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Category Archives: Code/Design

Nice Surprises

March 16, 2011 – 2:39 am

Tonight I felt the need to give a grateful shout out to WordPress. While putting together a website for a new client, I stumbled across a small feature in the custom menu section. It’s not a big thing, but is an example of user interface happening the RIGHT way. In many apps you can drag [...]

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The Sincerest Form of Flattery

March 11, 2010 – 10:09 pm

My wife owns (and at the time of this posting is selling) a dog training business in Negaunee township called Tandem Dog Training. A new-to-the-scene competitor (or her designer) apparently felt that my wife’s website was worth copying. Take a look…. My wife’s website (that we built): The ripoff: While the main difference is that [...]

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HTML 5

February 10, 2010 – 12:05 pm

Recently, the popular online video services Vimeo and YouTube announced that they would be rolling out support for HTML 5 video. Wait. What’s HTML 5? It’s the next version of  the basic code that is used to create web pages. It will offer various ways to create web pages that are richer, and both user [...]

By Kenric | Also posted in Commentary, News | Comments Off

Goodies

September 16, 2009 – 9:39 am

What’s nice about the internet is that there are so many sites out there that offer free resources for design. The thing is that sometimes they can’t be used for commercial purposes or maybe require credit to be given each time you use the download, which is a problem if you happen to be a [...]

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It’s Curtains! (Disguise long image load times with some javascript and CSS that pretends to be Flash.)

September 11, 2009 – 10:34 pm

If there’s no way around a few large images in your design, but you don’t want the page to load piecemeal, here’s a way to cover them up while they’re loading, with a familiar looking “flash” style curtain. Basically, what this does is use Javascript to cover the page with a styled DIV (the curtain) [...]

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