Recent Blog Posts
Design thieves are idiots
post a comment | posted 2 weeks ago
Originally posted at /mike
Today a friend of mine found out his site got ripped. In this day and age ripping someone's site so blatantly is the lowest of the low. And you're going to get caught.
If you're selling yourself as a designer or design agency you should either have...
Gotcha with getting offsets in Javascript
post a comment | posted 3 weeks ago
Originally posted at /mike
Over the past several days I've been playing around with jQuery, trying to retool a couple things I've been working on. This is my first foray into jQueryland and it's been pleasant thus far. I did, however, run into a confusing little issue with p...
Sliding backgrounds with -webkit CSS
post a comment | posted Sep 11
Originally posted at /mike
After days -- and several attempts -- of scratching my head and trying to figure out how to have sliding backgrounds, ala Dave Shea's A List Apart article with CSS only, I think I've cracked it. Here's a quick look at how you can set up sliding CSS...
Not-So-Recent Blog Posts
More -webkit-transition funniness.
post a comment | posted Sep 10
Originally posted at /mike
Today I was revisiting my last attempt at doing sliding backgrounds or transitions with WebKit specific CSS properties. For some reason I thought there was another way around it. So far, I haven't found one to achieve the effect I'm going for but I...
FancyZoom. But edgier.
post a comment | posted Sep 6
Originally posted at /mike
The talk around town is that a couple boys, in some podunk town, wrote some Javascript code that has given them more hits in the last couple days then they could have imagined. Not sure it's all that fancy though, it still uses tables and that just...
You can't transition a gradient, apparently.
post a comment | posted Aug 30
Originally posted at /mike
While I was mulling through my feeds tonight I saw a link to Dave Shea's CSS Sprites2 article on A List Apart. To be honest, I haven't actually read it -- though I will soon, promise -- but seeing the examples put a bug in my brain. Maybe those eff...
Font unavailability -or- Why Adobe sucks, still.
post a comment | posted Aug 28
Originally posted at /mike
Today I wanted to spruce up a site design with a nicer typeface. I also wanted to stay away from image replacement techniques and sIFR, which makes the job that much harder. Obviously the major problem is what typeface can I use that will be consta...
Making Progress
post a comment | posted Aug 22
Originally posted at /mike
After forcing myself, and being encouraged by others, I'm proud to report that I've successfully made it to the gym 8 out of 11 times in the last two weeks. I'd say this is a pretty good start on this portion of my yo-yo trip to a healthier lifesty...
Bi-annual Post on Getting Fit
post a comment | posted Aug 12
Originally posted at /mike
It seems that I've written a decent amount about getting fit or getting healthy over the past couple years. Sometimes I stick with it and give regular updates, other times not so much. Whether that's procrastination or a problem with motivation, I'...
Getting Wordpress Email Notifications using Google Apps
post a comment | posted Aug 9
Originally posted at /mike
This is partly a reminder to myself and partly a note to the community as a whole. Ever since I set up screenflicker.com to use Google Apps for email I've not been able to receive emails sent from my WordPress install. After doing loads of searches...