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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
I decided to say goodbye to Google today. They've got great search results for sure, but they're the man and they've got way too much information about me. I'm going to stick with my love for the little guys and the locals. So what am I going to search the ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
This is an interesting way to add support for the CSS first-child psuedo class in IE 6:
#element {
behavior:expression(this.firstChild.style.padding = "5px");
}
Of course it has its drawbacks, most notably is its use of Javascript via Microsoft's proprietary expression property. Nonetheless, if you stick it in your IE hacks CSS file you'll have ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
I love Blueprint CSS. But one of the things that bothers me about it is the non-semantic usage of classes. You should never have to put column or span-12 in your HTML because classes like that describe presentational aspects of a site, not structural.
I’ve described the process that I use ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
It seems there’s a growing discontent with the state of graphic design these days. The prevelance of cliched designs and formulaic methodologies are getting old.I’ve got one theory: money. It takes less effort to get a product out there with a "tried and true" (translated old and overused) design than ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
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PSDTuts - Photoshop Tutorials and Links - 9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design
9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design, Spoonfed Photoshop Tutorials. This is a pretty good write up. One that would be worth going over each point analyzing a design.
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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
As CSS frameworks gain popularity there will likely be more and more tools on the web which can help in creating base style sheets and HTML templates suited for them. But for the time being weâre left with mostly unusable Javascript concepts that donât do more than suggest measurements for ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Here's a LINK to the Face!
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Monsters of the Programming World
Some of the difficulties we experience in any project really, but specifically geared toward programmers.
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Typographic Contrast and Flow
I love's myself some pretty text. I hope this helps to make a difference in web typography.
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Generate a Color Palette from an Image | ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Okay, Pixelfish pointed out this funny Wikipedia meme that's going around. Go to the Wikipedia homepage and hit the random article link 12 times. The first one is your band name, the second one is the album name, and the last 10 are the tracks. I thought it was kinda ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
<p.Each week Atomic Euphonic creates a song idea, or Particle. Use it how you wish, ignore the crying babies, and don't forget to mention me if you use it.
Nine O'Clock by Atomic Euphonic/Dustin Boston is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Each week Atomic Euphonic creates a song idea, or Particle. Use it how you wish, ignore the crying babies, and don't forget to mention me if you use it.
Lullaby by Atomic Euphonic/Dustin Boston is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Each week Atomic Euphonic creates a song idea, or Particle. Use it how you wish, ignore the crying babies, and don't forget to mention me if you use it.
Lullaby by
Atomic Euphonic/Dustin Boston is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Textile Reference
Textile Reference for Brad Choats Textile 2.0.
IE7 only CSS hacks
Targeting IE 7 only using CSS
CSS hacks series
Using CSS hacks to target specific browsers.
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Itâs hard not to be a stupid geek. And by stupid geek I mean a smart geek who treats people poorly. Jeff Atwood points out that as a smart geek itâs important to reach out to the other folks and evangelize the latest and greatest stuffânew methods of doing things, ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
I so want to do this. I remember when I was in high school I did some screen printing but I had to cut the design out on this green piece of stuff and stick it to the screen. That sucked, this is way cooler. Of course itâs much harder ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Paul Randâ¦was a well-known American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs.
He was the creator of the IBM, ABC, Westinghouse, and UPS logos as well as many other amazing logos that have withstood the test of time.
Via Wikipedia & position absolute
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
So I was just over at This Old House when I saw a great font. I just had to know what it was. Now in the past I haven’t really had very good experiences with What the Font, but I thought I’d give it a shot anyway and hey, whaddya ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Demon Hunter is most definitely a very cool hardcore band. The thing that really does it for me though, is their uncompromising lyrics and stance on faith. They're no sell-outs lyrically. They're a pretty manly bunch as well. Check it out:
Here's part of the write up of The Triptych, on ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
If you’re trying to choose an Open Source Content Management System for your website there are a million things to take into consideration. I put together this little report to help make the decision a little easier when you have a similar set of requirements (which are really pretty basic):
Multiple ...
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