UPDATE: I published Realistic CSS3 Buttons Redux to make even better buttons. A while back Mike Rundle posted the terrific article Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces. He clearly articulates design details which make buttons look realistic and therefore push-able. If you haven’t read it, go there, spend lots of time looking at his excellent […]
Author Archives: Matt
The Erudite 2.5 Released
January 30, 2010 – 10:18 pm
The Erudite 2.5 has been released, with a couple of really nice new features. I had a request to include epigraphs in the theme, which perfectly matches The Erudite’s emphasis on typography and content. Have a look at the image or check the demo site: I also learned this month from WP core team member […]
On the iPad and Web Design
January 29, 2010 – 10:33 am
As usual, Apple’s newest creation has produced opinions. The rhetoric of those for and against it is predictably strong and, occasionally, ridiculous. I don’t care to add my voice to the din. My attention is more fixated on the fact that if the iPad is successful, we’ll have to say goodbye to a whole host […]
Quix Bookmarklet
January 26, 2010 – 3:01 pm
Here’s something pretty cool — a meta-bookmarklet called Quix.app by Joost de Valk. It gives you access to dozens of functions and bookmarklets in one container. Invoke the bookmarklet and type, for instance, “gs where do babies come from” to run a Google search on the current site you’re viewing. There are oodles of goodies […]
Subsetted Fallback Fonts
November 12, 2009 – 9:18 am
I recently launched thatwasnotok.com, a humourous take on how to handle social un-graces. One of the fun parts of designing and building the site was the freedom to work with a font like Chunk without resorting to embedding it in images or using sIFR or Cufon. I showed it to Tim Brown from Nice Web […]