Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. You’ve heard about tilt-shift miniature faking photography before. Basically, the photographer is trying to emulate what you’ll see when viewing a miniature model set – with a very narrow depth of field plus a colour-wise souped up version of the scene (usually model designers love colour saturation a [...]
As javascript libraries becomes increasingly popular among designers and website visitors alike, your daily visitors are now expecting more than just static pages – they would be thrilled to see interactive, fluid pages. In 2006 A List Apart published an article on the holy grail of webdesign, which involves coding for fluid layouts in CSS. With the popularity of javascript libraries like jQuery, Soh Tanaka has written an excellent tutorial on teaching us how to incorporate fluid display options on our pages – allowing visitors to switch between different forms of display (think iTunes libraries). An interesting concept that is actually very simple, and can be easily done with a few lines of jQuery and CSS.
Abdullah (@Qbrushes) from Qbrushes compiled a neat list of 23 amazing light effect and abstract photoshop brushes. It’s almost a must for a designer to have these brushes handy because they save you all the trouble of making your own set of brushes from scratch. More importantly, these are high quality brushes that we’re talking about
I’ve been dreaming of doing something nice to people who’ve been a huge inspiration to other designers like me – I know that I’m not good at reviews (I can’t harden myself to criticize on one’s work) but another way to appreciate what they’ve contributed to the creative pool of design is through linking and [...]
I read about it on Fubiz.net (be sure to bookmark it or something, especially if you love viewing elegantly designed things and lovely photography works from various artists) – the zoetrope, verified as the world’s largest by nothing less than the Guiness Book of Records, was contructed over a 6-week period in a small town [...]
Recently I read about an article that teaches web designers five ways to write better, neater and cleaner CSS by Trevor Davis, after following a link in a tweet.
In case you’re still wondering what CSS stands for, it actually means Cascading Style Sheets – the stylesheet part is easy to understand. CSS is created with a notion to separate content and styling. The cascading part is a little tricky – it means that you can actually override certain properties in the stylesheet by being more specific in your selectors.
Back to the post itself, here are the five ways Trevis recommended, with my personal opinions/comments.
Thanks to Iva for requesting for this tutorial! Finally I have something to add to my long-dormant list of resources. Iva asked me over Twitter whether could I write a tutorial on how I’ve incorporated the famous Coda glider effect on my blog header. The basic function of the glider script is to replicate the [...]
