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Personal Blogs of Web People That I Like To Read

5/11/2011
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My favorite blogs are personal blogs of one person. I like it when blogs “have a voice” and personal blogs can’t help but have that since all the writing is by the same person. I read a bunch of them and I thought I’d share. Below is a big ol’ list that are specifically people that blog, generally, about web stuff – be it design, development, entrepreneurship, typography, business, illustration, whatever. You probably know a lot of them. Maybe some of them you don’t.

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Case Study: jQuery Fixer Upper

5/8/2011
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We’ll look at some jQuery code that a CSS-Tricks reader posted in the forums. We’ll suggest ways to improve the code to make it more efficient and more extensible. We’ll also make some guesses about the HTML that it goes with and discuss improvements there.

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Window Inactive Styling

5/6/2011
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Using some non-standard pseudo selectors, you can change the styling of things when the browser window is inactive. The only “practical” use right now is text selection colors, which automatically do this unless you override it. But we’ll fix that!

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#97: Intro to CSS Animations

Animations, like transitions, can alter page elements over time. Animations are more powerful and more complex in many ways. You need to declare an animation with a special syntax before you can use it, which allows you to specify values for multiple properties at different percentages of the animations completion ("keyframes"). Then when you do use it, there are lots of values you can set as to how you want it to behave. We'll cover all that as we build a fun little animated scene.

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