Cross Browser Techniques for Progressive Enhancement
Techniques I’m currently using to ensure that CSS3 and HTML5 are cross browser compliant.
Templating WordPress Image Attachments
Wordpress doesn’t come with any native tags to template post attachments so I came up with a function to help. Simply include a chunk of code in your functions.php file and call the function from inside the loop. The function returns and array with multiple pieces of info about your post attachments.
Yet Another Redesign
Once again, I’m redesigning my site. Go ahead and throw a beta sticker on this one because I’m throwing code up here whether it’s polished or not.
I’m busy trying to figure out how to properly display blog and portfolio entries without getting too crazy. Right now about the only page on this site that is finished is about me.
Proper Rounded Corners
I was guilty. I admit it, I was doing rounded corners wrong. In my current project I am using CSS3 to round the corners on containers. These containers have internal elements that get separated by a thin border. I was rounding the corners on those internal elements with the same radius as the wrapper container. [...]
Mobile Safari and Border Radius
Webkit is cool with border radius shorthand but not mobile safari. I ended up having to modify my Sass mixin to use webkit longhand for border radius.
Raleigh Bar Golf
Bar golf is a very simple game. It simply adds a little gaming element to the standard bar crawl. Have one drink at each stop along the way and you shoot par. Having a second drink at a stop means that you shoot a birdie. Want to score an eagle, have three drinks at one [...]
The MobileMe Transition
A month or two ago I decided that I was through paying $99 a year for MobileMe. I have been using the service for a couple years now. There are some great things about the service, especially for a guy like me who is a total Apple fan boy. But the cost is just too [...]
How Tweetie 2 Brought It All Together
As a web designer it’s extremely important that I stay on top of the latest news and trends in the world of design. Twitter has been a huge help with this. Before Twitter, I would scan a handful of design blogs to see if there was anything new and interesting. I have Google Reader set [...]
Creating a Lifestream
I have been giving some thought as to the direction of this site. 90% of this site’s design is centered about a blog. It doesn’t take long to notice that I don’t blog very often. So I have been playing with the idea of turning this site into a lifestream. The design would give equal [...]
Pandora Radio and Newspapers
Last night while I was cleaning up the kitchen I plugged my iPhone into the living room stereo and cranked up Pandora radio. When I was done cleaning I sat down on the couch with a beer while my wife joined me with a glass of wine. The TV stayed off and we just listened [...]
Finding and Consuming Content
At work I am part of a group that is focused on attracting a younger and casual news audience through careful page design and changing the way we present content. There has been a lot of talk on how young people and the casual news reader consume the news. I am certainly a casual news [...]
Breaking Away From Viewport
This site’s design is reaching a crossroads. I am starting to remove major elements of the Viewport theme in a move to increase the site’s usability and layout aesthetics. This move is being done with special category templates for the web and interactive sections of my portfolio. I have removed the sliding panels and opted [...]
Adding Social Media
For some reason, I am obsessed with getting my name as the number one Google result. I’m a web designer and my site isn’t on the top of the list when you search for Les James. This is especially troubling since I own the actual url. So I looked to see what the other results [...]
Rounding Corners
While writing up my portfolio entry on mobile templates, I got an idea of how I can round the corners on the viewport theme header images. I changed the template around on the single page to inject the image url into a background style on the wrapper div instead of creating a full img tag. [...]
Viewport Theme
Update: June 22, 2010: I am no longer using the Viewport Theme on my site. If you have a question about your Viewport Theme or WordPress in general feel free to shoot me a message through Twitter. Archived Post… I finally had a little time to work on this site. Wouldn’t you know I’ve thrown [...]
Twitter and Forms
Well I have taken my Twitter status off of the site. It was causing huge performance issues and it was really hampering my design time. I am also revising the site’s forms. I need to come up with a new way to show/hide the form label which will require me to create new label images [...]
Constructing lj
So I have the database set up and the initial theme files in place. There are still a few bugs to work out like commenting forms and image pre-loading, but for the most part the blog is fairly functionional. This is the first WordPress theme that I have built from scratch so it’s taking me [...]