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Premium Pixels Image Gallery In HTML

I’ve taken the Premium Pixels Image Gallery Design (PSD) and turned it into HTML, as a means of testing what I can do with CSS3. I’m pretty pleased with what I’ve been able to accomplish using CSS...

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Protecting Passwords

I’ve been using LastPass for a couple of months now, and it’s actually brilliant. Basically it stores all of my passwords securely online and by means of a browser plugin can automatically fill in all...

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Creating Creative QR Codes

QR codes are so hot right now, and clients are going gaga for them. They want them on their brochures, flyers, business cards, etc. Some even want them on their websites, but we bitch slap educate them...

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Having Email Fun Without Images

After seeing some pretty cool emails from Pizza Express I’ve been itching to do something similar for a while, building an email that looks great when images are turned off! Now, of course all your...

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Hello Mountee!

I’ve recently been doing a lot of ExpressionEngine work, and with that comes the pain of editing it’s template files. I tried doing it via the built-in editor, I tried using ExpressionEngine’s...

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Spritely Images

It used to be the case that you would only sprite images as a last resort, it was a way for the big boys to reduce server load by minimising requests. Nowadays though everyone can and probably should...

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Nested Animation On Canvas

I wanted to explore the possibility of using animated butterflies on a site I was doing, so took the opportunity to try out some animation on Canvas using JavaScript.  I started by taking a vector...

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Infinite CSS Shapes

I’ve used CSS to create squares and rectangles (obviously), I’ve also created lozenges and circles, even triangles in CSS. I’ve seen hexagons and pentagons, but never the infinity symbol! It’s really...

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CodeKit

If I’m doing larger content managed sites I tend to combine and compress scripts server-side, but for smaller sites I used to not bother. Manually combining and compressing files isn’t much fun, and...

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Yeoman and MAMP

Yeoman’s web app generator is a great workflow and collection of tools for streamlining your front-end development, but what happens when you need to add a back-end? Do you stop using Yeoman, or just...

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