Colin Grist - Website Designer, Developer and General Rambler

Centering positioned absolute elements

Cg — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:19:18 +0000

The other day I was needing to centre a positioned element and because the element had position: absolute; attached to it margin: auto; becomes null and void and instead you’re required to position it using left: 10px; top: 10px; etc. There are many hacks for this including wrapping the positioned div in a wrapper div

Multi Vs Single Line CSS

Cg — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:06:12 +0000

Aha, that old chestnut! I was recently tasked with writing down my preferred choice of multi-line or single line CSS declarations for an upcoming Coding Standards document at work and I thought I would share some of my pointers with the rest of you! I have developed many sites in the past using both single

Facebook Timeline PSD

Cg — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:04:41 +0000

Facebook Timeline is here! and whether you love it or hate it, it’s here to stay and it’s inevitable you may need to design a Facebook page to match the new look. Well thankfully a good friend of mine; Stu Jacklin has created this awesome 50mb monster of a PSD with layers to match every

Man Room

Cg — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:12:25 +0000

Well I finally did it, I converted the spare room in our house from a basic dumping ground for all my DVDs, Video games and CD’s to what can more commonly be referred to now as “The Man Room”. Yep, The Man Room or Man Cave if you prefer is basically an office now full

Gonewalla

Cg — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:28:51 +0000

Bye, bye Gowalla, the app I loved, that they changed for the worse has officially closed down. Sad times indeed. After the news around three months ago that Facebook has acquired the staff of Gowalla (not the data) things have been real quiet from Gowalla about what happens next; well it would seem that nothing

Themes

Cg — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:16:11 +0000

So I started putting themes on ThemeForest, I just have the one on there at the moment titled “Orange Moon” and I’m hoping it might do OK on there… It took me three attempts to get it on there, which is a credit to ThemeForest that they take such effort to make templates the best

More Prints

Cg — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:05:49 +0000

I just bought three awesome prints from a guy called Pixology on Etsy. His prints are extremely simple but the ideas behind them work really well. I purchased the Dead Space, Half Life and Zelda (of course!) ones, I would have preferred to purchase a Gears of War or Bioshock one as I would state

“Quit your day job…”

Cg — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:19:28 +0000

Just purchased this sweet Mario themed print from Zac Gorman at Magical Game Time. Awesome right? Can’t wait for it to arrive!

Olloclip

Cg — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:56:38 +0000

After being way overly impressed with my friends Olloclip 3-in-one photo lens for the iPhone I went and bought my own! Sadly it wasn’t as cheap as I was hoping at $69.99 and then having to pay £17.00 in tax was a bit of a kick in the nuts, but I was glad to finally

Icons, Icons, Icons…

Cg — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:30:42 +0000

No, not the celebrity type, the graphical type! – Yes, the new, highly anticipated iconography book by the very talented Jon Hicks has been released and I was there as soon as the book hit Five Simple Steps ready for ordering! At almost £40 (with postage) The Icon Handbook certainly isn’t cheap but according to

Tattoo

Cg — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:32:40 +0000

So after probably three years of deciding whether I wanted one or not, I finally got ‘inked’ yesterday! The design I decided to go with in the end was to represent the proposal of marriage, which I made on my recent Caribbean Cruise with my girlfriend and her family. I had a good idea of

Brave

Cg — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:49:42 +0000

The new film from Disney • Pixar is looking pretty, pretty sweet.

Google Chrome Text Opacity

Cg — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:00:43 +0000

Came across a very strange bug today when checking out a website in Google Chrome. White copy on a black background was not appearing, I could select the text and could also see it in Chrome’s Element Inspector. I changed the color to ‘yellow’ from ‘#fff’ in the Inspector and suddenly the copy appeared but

Caribbean

Cg — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:05:21 +0000

Phew, I’m back from the best holiday of my life – a two week Caribbean cruise! On our Royal Caribbean cruise we stopped at some wonderful spots such as Mexico, Jamaica, The Cayman Islands and Haiti. Whilst we were out there I surprised my girlfriend of 8 years and popped the question! Thankfully she said

Gowalla 4.0

Cg — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:39:32 +0000

Off the back of my original post about Gowalla, the team there have now released an updated version of the app and it’s absolutely beautiful to look at! The update is stunning from a design perspective especially that loading animation when refreshing your lists, however I do feel the app itself has taken a direction