look at someone else's design process.
