Creating a custom sharing service
This is possibly an example of a pun which has gotten out of hand. It began when I was setting up some sharing buttons on a blog using the service sharethis.com. I couldn’t help thinking how funny it would be to have a similar service called “Cher This” which somehow allowed you to share a […]
Make it snow! CSS3 animated snowflakes tutorial
The brief I was asked to add a festive touch across a range of client sites by adding a falling snow effect in the background of the pages. To do this in a stylish, un-obtrusive and efficient way was the challenge in hand. JS OR CSS3? The first big decision was whether to use javascript […]
Playing around with HTML5
I’ve spent a little time recently trying out some newer html5 features as well as Facebook Integration. Cheers! I was browsing through my Facebook photos recently and the shots of friends enjoying drinks on a night out reminded me of the opening credits from Cheers. Wouldn’t it be great, I thought, if you could create […]
HTML5 Canvas Animations – Top Tips
I recently worked on a project creating an animated music visualisation using HTML5 canvas elements to create interactive animations. Since the canvas element is quite new, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of tips I’ve build up while working with it. In-memory canvas caching The biggest consideration with canvas animations in […]
Custom Styles for Select Inputs
It’s long been a problem for developers that the Select (or dropdown) input doesn’t allow you many options for customising their look and feel. You shouldn’t be trying to style selects! When you search for help on this matter, you often come across people arguing that select inputs get their style from whatever browser you […]
Twitter Changes Its Terms
In March 2011 Twitter announced some upcoming changes to its Terms of Use which would affect developers. This is really an understatement as what they’ve actually done is fundamentally redefined how they would like their service to be used and what developers ought to be using it for. What’s new? The most important changes can […]
Gerber uses Tweetedtrips.com
US Outdoors giant Gerber release their stunning new brand site, including a location map powered by Tweeted Trips
Target _blank is out the window
Clients will often ask me to target external site links to open in a new window. Of course the correct answer is “No, it’s not up to a site to determine how a link should work, the user can decide that when browsing.” Not only is it bad practice but the target=”_blank” tag has been […]
Captionator using JQuery
A nice effect is to have the caption for a text field within the field instead of having a separate label. However it can be frustrating for a user if they have to delete the text before they can type into it. This JavaScript class looks for texfields with a class of captionate and adds […]
Google dips its toe into font libraries
Google releases a beta version of its font directory and API