CSS3 Animated Buttons
Today I was tasked with creating some wacky CSS3 animated buttons. I started out by looking at one or two tutorials before I was able to come up with something of my own. The button made use of three typical states: regular, hover and active. I started out by coding the buttons so they’d look...
Read more…January’s 12412: Researching LESS & SASS
My first 12412 project was to research and learn about SASS. After the recommendation from several people, I also decided to check into LESS. I’d been hearing a lot about the two techniques and was quite skeptical – in fact it seems I’m often skeptical of new things out on the web. Most frameworks, shims...
Read more…Review of CSS For Print Designers by JD Graffam
I met JD Graffam a few years back at Barcamp Memphis, though I doubt he remembers me. So I was fairly surprised to see his name when I picked up a copy of CSS for Print Designers. His book, targeted obviously to code newbies with a background of print design, was something I wouldn’t normally...
Read more…Step-By-Step: Turning A Design Responsive in WordPress, Part 5
Phew, can you believe how far we’ve come? Cross your fingers for the finale, we only have four mockups left to code: blog single, extras, about and contact. Let’s see if we can make it in one post! Other Posts In This Series Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Blog Single Last week...
Read more…Step-By-Step: Turning A Design Responsive in WordPress, Part 4
We’ve come a long way in the past few weeks already, but we’ve still got seven more mockups to go. This week we’ll be focusing on the portfolio detail, testimonial and blog archive pages. Other Posts In This Series Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 5 Portfolio Detail The portfolio detail page is pretty...
Read more…Step-By-Step: Turning A Design Responsive in WordPress, Part 3
Back for another week? In the first week, we got our design ready and coded the header. Last week, we coded the homepage content. This week we’ll be finishing up the homepage and the footer, and doing some testing. Maybe we’ll even get into one of the sub page designs, maybe not. Other Posts In...
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