CSS3 gradients are now well and widely supported by most major browsers — except, of course, Internet Explorer. IE9 is the only active version to allow multi-stop gradients with transparency. Even so, gradients are a bit kludgy to apply in IE9 and more limited compared to gradients in CSS3. In IE 6-8, we can make [...]
Building rich effects, widgets, and interactions with jQuery UI
February 29, 2012 – 10:46 am
The jQuery UI Library is an add-on to jQuery by the jQuery team that makes it easy to build custom rich effects and widgets. The jQuery UI Library’s website has a theming GUI called Themeroller that makes it super easy to match the jQuery UI widgets to your website’s theme. Alternatively, you can choose from [...]
Subtract from a Shape using Illustrator’s Pathfinder Palette
February 5, 2012 – 11:19 pm
Subtracting one shape from another with Adobe Illustrator is a matter of clicking a button: the “subtract from shape area” button in the pathfinder palette. This simple button holds vast power, as do all the buttons in the pathfinder tool.
Digging in to HTML5 Boilerplate
January 3, 2012 – 12:05 am
“The way that a lot of the HTML5 spec worked was just to standardize what browsers already did.” – Paul Irish, Creator of HTML5 Boilerplate In this post, we’ll dig in to HTML5 Boilerplate and explore some of the awesome things it has to offer. If you’ve got about an hour to kill, then check [...]
Non-Destructive editing with Photoshop Adjustment Layers
December 25, 2011 – 12:53 pm
Photoshop adjustment layers are much like any other Photoshop layer. They sit somewhere above or below the other layers in your layer stack and can be used with effects, masks, and filters. An adjustment layer will affect all layers below it. So, for example, if we applied an orange solid color adjustment layer to our [...]