Archive for March, 2009

• Safari’s text-shadow anti-aliasing CSS hack Revision

  Mar 31 35 anti-alias, CSS, KTSH, safari, text-shadow

  I want to talk about a fix I found for Safari 3 and 4 for it’s issues with bad text-rendering with text, especially light text on a dark background. Previously, web developers have been using a text-shadow hack explained here.
  I learned of this technique through Bryan Veloso, who was using a black text shadow with [...]

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• Squared Eye

  Mar 26 8 design, Illustration, Inspiration, Squared Eye

  

  Holy flippin’ hamsters, this site is beautiful. I don’t know if I’ve seen a site that I love every “square” inch, but I sure do with Squared Eye. From it’s calming hues, to it’s sexy image preview tool tips, to it’s subtle fading navigation, I love it all!

  I love the cartoony, yet professional feel – something that I don’t even know if I know how to nail yet. With it’s generous use of white-space, large fonts, smooth-yet-subtle animations and the whale with ear-to-ear grins (I guess I’m loving hyphens), and gratuitous use of Archer, I dig this site big time.

  Do check it out. Do tell them that it is hot. Do make a site that is original, fun and smooth like theirs. Do subscribe to this site’s feed now, ’cause more inspiration is coming. Rock the free world.

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• Best Wordpress Design Award

  Mar 21 16 contest, design, wpwephost

  I like contests. I love the adrenaline rush and the thrill of the competition. I love winning. I love losing. It’s fun either way and I dig a bit of healthy competition.
  Last time around, I won and gave it all away! This time, I think I’m gonna try to go for it and blow [...]

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• Sexy Music Album Overlays

  Mar 17 93 album, CSS, last.fm, Music, overlay, png

  
  It’s the social web now. We share everything, from our musical tastes, to the bacon avocado burger we ate for breakfast , to the very funny things we say and do.

  I want to show you how to style your music streams and give you some graphics to do so, cause let’s face it, it takes time to design things and it’s easier to use mine than yours ;)

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