How To Create a Notebook Design with CSS
Feb
23
2012
31
This tutorial, a guest post by young developer Allen Lawson, will show you how to create a notebook themed website using only CSS.
My Slides from InControl 2012: What We Don’t Know
Feb
22
2012
I know it’s weird to go through slides of a presentation outside of the context of a real talk (and pales in comparison to the experience of being there) but nonetheless, there may be bits of goodness you can extract from them.…
Things It Might Be Fun/Useful to Try the Universal (*) Selector On
Feb
15
2012
What CSS properties might it make sense to apply to every single element on the page? We’ll take a look at some that may (or may not) be a good idea.
TL;DR on Vendor Prefix Drama
Feb
10
2012
Quick overview of the hot drama regarding vendor prefixes.
Musings on Preprocessing
Feb
8
2012
I’ve been using SASS for pretty much everything I do recently. Here’s some musings on the journey. From hold-ups, to trip-ups, to turn-offs. From apps and teams to workflows and syntax.…
Latest Snippets
- Corner Ribbon
- Layered Paper
- Base64 Encode of 1x1px Transparent GIF
- Post Data to an iframe
- Append / Prepend Files
- Subdirectories URL Internally Redirect to Query String
- Redirect to SSL
- Remove Inline Styles
- Remove Specific Value from Array
- Paste Events
- Turn on WordPress Error Reporting
- Remove Gallery Inline Styling
- Detect Location by IP
- Send a Text Message
Latest Screencast
#109: Getting off FTP and onto Git Deployment with Beanstalk
In this screencast I move my own personal website from my old live FTP editing ways to a proper version controlled system including deployment. I haven't had much experience with this, so forgive me if it's a bit rough.
We start by moving the live website local, including bringing all the files down and copying the database. Then we set up a Git repository in Beanstalk and push it all up to that. Then we give Beanstalk our FTP credentials and set up how we want deployment done. Then we make some local changes to our site, and commit/push them to Beanstalk, which does the deployment for us. By then end, it's all working perfectly.
If you've got questions/comments/suggestions on this workflow, I'd love to hear!
Links from the video:
- Coda
- WordPress
- Plesk / phpMyAdmin
- ChrisCoyier.net / MediaTemple
- Sequel Pro
- Sublime Text 2
- Beanstalk
- MAMP / MAMP Screencast [1] [2]
- Git Tower / GitHub Screencast
Hot Links
I can’t design in the browser →
Sarah Parmenter with some good honest thoughts about the popular idea of designing in the browser.
I’ve tried, goodness knows I’ve tried, but my designs end up suffering, looking boxy, bland and uninspiring.
Not that I'm that great of a designer but I feel the same way. I have to start in Photoshop to get anything decent looking. I try to get out it as soon as possible, but once I'm into the HTML/CSS my brain is in a more analytical and less creative mode.
ShopTalk Episode 6 →
This week Dave and I were joined by Zoey Gillenwater and we chat about print stylesheets, CSS formatting, icon fonts, spec mysteries, and much more.
BarCamp Tour 2012 →
I'll be representin' Wufoo at a bunch of BarCamps again this year. Super fun. We need to figure out exactly what (U.S.) cities we are going to go to this year, so if you are organizing one, hit us up at the form on the site.