CSS Image Notes Hover

This is another CSS experiment, similar in some ways to the CSS drop down menu, but for displaying notes about an image. The idea is to have a little information icon appear on top of the image, that will display more some notes about the image when you hover over it. …

CSS Menu Followup

So my CSS Drop Down post was dugg. Thanks for all the comments. And yes, I understand it's not compatible with IE6. My goal was just to experiment with a pure CSS menu. If you want to make it work with IE6, your best bet is to use a little javascript. :hover only …

Total Shinfo

I always get a kick out of sites like Thanks No and Sentenc.es, so I thought it would be fun to create my own. And considering I've been sitting on the domain totalsh.info for about a year, I thought I'd finally put it to use.

TotalSh.info is a place to point your …

Another Redesign

It hasn't been very long since I put up version 5 of Pixelspread. As any designer knows though, it's really hard to stay pleased with your own design. And with this little break from school, it's nice to be able to sink some time into some web design work I've been …

CSS Drop Down Menu

After playing with some javascript menus today, I decided to see if I could pull off a drop down menu without any javascript. I've seen it done before, so I thought I'd give it a shot. It actually ended up being pretty simple, so I thought I'd share the how-to.

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Download and Vinyl

I'd say it's pretty easy to declare vinyl dead. I'm sure I'm one of last kids left who has a record player in room. So when I heard this little piece of news from independent hardcore label, Deathwish Inc., I was thrilled.

Beginning with the Shipwreck a.d. "Abyss" …

Another Free Tumblr Theme

I never got around to making a post about Tumblr version 3, but I have been using it of course. Well with some of the new features, the themes I've put out before have become a little outdated, so I thought it was time for a new one. This one is called Color Bars

CSS Galleries

Since I redesigned pixelspread, it's been getting featured on a few CSS galleries. I just wanted to point a few of those out, as a quick little thanks for the feature. CSSFlash, CSSBased, CSS Artillery, CMS Showcase,

Epreo, and We Love Textpattern. If you're looking …

Sweet Beards

I just wanted to point out this post by Josh Minnich. He took the beard halloween costume I made available and made use of it.



Anyone else that wants to go for the late halloween costume, you can download the PDF right here

I'll be flying home to Massachusetts …

New Portfolio

I put up a new portfolio today. You can get there by clicking work above. Or you can try this new domain name I got: mattmcinerney.com. I wanted to create something that was very not-web-2.0. I used a lot of alpha transparent PNGs, and based it on a wood grain texture. …

Light As Typography

I was watching a series of Hillman Curtis videos today. While watching a short about one of my favorite designers, Stefan Sagmeister, the video quickly passed over a piece where Sagmeister spelt the word "for" with nothing but stacked slices of hot dogs and light. It …

Redesigners 11

If you don't subscribe to Redesigners I'd suggest first checking it out and then clicking that RSS button. They post briefs from time to time, a call to redesign something. This weeks brief:

Isn't condom packaging a bit, well, serious? Do we really take sex that …

City Remix

A quick follow up to the last post about City, my friend Dandee made use of the Garageband file to make a remix of the song. You can download it or just listen right here.

If you want to hear Dandee's own music, check out Lousy Robot or The Dirty Novels. And if …

City Music and Art

I started on this project maybe two weeks ago. I approached it with the simple idea that I was going to record some music, then create some artwork to go along with it. It sounded pretty simple, like any piece of music and the CD packaging that accompanies it. I …

Market and Money Folder Icons

I'm trying something new with Pixelspread as of today. I've decided to open a section called Market. This is basically a spot for me to sell some of my design/artwork. I've been thinking of doing it for a little while, so I figured might as well start now.

The first …

A Lesson to Learn from Web Design

I make this complaint every single time I watch a DVD. Why do I have to skip through all these advertisements? I paid for this, don't advertise to me. I understand when I watch network TV. You watch ads because the content is free. Understood. When you drop $20 for a

Design What You Know They Want

Clay Shirky brought the ideas of arrogance and humility in design up a few weeks ago. In his article for A Brief Message he states:

Arrogance without humility is a recipe for high-concept irrelevance; humility without arrogance guarantees unending mediocrity. …

Mark iPhone as Read?

I've always liked that little red bubble that appears on top of the Mail icon, that tells me just how many messages I have waiting for me. It looks cool and it serves a purpose. I like it on both my mac and my iPhone.

Sometimes that number stacks up though. I don't …

Apostrophe Catastrophe

The title is a little dramatic. I'll give you that. But I'm constantly finding new ways to drive myself crazy. Sometimes I think I just need to close my eyes and let everything go, but of course I can't do that. That's one step off death... or watching reality …

20 Design Resources

I stumbled across a list of 99 resources for graphic designers. Everyone loves a good list, but once you start making lists of 99 things, you end up with a lot of fluff. Of course the list was filled with a lot of really obvious resources or really really general ones …