Colin Grist - Website Designer, Developer and General Rambler » HTML

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

Me.com

Cg — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 14:23:33 +0000

Apple’s new Me.com is up now, you don’t even have to sign in to witness the beauty, this page is beautifully designed and is using some modern HTML5/CSS3 techniques such as canvas and webkit to make the particles follow your mouse around in the background, it also adds sheens to the iPad/iPhones in the background,

Build Conference

Cg — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:24:37 +0000

So in a few hours i’ll be jetting off to Belfast for the annual Build Conference, are you going to be there? As it says on the official Build Conference website – “Build is a small, yet perfectly formed, boutique design conference where interesting, talented web practitioners from all over the world come to share

Neat Google easter egg

Cg — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:05:19 +0000

A work colleague recently pointed out that if you currently Google the term “World cup” that the normal Google results pagination at the bottom changes from Goooooooooogle to Gooooooooooal!, pretty cool, that letter ‘a’ looks a bit strange, mind! If you’re too lazy to Google it yourself let me do the hard work for you.

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