For the past week or so I’ve been learning OAuth to use as the login functionality and authorization for a personal app I’m making (shh, it’s a secret.). I’ve played with OAuth a little in the past while tinkering with another app to connect to Foamee via Twitter, but that was relatively easy as the library I used already did most of what I wanted. This time around it was much harder. Maybe it was difficult because I...
Today I spent a while struggling to get a CSS drop down menu to work on the iPhone. The short of it is that you need to either explicitly set display: none; on the secondary list and change it to block or any visible setting on :hover or, I stumbled on this later, you need to specify a width on the drop down unordered list (and not it’s list item children). If you’re curious for more, keep reading.
I recently had...
For the past day and a half I have been glued to my computer screen watching streaming news coverage of the tragic earthquake that devastated Christchurch, New Zealand. I want to help, but I’m living in America. Then I had an idea that maybe I could help people in the web industry so they could help themselves and others there on the ground. This is a letter to Christchurch web designers.
Dear Web Designers & Developers in Christchurch,
The first thing that...
For the past several weeks, I’ve been working on an iPad project that makes copious use of buttons for navigation. These buttons consist of text, an icon, and a gradient. As my only browser is the iPad’s flavor of Safari, I can use a lot more fun CSS3. I decided to use multiple background images to display the gradient and icons, but have run into some issues that I would like some help with when it comes to the hover...
In 2010 I didn’t live in, or visit, New Zealand. Since my first trip in 2002, I have been there for a least part of the year five out of the last eight years. However, I did do a bit of traveling around to different places. And by those numbers, this was 2010:
This question is too long to ask on Twitter, so I’ll ask here.
I’m having a problem with CSS3’s new Flexible Box Layout Module (or Flexbox so it isn’t a mouthful). For the most part, I’ve figured out how to use this new layout technique and am loving it. However, I’m running into an issue when I try to specify the children of the box using percentages. Is this even possible? I’ve stripped down my code to the basics. If you...
A few weeks ago as I was browsing Dribbble I came across this shot (and the following) by Louie Mantia. It’s a pretty cool redesign of the classic Monopoly board game. It takes takes some elements of the original look and streamlines the space. In the comments, Meg Frisch playfully asked who was going to recreate the shot using HTML5. “Hey, that sounds like fun! I should do that.”...
Dribbble just announced that they’ve sent out a new batch of invites for current users to draft new people. I didn’t get any, but it reminded me that I still have an invite to give away. If you want it, here’s how you can be drafted!
In light of the recent multi-hour Facebook downtime, I’m sure a large portion of the working world actually got work done. I thought I’d write something to keep that up.
The studio doors are currently closed through July as I am thoroughly booked, though not on your traditional web design projects.
This summer I will be taking two months to travel and do some non-business related work.
First, for the month of June I will be in Mongolia where my brother’s non-profit Edurelief is located. In addition to taking time to realign the website (primarily content and site architecture updates) I will be helping him, with others, as he begins building...