Tag: Web Design
10 Years
So for the tenth anniversary, the Zen Garden is open for business once more. I’ve thrown the codebase on Github, given the dusty copy a refresh, started the conversion of the site to HTML5, and brought all of the existing designs kicking and screaming into the modern age. The work isn’t done yet, but it’s […]
Line Clampin’ | CSS-Tricks
You want X lines of text. Anything after that, gracefully cut off. That’s “line clamping” and it is a perfectly legit desire. When you can count on text being a certain number of lines, you can create stronger and more reliable grids from the elements that contain that text, as well as achieve some symmetric […]
Hex Color Tool
I needed a tool that either added white or black to a hex color. Launching Photoshop just to drag a color picker around wasn’t cutting it. I looked around for a web app that would do this but unfortunately most good programmers are terrible designers. I built HexColorTool to fill the gap. It’s responsive too! […]
Frankie Roberto – Responsive Text
In agreement, nifty idea, but defiantly unsure of the practical application.
Tinycon – Favicon Alerts
Pretty sure I could count the number of times I actually looked at a favicon alert on one hand, that being said nice work.
whatwg – Requests for new elements for comments
Want to do comments on your new spiffy HTML5 site, use an article element inside your main article element.
Subtraction.com – Subscribing to The New York Times
Media companies respect their customers or maybe not.
The ALA 2011 Web Design Survey
Take it and tell the world (or really A List Apart and people who read it) a little bit about yourself and everyone else who makes websites.
Mozilla Popcorn – Making video work like the web
The concept is basically at points in the video you can load in data from the web about the video or what’s shown in the video from Twitter, Wikipedia, Google Maps and other stuff.
ignoredByDinosaurs – The Great Lie: Lorem Ipsum
Having done this more than once in 100% agreement.