Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
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Introducing Pixels From The Edge Version 3.0
I’m proud to say my blog finally grew up! It’s gone from an ugly duckling to a swan (or was it a swan the whole time? I forget how that story goes).
Version 1.0…
This humble blog started one random February afternoon just over two years ago after I’d spent a great deal of time digging up the solution for what I believed to be a common problem. When I finally figured out the answer I felt that it was so simple and so important that I wanted to do the next developers that came along a favor and leave -
got jackson?
Jacksons birthday’s coming up so I’ve been kicking around a few ideas for his party invite. It’s pretty lame I guess but it was cool how I did it all just with Firebug. Switched around some CSS values and updated some text on the page. Kinda reminds me of back in the day playing around with XSS and HTML injections – we’d mainly do it to test for security vulnerabilities, but sometimes we’d have some fun switching out the images and stuff. I’ve really only used Firebug in this way to tweak stuff I’m working on, but it was pretty…
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I invented the wheel
I didn’t do it on my own, a couple of people came and went, but essentially it was just a core team of two – Dug and myself, and of course a creative director who had the vision to believe in us and just let us go crazy with it. And it wasn’t a wheel we invented it was a website. Its form and function was so well crafted the next agency that came along couldn’t help but precisely replicate it.
And that’s okay. Some creatives in the industry find it shocking, it’s the buzz of the city right now,… -
Pop Your Facebook Profile Picture
I came across a cool article the other day which had some examples on how to go a little crazy with your Facebook profile picture, so I can’t take full credit for this. In fact I might not be able to take any credit at all, I just got done reading the article when my good friend (and awesome photographer) Doug… was walking by, he had his full set of equipment with him that day and the next thing I knew I was hanging from the drywall down the hall with a flash on either side of me, I’m just
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The Definitive Modal Layer
For the last couple of years we’ve been using modal layers where it made sense, basically most places where we would’ve used pop-ups in the old days, i.e. modal layer is to Web 2.0 what the pop-up was previously. But all the while I never felt like I was able able to lock down any solid way of doing this. Every time the issue came up I’d re-visit the functionality, never overjoyed with my latest implementation, so I never came up with a final solution. Depending on the website I was working with and the libraries they were already using…
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Newspaper Layouts on the Web – CSS3 Columns
I was working on something where I wanted to explore the idea of multi-column layouts, newspaper style if you will. For years people have tried to do this in websites with not much luck – lots of messy JavaScript yielding unpredictable results. But as with most things like this I’ve been trying to do lately I figured there might be a solution in CSS3, and a quick search showed me there was. Just like when I was looking into overriding the default text selection color it took just a few lines of code to see the power of the multi-column …
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Overriding The Default Text Selection Color With CSS3
Finally getting round to testing out some CCS3 techniques I’ve been reading about and drooling over for the past year. Noticed a site I swung by thats text selection color wasn’t the browser default so I looked it up and found out how to change the background and font colors. It’s nothing new, people have been doing it for a while, just this is the first chance I’ve had to start playing.
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Blog Relaunch
So I finally managed to find the time to relaunch this blog. When I first started the blog it was somewhat of an experiment so I didn’t spend much effort on its design, but unlike other failed blogs I’d started over the years I’ve really been enjoying writing these posts and I think this time around it’s got some staying power. This relaunch is really intertwined with my online rebrand I’ve been talking about… lately, this blog plays a big part in my online image and it was important that I spend the time to focus on fixing its issues.
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De-Branding Myself
So here I am, I’m 32 years old and I’ve been on the web forever, shit before the web even really existed I was gophering German university FTP servers for pictures of Claudia Schiffer. And what do I have to show for myself now, for all my years of online service? Who the hell am I online? londonstreetlife? Really??? Now that I can finally see it for what it is, it really is all kinds of lame. A buddy of mine got an iPhone last year and my phone broke so he lent me his old phone, he was all…