September 10th, 2009
I find myself increasingly interested in user-intuitive and fun-to-use javascript “things”! I remember when I first started working in web, I had no clue what javascript was. It sounded really nerdy and scary (actually I still don’t know exactly what it is, hence i said javascript “things”… but at least I recognize it when I see it now). I really thought the direction would be about Flash everything sites. I’m glad it was just a phase!
Thank you, sites like AjaxRain for opening my eyes to different types of usages and opportunites.
Posted in web
September 1st, 2009
This is a great idea!!!! http://www.kickstarter.com/
“Kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers…”
I am planning to submit my Moments Like Today project to it and see where that goes. 
Posted in web
September 1st, 2009
Part 1 I started this project when I was travelling to New York for three days. The idea is to capture some of the shadows I noticed while I was there. I especially liked the shadows casted on the objects in the galleries.
Part 2 I was trying to find ways to visually present this project, and came across this full-window browser scalable j-query gallery. I cropped the photos at a ratio of 16:9 at 1000 pixels wide. If I only knew how to write javascript, I would try to add a preloader for each photo instead of one for the entire gallery. It gets a bit overwhelming when you have to load so many photos at once. I really liked the scalable and full-screen part though, so I’m keeping it! I will eventually make a simplified slow version of this where its just one simple page.
Shadows of New York
p.s. I also haven’t checked this in an IE browser so please don’t make fun of me if this doesn’t work in IE7 :]. pps. For personal projects, I am not designing for IE6 anymore.
Posted in projects, web
August 17th, 2009
Must specify width and height when using PNG fix for IE6, or else images will look stretchy and sad. There are still many strange things to learn about this old friend here, unfortunately.
Posted in web
April 20th, 2009
I am glad I am not alone.
http://acko.net/blog/css-sub-pixel-background-misalignments
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April 16th, 2009
If you are using IE, you aren’t seeing my nice rounded corners. meh!
I know the whole border-radius/-moz-border-radius css property is nothing new, but man, is it ever easy to use! I think i’ve suffered enough ‘manual’ rounded corners from past projects that I really really like this css property.
To my dear firefox and safari and good browsers friends, I’ll try not to over rounded-corner you of course.
Tags: firefox, ie, rounded corners, safari
Posted in web
April 14th, 2009
Here’s a site that explains User-Interface patterns by organizing them into categories and illustrates them with a lot of screenshots of how other sites use those patterns. Lovely!
Click here to check out UI-patterns.com.
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