Posts Tagged ‘CSS3’
March 15th, 2010
There are some very interesting things going on recently in terms of how we put together our sites and it’s leading to quite a few interesting discussions, mostly between those who aren’t ready to even consider using new web technologies until IE offer support for them and those who have whole heartedly embraced the ideas of progressive enhancement and graceful degradation. Personally I fall into the latter category, using HTML5 to code up sites and using CSS3 all over the place.
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Tags: CSS3, design, development, HTML5, technology
Posted in Random thoughts and musings |
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March 12th, 2010
Well I have a new project I’ve been looking to start putting together for a while but I’ve got as far as a domain and a holding page. The project is called StatShare and is at http://www.statshare.net. The aim is for people to share their website analytic reports via the site, anonymously, and they will then be collected together and analysed to produce useful data on bounce rates, visitor numbers and conversion rates amongst other things. By giving sites profiles the site will hopefully deliver reports on bounce rates for blogs in various traffic bands for example.
If you’re interested head over to http://www.statshare.net and pop in your email address and be sure to follow the official StatShare twitter account @statshare.
Oh and there’s a bit of webkit animation in there if you can find it! – enjoy.
Tags: analytics, CSS3, google analytics, project, statshare
Posted in General Stuff, Newsworthy |
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March 3rd, 2010
Being rather busy I completely forgot to post the link to this last week, but I wrote an article for the great tutorial site NetTuts about CSS3 transitions.
It is a introduction for those who haven’t used the transitions before and goes on to a little more advanced usage within CSS3 animations – so go check it out at http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/css-fundametals-css-3-transitions/
Tags: animations, CSS3, transitions, tutorial
Posted in General Stuff, Quick Tips, Web Design |
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March 2nd, 2010
As you may have noticed about a week ago I gave the blog a spring clean and changed to a new theme I’ve been working on for a little while. I’ve felt for a while that the old site was rushed out a little back in October when I wasn’t 100% sure what was going to be the main focus on here and only a few months down the line I wanted a refresh for various reasons.
Using the great WordPress theme test drive plugin I worked away in the background with the site live putting together my new theme.
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Tags: CSS3, HTML5, redesign
Posted in General Stuff, KamikazeMusic.com |
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January 27th, 2010
The Blonde Board is a personal project that has long been in need of a revamp.
Started after a bit of fun at university the web site aims to collect together examples of all the daft things people say.
Tags: CSS3, design, HTML, Wordpress
Posted in Portfolio |
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January 15th, 2010
OK so it’s not 100% new, it is an old site that I’ve finally got around to breathing a new lease of life into. Still it enabled me to have a play with some things – CSS3 transforms and transitions, typekit and some nice drop caps. I’ve kept it all nice and simple as it will be a mostly text based site.
Let me know what you think
(I’ll be adding a tutorial here about CSS3 transforms and transitions so add the RSS feed to your reader so you don’t miss out!)
Tags: CSS3, new site, typekit
Posted in General Stuff, Newsworthy |
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December 18th, 2009
We always seem to leave browser testing till the end, open up Internet Explorer and within about 10 seconds of page load there’s a variety of swear words and we go off to hack our CSS or put in IE only style sheets. God help you if you go crazy and open up IE6, you’re sure to find some form of mess awaiting you.
Recently though my work habits have changed and I’ve decided to stop leaving it until the end, this has been prompted by a few things such as approaching the end of a project having not checked in IE7 and sending a colleague off to show the site to a client who, you guessed it uses IE7. (Sorry Andrew!)
Coupled with that I’ve started to develop sites in Google Chrome. I was impressed with Google Chrome when it first came out and apart from a few too many crashes with flash content it was pretty slick. However the lack of developer tools left me developing in Firefox and using two different browsers seemed a bit impractical.
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Tags: browser testing, cross browser, CSS, CSS3, HTML, HTML5, IE6
Posted in General Stuff, Random thoughts and musings, Web Design, Web Development |
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December 7th, 2009
Merry Christmas Twitters and RSS subscribers and all those who have found their way here via some other route.
Having started to get into using HTML5 and CSS3 in quite a big way recently I’ve put together a base package that I’ve been using to start projects off. (I’ll hopefully have some of them finished for you to see in the new year).
I was thinking to myself what better way to encourage people to start using all this new stuff than sharing the package with everyone. Now it’s not up to much but it will give you a basis to customize and start from for HTML5 and CSS3.
There’s a good chance my coding may not even be to your liking but that doesn’t matter, I’m making this available so you can download it and change it into your own starting point.
You can download it right here.
HTML 5 / CSS3 starter package [size : 715 KB]
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Tags: CSS3, HTML5, template
Posted in General Stuff, Quick Tips, Web Design, Web Development |
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November 4th, 2009
With the new techniques in CSS3 and clever applications of existing CSS it is increasingly stepping on the toes of JavaScript. Which to be honest isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
I thought I’d try my hand at something so here is a basic CSS tabbed content section that changes on hover.
Click here to view the demo
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Tags: CSS3, HTML
Posted in Quick Tips, Web Design |
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November 2nd, 2009
Having attended the “For a beautilful web” workshop in Newcastle I was very impressed with Andy Clarke and as such there’ll probably be a few more posts on here related to the stuff I picked up from the day and I would highly recommend anyone who can to attend a workshop or see Andy speaking if they get chance.
For those who don’t know, the workshop was all about using new technologies such as CSS3 and central to everything was the fact that websites don’t have to look the same in every browser. (Check out http://dowebsitesneedtobeexperiencedexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/)
I was convinced, the arguments for progressing and using this new stuff are great but I left and my first thought was “well it’s all right for Andy he gets good clients, but I couldn’t start doing that with our clients”. Which I’m sure is what a lot of other people think straight off, and then I did a bit more thinking and realised that was the stupidest thing I’ve possibly ever thought to myself.
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Tags: CSS3, HTML5
Posted in General Stuff, Web Design, Web Development |
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