I’ve been a front end developer for seven years this November, and the majority of that time has been spent on my preferred OS, Linux. However, as every good developer knows, platform agnosticism is requisite if you wish to properly approach any development project. As such, I spend a large amount of time working on [...]
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The New HTMLRockstars
Work on the latest version of HTMLRockstars began before I had any idea I’d be redesigning. In September of last year, after weeks of mulling the idea over, I announced to the staff that as of January 1, HTMLRockstars would be returning to it’s roots. HTMLRockstars was started as CSSRockstars in December of 2007 as [...]
CSS Mixins for LESS
If you are using LESS, or any other CSS extender such as SASS or SCSS, you’ve no doubt realized the power of Mixins. For those unfamiliar, Mixins allow you to embed properties of one class inside another class or ID. When extended with variables, Mixins can be a powerful tool for improving speed and consistency [...]
Stylized buttons with only CSS/HTML
These are a sampling of 5 HTML/CSS only buttons. They should work nicely in modern browsers, and maintain functionality in older browsers – but I only tested in latest Chrome and FireFox. I’d like to put out a pack of 20-30 different icons in a single style at some point, but for now these give [...]
Announcing PSD to Tumblr!
Over the last 12 to 18 months requests for PSD to Tumblr Theme conversion have greatly increased, from a handful in 2009 to several inquiries per week in October of this year. We started accepting PSD to Tumblr orders in March of this year, and are now turning them out regularly. We’ve now reached enough [...]