After seeing some pretty cool emails from Pizza Express I’ve been itching to do something similar for a while, building an email that looks great when images are turned off!
A New Beginning
I’ve been neglecting this blog of late, but I have an excuse all lined up! I’ve started my new job at Cube³ as Digital Project Manager, and I have to say, it’s great! No, I really have to say that, otherwise they’ll sack me.
Creating Creative QR Codes
QR codes are so hot right now, and clients are going gaga for them. They want them on their brochures, flyers, business cards, etc. Some even want them on their websites, but we bitch slap educate them and move on.
Protecting Passwords
I’ve been using LastPass for a couple of months now, and it’s actually brilliant. Basically it stores all of my passwords securely online and by means of a browser plugin can automatically fill in all my online forms without storing the info in the browser. This is great at work where I don’t want to store my passwords in Firefox for all to access! I can also access the passwords via their site, or an iPhone app. What it also means is that I can replace the one password that I pretty much used everywhere (Yes, I know!) with unique 20 digit, alpha, numeric and special character passwords. Much more secure!
Premium Pixels Image Gallery In HTML
I’ve taken the Premium Pixels Image Gallery Design (PSD) and turned it into HTML, as a means of testing what I can do with CSS3. I’m pretty pleased with what I’ve been able to accomplish using CSS rather than images.
Getting Busy With CSS3
I’m a big fan of Premium Pixels, by Orman Clark and love his little freebies that he gives away every now and then. What annoys me about them is that they’re just designs, I want it to work! For ages I’ve sat there going “I wish someone would code these up!”. Can you see where I’m going with this one? For ages I’ve also wanted to play with CSS3 and see how far I could push it. Cue eureka! moment…
Designer Slash Model
This brilliant mockumentary from Digital Kitchen is a bit of an oldie now, but still makes me laugh every time I watch it! Check out Designer Slash Model for some more funny clips and content! Remember, perfect people create perfect designs.
Why I’m Considering A Distributed Version Control System
I’ve been using Subversion for a good few years now, it’s saved my bacon many a time and I really believe that everyone should a Version Control System in place, however, whilst Subversion has served me well, I do have a few issues with it.
Infinite CSS Shapes
I’ve used CSS to create squares and rectangles (obviously), I’ve also created lozenges and circles, even triangles in CSS. I’ve seen hexagons and pentagons, but never the infinity symbol! It’s really cool, there’s also some nice stars and hearts!
Nested Animation On Canvas
I wanted to explore the possibility of using animated butterflies on a site I was doing, so took the opportunity to try out some animation on Canvas using JavaScript.