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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Often, when I write something for CSSKarma I try and make it unique rather than picking up the hot topic and throwing my2cents in about it. You may have noticed the lack of HTML 5 posts, even though I spoke at the Penn UI Conference about it. There’s actually quite a bit buried in the [...]
Tags: qr codes
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Sliding Labels Official Plugin Release [ver. 3.2]
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
View Demo Plugin Minified Plugin Version: 3.2 – Added a “className” option so you don’t have to use “.slider” as the wrapper Version 3.1: Changed “children” to “find” so it will work with a UL. Thanks to Oro for the feedback Version 3 of Sliding Labels brought some big changes, the largest being that I [...]
Tags: form, javascipt, jquery, plugin, ui
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What You Need to Know About Behavioral CSS
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Hi all, I had a new article published over the weekend at Smashing Magazine. Check it out and let me know what you think! Behavioral CSS I wrote it quite a while ago and it seems to be showing a bit in the comments, but overall, I’m pretty happy with the way it came out [...]
Tags: article, CSS, smashing magazine
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CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites
Friday, December 18th, 2009
I know I haven’t posted in a while, but I wanted to stop by and let everyone know that I have a new article out on Noupe.com called “CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites” It was pretty fun to write trying to think back to my beginnings in the Web [...]
Tags: article, noupe
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Quick Tip #3 – Textarea Fonts
Monday, August 31st, 2009
The Problem The font family in this text area default to Courier New, but that’s pretty ugly. The Goal Look at the nice font in this textarea! The Solution You have to redefine the font-family for a textarea. Just a weird quirk. textarea{ font-family:Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; }
Tags: beginner, forms, quick tip
Posted in Web Development | 2 Comments »
Selectable RSS with SimplePie and jQuery
Monday, August 17th, 2009
I was building an RSS reader for a project last week and it turned out to be a cool little app. So I thought I’d share some of the code. View demo Download demo files Let’s start off with the HTML we need to get some user interaction with the form. It’s a pretty basic, [...]
Tags: advanced, ajax, rss, simplepie, ui
Posted in Web Development | 8 Comments »
10 Videos for the Web Community
Friday, August 7th, 2009
I was poking around YouTube last night watching some design videos and I thought I’d share them since it’s been my RSS feed has been a bit stale lately (I’ve been working on a pretty big redesign for this site). Enjoy! Web Design Mistakes Duration: 3m 52s Watching someone use a screen reader Duration: 3m [...]
Tags: beginner, kindalame, video, youtube
Posted in Web Design, Web Development | 5 Comments »
Quick Tip #2 – Bringing Back Search with jQuery
Monday, June 29th, 2009
This is something I use on all my projects now. It’s designed for a search box, but can be used with any sort of input field. The great thing about this is that the field value “Search” will only come back onBlur if the field is empty (or doesn’t say “Search”). So if you started [...]
Tags: javascript, jquery
Posted in Web Development | 6 Comments »
Quick Tip #1 – Image Replacement
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Problem Image replacement can be easily abused; but when used properly (like replacing logo text) it’s a great resource. Image replacement without extra markup usually means setting text-indent:-9999px on your link. And this works great great. But in a lot of browsers it leaves a focus outline that runs way off the page to the [...]
Tags: CSS
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