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Arting up the office with Susan Kare

November 24, 2011

It turns out my interior design sense is as clean and simple as my graphic design style. I prefer design that is modern and uncluttered; breathable yet punctuated with contrast. I’m also a fan of…

Faux Crop any size image with CSS

November 17, 2011

Here’s a quick tip on how to crop any sized image through CSS and an extra div. This technique comes in very handy when building websites for clients who don’t have Photoshop, or understand what…

Widget Logic is_active_sidebar fix

November 10, 2011

Dec 29, 2011 Update – Installing Widget Logic version 0.51 fixes the previous is_active_sidebar issue. Thanks to Alan Trewartha for continued development on this essential plugin. Carry on. WordPress doesn’t currently have a built in…

Why we use WordPress

August 31, 2010

Not much has been written on this site about WordPress, but over the last few years we’ve pretty much become a WordPress only shop – with 90-95% of our projects built on the platform. Here’s…

Fontin Sans on spigotdesign.com

June 5, 2009

Web designers have long desired to be able to use more fonts than the standard list of web-safe fonts. When Apple introduced Safari 3.1 in March 2008 with support for @font-face embedding, it looked like…

Drop down menus are good?

March 25, 2009

While I’ve designed a few in my day, it’s standard protocol around the studio to swat drop down menus like the annoying, dysfunctional bugs they are. But am I being too critical and one sided? Matt…

YUI Grids vs Blueprint (CSS Frameworks)

March 24, 2009

CSS Frameworks have been around for a while now, and while there are many detractors, the benefits they provide make them an attractive option for speeding up development time, as well as simplifying complex layouts.…