A Strange and Sudden Design Trend
It’s weird. Practically overnight, several major blogs rolled out similar redesigns that follow this emerging trend that Usability Post has documented. Suddenly, Mashable, The Next Web and ReadWriteWeb...
View ArticleNot All Skeuomorphs are Bad
There has been a significant backlash against the design concept of skeuomorphism lately. So much that the term has started leaking into the vocabularies of commenters on tech blogs. Users are calling...
View ArticleHTML and CSS: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today by Brian P. Hogan
I recently unearthed a review copy of a book that somehow got lost in the shuffle a couple of years ago, HTML5 and CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today by Brian P. Hogan, which is too bad,...
View ArticleAdobe Kills Creative Suite, Demands Monthly Subscription
At the Adobe MAX conference this week, Adobe announced that they will be discontinuing their Creative Suite products (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) in favor of their subscription-based “Creative Cloud”...
View ArticleCSS Zen Garden Returns
It’s been ten years since CSS Zen Garden launched with its goal to excite and inspire people to build creative designs with the much more limited tools CSS offered at the time. A decade later, it’s...
View ArticleSolar: A Jekyll Theme Based on the Solarized Color Palette
I’ve been having fun playing around with Jekyll and Ruby lately, which has lead to a sudden increase in the number of repositories on my GitHub profile. After converting my personal blog and porting...
View ArticleHow to Handle AdSense in Responsive Designs
Responsiveness is clearly the future of web design, but one little problem with is advertisements. Ad networks, Google AdSense includes, don’t take kindly to you simply hiding them at lower resolutions...
View ArticlePlacekitten: Placeholder Images for Your Design Mockups
There are already plenty of alternatives to plain old Lorem Ipsum text, the ever-popular Hipster Ipsum being just one of many. But what about images? Why use boring grey boxes like the one Placehold.it...
View ArticleSetting Up a LESS Workflow in Sublime Text
LESS has been a popular way to streamline your CSS-writing for a while now, but fitting it into your workflow isn’t always easy. Some designers use standalone applications like CodeKit or SimpLESS to...
View ArticleSolar Theme for Ghost Blogs
Need a stylish new design for your Ghost blog? Looking for something that puts your content first, with an emphasis on reducing eye strain? Allow me to introduce my new theme (which is technically a...
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