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I recently read a really useful article on smashing magazine about OOCSS (object oriented cascading style sheets) and it got me thinking about different ways to improve the way I write my style sheets.
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Inline styles are a big no no, but lets face it there are somethings we have to deal with from time to time. I have come across situations where I don’t have access to compiled code and can’t access inline style that have been assigned. Here’s a neat trick.
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I have been dedicated to the book apart series since I first laid eyes on them. They are beautifully designed, and they are on target with what’s happening on the web. Short and concise, That’s the best way to describe each book. I just finished reading Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski and it wasn’t what I expected.
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We all know CSS3 is here, and its here to change the way we develop the sites we design. It’s going to keep us all on our toes, waiting in suspense to get the go ahead to start using one more feature that is supported through all the browsers.
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CSS3 offers a wide range of new things to play around with, one of them being border images. I wanted to do a little demo to show what they can do.
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Things are changing faster than ever online. Its been maybe a little under a year since I orginally launched designersblueprint.com, and now it’s time for a change.
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I have been spending the last couple years perfecting my approach to my style sheet. I have found some stuff works and some stuff doesn’t, it can sometimes just depend on the size of the project. Here are a few pointers I have come up with.
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The challenge was to make a redirect page that was interesting enough to get people to actually look at it, the fun part was all the CSS3 I got to play with.
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I wanted to attempt to recreate the main logo for my site using a more responsive approach. It was pretty easy to recreate it with a little bit of CSS3 pseudo classes and background clip.
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I am a firm believer in brand recognition and at first I wasn’t sure a rebuild was the greatest idea, but I think my site needed a fresh start.
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