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
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... 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... 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... 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Update: Surprise—This post is now outdated & is about a previous version of this site.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... Read more
