Browsing all 15 posts tagged with css.
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Nearly two years ago, I introduced my Bare Bones Stylesheet – the basis for every project I’ve worked on since that time. It’s not a full blown framework, but rather a collection of selectors I commonly use. Everything from structural elements, to typography is covered. A couple options for different logo and nav treatments are included, along with basically everything else I might need. Since I work exclusively with WordPress, there are even some selectors for common template elements, like comments. It’s by no means the end all be all solution for coding…
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
This is probably the single most frequently asked question that arrives in my inbox, or elsewhere. And for good reason, I suppose. Seeing how I’ve been building sites on top of WordPress exclusively for about 3 years now. There are many different routes you can take when building a theme, and I’ve pretty much streamlined my method over the past couple years. Granted, there are always exceptions and I’ve found that I can’t work from a base template. Instead, I build “themes” from the ground-up, but with a little help. Here’s how…
Monday, May 28th, 2007
A few weeks ago, I finally got around to doing something I’ve been meaning to get to for ages. I created a bare bones stylesheet that I can use as a starting point for new projects. I established a set of common selectors months ago and found myself spending (or rather, wasting) time at the beginning of the CSS phase of every project re-writing virtually the same CSS. It only made sense to create a template for myself to save time, but you know how it is. “Create Bare Bones Stylesheet” sat as an…
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
I did something tonight that I have never done before. I thought about changing my site back to the black design and just went ahead and did it. I didn’t second guess myself, I didn’t try and work it into my schedule. I dropped what I was doing and sat here for a solid 7 hour stretch and just fuckin’ did it. So, why the change?
Monday, May 8th, 2006
I’ve accomplished something I’ve always wanted to do with my site – have multiple styles and let the user choose their preference. As promised, I deliver onto you, “Back in Black”, which is essentially my latest revision with the old colours. A bit more bold, as all the links are coloured where as they were only underlined with colour in my previous incarnation. The style switcher stores a cookie on your computer, so every time you come back (granted you haven’t cleared your cookies) you’ll see the style of your choice. Fun!
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Microsoft made a some big waves today by releasing the first public beta of Internet Explorer 7. Unlike the previous beta, which was closed to developers. This one features many crucial fixes as far as how it renders pages. Tons of the most notorious CSS bugs have been squashed and some other nice-to-have features been added. Transparent PNG support made it into the first beta, so there’s 2 huge things right there that should make all web designers rejoice. Now [Microsoft], finish this shit up and roll it out to the masses, stat!
Being a designer and a Windows user, I was obviously anxious to see how IE 7 was coming along. I installed it right away and no surprise, it replaced IE 6. Probably not a big deal for the average user, but I still need IE 6 for testing purposes. I remembered having older versions of IE 5 and 5.5 back in the day and after a quick search made my way back to evolt.org – Browser Archive. Low and behold, in the standalone IE directory, there’s a version of IE 6. I quickly downloaded it, fired it up and sure enough, it works!
Thursday, January 12th, 2006
Fellow 9ruler Volkher sent me a little heads up this morning that this site looks shockingly similar to mine. Indeed it does – it seems I’ve been ripped!
Surprisingly enough, I wasn’t the least bit angry. I thought for sure if this ever happened, I would be irate. Especially in a case as blatantly obvious as this one. But I wasn’t at all. I was actually laughing as I viewed the source and CSS to find out he hadn’t even bothered to change selector names and all of my comments are still in place. I mean, you know you’re a jerk when you rip someone this bad, but you’re a real lazy jerk when you can’t be bothered to change it up under the hood. The hover link classes are even the same for the main content areas.
The one thing that has got me a little upset though, is that this rip has been featured over at CSS Mania. Now that just sucks. Hopefully this dude has a little decency and will email them to let them know he’s not worthy of being featured. But honestly, I don’t see that happening.
Sunday, November 13th, 2005
When I determined how much content I wanted to deliver up front, I knew it would be a challenge to differentiate each section at first glance and to present it all in a way that wasn’t overwhelming or seem cluttered. This is where the use of colour comes into play. I love pink, and pink and black is the hottest combo ever. So pink represents this guy right here – whether it be the body of a post or a comment I’ve left. Green is “external” or off-site links and blue represents user feedback.
Once…
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
Over a week’s passed since the first annual November 1 CSS Reboot. And what a week it’s been! Some how, I ended up on the front page of many design showcase sites that I frequent (list here) – which was awesome to say the least. This brought tons of fresh eyes to my site and in turn, lots of questions in regards to how I have things setup here. I even received a handful of emails asking for my WordPress templates. While I’m not going to hand them over (yet), I will explain…
Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
Where do I start? The past few days have been incredible around these parts! I joined the CSS Reboot back in August mainly to motivate myself to actually do something with this site and to get my portfolio online (which is on the way). When mid-October rolled around and I was still working on the design, I considered backing out. I had already done tons of planning and research and had some new tricks up my sleeve that I was dying to try out, so I stuck it out – worked many late nights…
