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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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CCS Taubman Center Microsite
We just recently launched a microsite for the College of Creative Studies to introduce their new Taubman Center. Renamed from the old historic Argonaut building… and renovated in 2009 this new addition to the college campus not only provides an amazing new facility for the students, but also offers great promise to extend the renaissance that Detroit is currently undergoing.
The site is pretty bare as of now, though the gallery documenting the construction process over the past year is pretty interesting, this is just a phase one and we will be adding videos and other more interesting content -
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…
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I Am Creative
I’ve only really come to terms with this fact over the past year. For the longest time I was confused about the issue and during my teen years had built up a stigma around the whole idea of me not being creative. See I went to school with some really awesome creative talent, guys that went on to graduate with honors from schools like the Royal College of Arts, and are now illustrators for respected newspapers and magazines, top architects in their field, and producers of music videos for some of the worlds top recording artists. And back then in…
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Automatically Rotating Homepage Takeovers
Something going on at Pandora… that I came across today really struck me. They’re automatically rotating homepage takeovers as you interact with the site. It makes sense really, it’s a radio station so you load it up, minimize the browser and forget about and the songs play on and on, and therefore there’s no point in showing ads. So when they know you’re looking at the page, on interaction, is when they start showing ads (and try and get some revenue for the amazing service they offer for free).
Just in case you are not familiar with the term ‘homepage