Gene Crawford from UnmatchedStyle asked Paravel to design a page for this year’s CSS Off competition. Over 5,000 front-end developers have entered to show off their skills by taking a PSD we designed and coding it out. Entries will be judged and prizes will be awarded. Awesome! After a morning of team planning and intensive YouTube research, we settled on building a page for a fictitious gameshow on the... Read more
The concept of permanently placing content on a web page for a single browsing width or resolution is becoming a thing of the past. Media-queried responsive & adaptive sites afford us the ability to re-architect content on a page to fit its container, but with this exciting new potential come equally exciting challenges. Web designers will have to look beyond the layout in front of them to envision how... Read more
Lettering.js was built to solve a problem. As web typography improves, web designers want the same level of control print designers have. Just as we’ve moved beyond Helvetica and Times New Roman, we’ve begun to think about web type in finer detail than <h1> or <span> tags currently (semantically) allow. For example, when Dave Rupert and I prepared to markup the 3 sites for the Lost World’s Fairs... Read more
In certain situations, RGBa (red, green, blue, alpha) and HSLa (hue, saturation, lightness, alpha) color values can save the day. It’s widely supported in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, and IE 9, and when working with box-shadow, text-shadow, or when needing to apply a reduced opacity to a color without affecting the rest of an element, RGBa and HSLa can’t be beat. Dave Rupert and I recently put each... Read more
You’ve gotta appreciate the imageless design elements the CSS box-shadow property makes possible. No more slicing up 3 jpgs to recreate the depth so easily gained in Photoshop. Lately, we’ve been using box-shadow:inset on some Paravel jobs, and I’ve seem some clever uses out there on the intertubes. This property is compatible with Webkit (Safari & Chrome), Firefox, Opera, and IE9, so there’s no reason to hold off... Read more
IE9 public beta is here, and I’ve had the fair fortune to be recruited by The Friends of Mighty to showcase its support for the Web Open Font Format (WOFF). A while back, Jason Santa Maria called to see if I’d be interested in joining him on a team with Frank Chimero & Naz Hamid. After confirming my participation, as well as the fact that this wasn’t a... Read more
