Archive for February, 2011

Sans-Serif

Sans-Serif

Have you ever written this? body { font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif; } You're all like: "Helvetica is the most awesome so I want that first, then Arial for PC's since hey it's pretty close, then fall back to whatever...

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How to Create a Delicious Green Apple Illustration

How to Create a Delicious Green Apple Illustration

Learn how to create a delicious green apple illustration in Adobe Photoshop with realistic shadow and reflection effects. ...

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Considerations for Mobile Design (Part 1): Speed

Considerations for Mobile Design (Part 1): Speed

This series aims to examine constraints in mobile web design. The first part of the series covers download speeds for mobile users, and how it effects the overall experience. ...

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Introducing the new SitePoint Market … Think “Craigslist” for Web Developers

Introducing the new SitePoint Market … Think “Craigslist” for Web Developers

Introducing SitePoint Market– The Web Developer’s Marketplace We decided it was time to change the old SitePoint Marketplace, and have invested considerable time and money over the past few months creating the SitePoint Market with one aim in mind;...

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I’d Rather Staple Bacon to My Face than Make a Cold-Call

I’d Rather Staple Bacon to My Face than Make a Cold-Call

In 2008, Eyes on Sales featured an article entitled, “Why Decision Makers Hate Cold Calls.” If you want to be convinced that cold-calling doesn’t work, that it’s a colossal waste of time, and that it’s the most “ineffective and...

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What’s New in WordPress 3.1?

What’s New in WordPress 3.1?

WordPress is the most successful Content Management System on the web. It may not be the most elegant or well-written, but there’s one overriding reason why it’s used by more than 13% of the top 1 million websites: it’s...

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Generated Background Noise

Generated Background Noise

jQuery plugin by Daniel Rapp to fill any element with background noise. Uses <canvas> to create, then turns it into an image and sets a repeating background-image . Even if you'd be against using this on a production site,...

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Stacking Order of Multiple Backgrounds

Stacking Order of Multiple Backgrounds

Multiple background images is a cool feature of CSS3. ...

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Design Festival: Over-Designing the Web

Design Festival: Over-Designing the Web

When the national library of France was built, it was an impressive feat of engineering and architecture. Like many buildings of the late 20th century, it used quite a bit of glass...

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Design Festival: Top 10 Dos and Don’ts of Web Typography

Design Festival: Top 10 Dos and Don’ts of Web Typography

To a good designer, setting text becomes second nature, but having a quick checklist to fly through in order to ensure the basics are covered can be useful, particularly for aspiring newcomers to the field. This is my list,...

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