Adding Color Content Boxes via CSS

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When it comes to my/our industry, one of the coolest things to me has always been that you can usually sit down and find tutorials online to build or do just about anything you can imagine, and these tools are usually shared openly by other developers. A prime example of this was last week when I shared one of Brian Gardner's posts from Studiopress on how to add some CSS3 buttons to a website project w/ just a few lines of code. I ran into … [Read more...]

Using CSS3 Gradient Buttons

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Okay, so Brian Gardner shared something pretty cool on his blog the other day and I wanted to be sure to share it here as well because I always like referring back to cool tricks like this from time to time on client projects. Occasionally there are times when you might want to add a button to a page or post as opposed to a text link to draw attention to the call to action for your readers. Here's what Brian shared, it has a few steps so I … [Read more...]

Pleth Website Redesign!!!

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I have had so many things going on lately that I haven't had time to brag on our team at Pleth for doing an amazing job on our new website redesign! I honestly can't remember how long this project has been in the works because every time the guys would get some free time to work on our website we would get busy all over again with a new wave of projects (definitely not complaining though!). This new redesign is really special in a lot of ways, … [Read more...]

What’s In Your Toolbox?

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It’s going to be a long weekend… With the help of my good friend Keith Crawford, I plan on reformatting my primary development machine today and doing a clean install of Windows 7. This project is long overdue, I can’t remember the last time I reformatted my drive, in fact this SATA drive that I am using now initially ran XP and then VISTA before I upgraded to WINDOWS 7 last year.  Fortunately I am pretty diligent when it comes to backups, so t … [Read more...]

Some Random Thoughts on Web Usability

I know that I primarily blog about social media, but I came to know social media by way of being a developer.  I have developed websites for the past decade or so, and that’s been my primary source of livelihood the entire time.  One topic that I rarely touch on, but is something that we, as designers, are expected to have an unlimited amount of knowledge about is usability.  I thought that I would do a post on some of my most r … [Read more...]