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.
Yesterday must have been an exciting day at the Twitter offices. They released lots of new stuff, including a way to embed tweets. I thought I’d test it out in a responsive setting, and it works like a charm. Another amazing release today that deserves your attention: Embedded Tweets!dev.twitter.com/docs/embedded-…Put Twitter EVERYWHERE!!! — Josh Brewer (@jbrewer) December8, 2011
We were thrilled at the Paravel office to see such a great use of Lettering.js on Twitter’s 2010: Year In Review site- specifically on the headline for The 10 Most Powerful Tweets of 2010. Josh Brewer, and the rest of the Twitter design team used it to split up the words within the title h1 to resize, position and change fonts; achieving a none-too-shabby intro to the page. If... Read more →
This morning I saw a couple of tweets from @seangaffney and @maxvoltar about the CSS text-rendering property, which is in the W3C Working Draft. Aesthetically Loyal has outlined the differences in kerning pairs and browser support for text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; quite nicely, and after seeing how well capital As, Vs, Ys and Ts display I had to test it for myself. Similar to Kyle Meyer’s experiment, I noticed a... Read more →
If building a multi-million dollar social media site was easy, I’d be typing this from the deck of my anti-matter powered yacht... in orbit. Just about everyone I know in the web design & development game has fielded an RFP for a social networking site buildout. While sometimes a real budget and scalable plan are at the core, it’s usually someone who’s seen a site like Twitter or... Read more →
