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Dribbble

Cg — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:32:35 +0000

Well after what felt like forever I somehow managed to get drafted to the invite-only design community that is Dribbble.com! I have tried and failed before to get an invite but today was the big day, I came across Iain MacDonald via Twitter who mentioned he had two invites for Dribbble and if you were

Responsive CSS

Cg — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:40:23 +0000

I made my website more ‘Responsive’ this week after reading this great article. By adding in a new media query which, detects if a user is viewing my website on a device with a screen resolution of 480px or less, (iPhone users etc) a new CSS file is used called iphone.css which, I then use

CSS3 Button

Cg — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:57:53 +0000

I was bored so I created a CSS3 only button, with some nice grads, text-shadows, border-radius, box-shadow and :active styles too, I think it came out looking pretty great. The button uses no images at all and the markup consists of simply an <a> tag with a <span> inside – simple. Check out the shiny,

Looking back is not the future

Cg — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:13:21 +0000

Take a look at my website in IE7, it looks wrong, probably looks even worse in IE6. I know it looks wrong and because I want it to be right, it plays on my mind. So, why don’t I sort it?, well, firstly I do that a lot, I do a lot of pixel nudging

New Year

Cg — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 13:01:14 +0000

Happy New Year one & all, I hope you had a brilliant 2010 and I hope you all have an even better 2011! 2009 was a real shitty year for me personally; being made redundant from two jobs in the space of 8 months when I just bought my first house made 2009 one of

Copy & Paste – Wallpaper

Cg — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:52:32 +0000

For anyone out there who loves copy & pasting as much as I do, i’ve made a Desktop Wallpaper so you can show you’re appreciation. This wallpaper is here to tell the world how much you appreciate saving time through the form of copy and then pasting! The wallpaper is for people who use Mac’s

Slider Gallery Inline List CSS

Cg — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:36:32 +0000

The jQuery Slider Gallery by jqueryfordesigns.com is a great bit of jQuery that I used recently but it did come with some problems for me, mainly it seemed like you could only have scrolling items within a inline list, I found a solution. Now i’m no jQuery expert and will probably never claim to be,

Redesign

Cg — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:28:56 +0000

Hey all, welcome to the latest version of my personal website, I have to openly admit that I do change my website too often, but i’m sure i’m not the only one out there who gets bored very easily, especially if you’re of a creative mind. Anyway, I decided to do-away with my old design