TIPS, TRICKS & BOOKMARKSBackground Position X and Y
Every now and then I look at using background-position-x and background-position-y but can never seem to find a definitive and up-to-date resource. To save myself the trouble in the future, I'm documenting it here. Positioning via separate X and Y values is a feature that Internet Explorer introduced but never made it into a W3C specification. Any recommendations to add it to the spec have been d...
Review: Logo Design Love
Logo Design Love is a book written by David Airey that covers the whys and hows of brand identity development. The book is broken down into three parts: The importance of brand identity, the process of design and keep the fires burning which looks at how to find motivation and inspiration. It's a light 200 pages with readable type and plenty of examples. David Airey aims this book at the aspiri...
Multiple Backgrounds and CSS Gradients
CSS3 features are making their way into the various browsers and while many are holding off on implementing them, there are those who are venturing ahead and likely running into a world of interesting quirks across the various platforms. Two such features that I have been having the pleasure of enjoying are the use of multiple backgrounds and CSS gradients. I'm covering both features because mult...
Safari and Transparent Borders
I had noticed this little bug on my own site. In the footer, there's a 5px border with the colour set using rgba. In Safari, it's as if the semi-transparent borders overlap each other in the corners and the values are compounded. This creates little squares in the corner of my squares. Not quite what you'd expect. Firefox and Opera (10.5; I didn't test in 10.10) render this as you'd expect, wit...
Onward
It's so easy to wallow in self-pity when things don't go right. As much as 2009 sucked on all levels, it wasn't all bad. As much as I want to sulk, the fact remains that I live a charmed life. Through some karmic luck of the draw, I've got a lot to be thankful for. Personal Projects This past year was a year of simplication and basically had me letting go of all my personal projects—at lea...
Failure
It has been a year marked with a series of failures and while I feel some urge to explain it all, I think it will be better off left unsaid. This post is a stick in the sand to remind me of what has happened. Onward we go, for time gives us no other choice....
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