Archive for February, 2010

3D Flash Slider….CU3ER!

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

I know these posts are too few, but I’ve had a lot to do. I’m entering a CSS contest over at css-tricks.com, redesigning THIS blog, learning jQuery, trying to learn PHP…whew. Not enough time, but I promise to do better.

Anyway, I saw this today while looking at a WordPress theme over at themeforest.net. I was reluctant to share this with you all, because I don’t think many know about this cool piece of flash. But…here it is.

CU3ER

cu3er

What is this you ask? Watch the demo. It does crazy transformations to whatever images you want, which you list in the xml file. This thing is FREAKIN’ easy to use. Check it out.

New design, coming along….

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

I threw this up quick just to get the jQuery written. So far so good. Here is a link to what it will look like. Take into account that the size will be adjusted of the overall layout.

Jack of all trades web designers

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

I read….scratch that, I scanned through an article today about the best way (according to the author) to create forms for you website. I won’t mention where, because that isn’t important. Neither is who wrote it.

It was some tutorial on how to use this web application called Wufoo, which from the sounds of it, does all the hard work for you. Creates the css, xhtml, and parses the data from the form created. Sounds great, right? That was my first thought, but five seconds later, I changed my mind.

Why Jeremy? Why is this bad for heaven’s sake? It does all the work for you! My answer…because it does the work for you. I’m not saying short cuts and what not are bad, I’m saying there is too much of this sort of thing. I really dislike the idea of web designers being a jack of all trades. No one becomes good at any one thing. They just sort of start packing all this nonsense into there sites, but they don’t know how to do it themselves. To me, that is dangerous.

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Blog redesign….its in the works.

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

new blog redesignLets begin again. A reintroduction if you will. What the hell is the point of this blog? Good question. I don’t know how many people, if any, actually read these posts. Really, it doesn’t matter. I think I write them for myself, to prove I am actually learning stuff along the way. Its mainly here to help beginners in web design/development. Tricks I’ve picked up to make my life easier, and hopefully yours, or things that took me a while to figure out through many a google search. If you have some years behind you though, and you learned something, I’m glad. Let me know by posting a comment. Oh, and I’m redesigning it!

What won’t you see here? Damn, you guys are doing awesome with these questions. You won’t see a freakin’ 50 AMAZING ICON SETS lists, or why beer sites suck even though they are selling cool products. There are enough of those kinds of web mags. I’m not that. Of course if I’m offered the money, I’m sorry, but I will be selling out in a second. You would too, so shut up.

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