SimpleBitsHand-crafted web sites, pixels and text by Dan Cederholm.Automatic Awesompersands- August 28, 2008 Patrick Haney kicks it up a notch, automating awesompersands using jQuery. A few other worthy points are brought up as well: unbolding to get the proper italic version, and Jeremy Keith's clever suggestion that an ampersand is in fact an abbreviation (of the Latin et), therefore we could use <abbr> instead of <span>. Jeffrey Veen later added (at the An Event Apart San Francisco speakers dinner) that the lang="la" attribute should be added. I feel a SimpleQuiz resurrection coming...http://patrickhaney.com/thinktank/2008/08/19/automatic-awesompersands OMG Posters!- August 27, 2008 A blog about posters, prints, toys, dragons, monster trucks & eBay. Could easily kill the afternoon here.http://omgposters.com/ Yestermorrow DesignBuild School- August 27, 2008 Learn how to build green: "Yestermorrow DesignBuild School offers over 100 hands-on courses per year in design, construction, woodworking, and architectural craft and offers a variety of courses concentrating in sustainable design."http://www.yestermorrow.org/ Web Directions: East 08- August 23, 2008 I'll be heading to Tokyo this November for latest installment of the Web Directions conference series, along with Eric Meyer, Andy Budd, Jeremy Keith and Jeffrey Veen. The site for the show has just launched, featuring super mega turbo lifestream speaker pages.http://east08.webdirections.org/ Use the Best Available Ampersand- August 14, 2008 I love ampersands. And interest in this quirky character seems to be on the rise as of late. Case in point: Just last week, I purchased not one, but two t-shirts adorned with nothing more than an ampersand. That's telling, no For much of last year, I had a little portion of a presentation dedicated to using CSS to serve up alternate, compelling ampersands. It's also something I've done here on SimpleBits for quite awhile in our tagline. The simple little concept comes from one of Robert...http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2008/08/14/ampersands.html iPhone 3G Suede Jacket- August 8, 2008 Minimalist case, boasting "low profile slides easily into your shirt or jeans pocket". That's key. Plus, anything I've purchased from Waterfield has been top notch.http://sfbags.com/products/iphonesuedejacket/iphonesuedejacket.htm The tee I'm wearing today- August 5, 2008 Yep, another ampersand. Although the print on mine is light grey instead of black.http://snakesandsuits.bigcartel.com/product/ampersand-grey Theme- August 5, 2008 Had the pleasure of translating Jason Santa Maria and Liz Danzico's wonderful redesign of Theme, "... a bi-monthly lifestyle magazine that focuses on stories about contemporary Asian culture", into templates later implemented by Rich Watts. Congrats all.http://www.thememagazine.com/ Silverback- August 4, 2008 Getting caught up on things that happened over the last month or so, Clearleft has launched Silverback, their "spontaneous, unobtrusive usability testing software for designers and developers". A desktop application that captures screen and participant activity right from your Mac, then exports all of this to a Quicktime movie. Looks fantastic, and I'm looking forward to using it on some real work in the future.http://silverbackapp.com/ The Survey for People Who Make Websites 2008- August 4, 2008 I just took the survey. If you haven't, you must.http://alistapart.com/articles/survey2008 |