les james

design & stuff

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.

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 [...]

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.  [...]