When you’re enjoying the Super Bowl this weekend, be sure to check out sb46.twitter.com. Last month, Paravel had the privilege of working with Twitter and Mass Relevance to build the responsive site. You can track TPM (tweets per minute), and total tweets for each team as well as follow tweets from coaches, players, analysts, and fans.
To design responsive websites effectively and responsibly, I had to completely redefine the way I view the web. It pains me to admit it, but I wasn’t too keen on responsive web design right out of the box. Weeks after Ethan’s ALA article, I even briefly entertained the idea of writing a post haranguing the practice, nit-picking concerns on how using media queries to relocate elements on a page... Read more →
Our pals at United Pixelworkers asked us to design a t-shirt to accompany the launch of their lovely new responsive site. Reagan came up with this design inspired by old union logos, and kindly let me slap some texture on it before sending it off to print. You can get your very own shirt here.
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 →
I was thrilled to find myself looped into a few nominations for this year’s .Net Magazine Awards. I’ve been extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to work with my Paravel cohorts, Dave & Reagan, as well as Frank Chimero & The Do Lectures team. Thanks to the fine folks over at .Net for the continued support. It’s greatly appreciated. Here are the nomination categories: #10 Site of the... Read more →
David Perel from Obox asked us to design a video & photo WordPress theme a few months back, and now it’s live! Reagan and I went with a simple, type-centric layout in 3 color schemes (dark, beige and white). Each variation has a subtle grunge background texture. You can also build your own background with the included texture-maker .psd file. We had a blast working with David and... Read more →
