A couple of weeks ago I posted Realistic Looking CSS3 Buttons, in which I tried to make awesome-looking CSS3 buttons that required no extra markup. For people who like more code and less talk, the end of the post has the link to the demo. As awesome as they were, they required an explicit width. This […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]