Page speed and load times are the foundation for a positive user experience on the web. Let’s face it, if your page fails to load in time, all the effort put towards information architecture, content strategy and interaction design will be for naught. During my formative front-end coding days, I did a fair bit of assuming that as Internet connections transitioned from dial-up to DSL I’d be able to make compromises. Piling sprite-less PNGs upon redundant CSS upon tons of HTTP requests became commonplace,… Read More
I use the column-count & column-gap property on the search page of this site to break my Tags list into 4 columns. Because the content is dynamic, I couldn’t just hard code each column, and I didn’t want to waste kilobytes on running a WordPress plugin to achieve an effect that was possible with a single line of CSS. Currently, only firefox and webkit browsers supports this feature and they all seem to do it differently. I’ve noticed that Mobile Safari, Safari and Firefox… Read More
I love Dribbble. In addition to being continually inspired and challenged by the caliber of the pixel-shots, I’ve made quite a few new friends through this great online community. When Dan Cederholm and Rich Thornett took dribbble public, I noticed an RSS feed available for each player’s latest shots. This lead to me begging the multi-talented Dave Rupert to cook up a WordPress plugin that would display a player’s latest dribbble shots on his or her blog. As you may have already noticed from… Read More
Update: Surprise– This post is now outdated & is about a previous version of this site. To learn more about what I’ve got cooking now, click here. It may not look like it, but this version is a complete code & design overhaul. Tiny annoyances with my style sheet and page structure compounded over the past few months until I happily yielded to the urge to start messin’. Outside The Box I love the 960×400 pixel graphic playground that the banner box above provides…. Read More
