Author Archives: Matt

Realistic Looking CSS3 Buttons

April 19, 2010 – 11:06 am

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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