For each new web or app project I begin by making lists, writing, and drawing. I start by quickly sketching out as many different ideas as I can. Once I’ve exhausted every possibility I can think of, I choose the best of those ideas and start fleshing out those ideas into tight plans for how […]
Setting Up Dreamweaver CC for Clean and Simple Coding
For those of you who subscribe to Adobe’s Creative Cloud, you may want to use Dreamweaver as your code editing tool and that’s cool. Dreamweaver can be a great tool to use especially if you are already familiar with other Adobe products and are used to the Adobe interface. However, Dreamweaver right out of the […]
Introducing Burly, a WordPress theme framework
When building websites in WordPress, we don’t like to compromise on the design of the HTML & CSS prototypes we hand crafted during the website design phase of our client meetings. Transitioning these hand crafted website prototypes to a functioning WordPress installation always required an in depth understanding of the WordPress template hierarchy which was […]
We’ve started a WordPress Meetup Group!
Much of the web design and development work we do around here, including this website, is developed using WordPress. We often find ourselves discussing the pros and cons, the quirks, how-to’s, and other WP related stuff around the office, and sometimes with our close friends and family. The latter, we are starting to realize, probably […]
How to use Sass in Coda
Having just finished Dan Cederholm’s excellent Sass For Web Designers I wanted to delve right into Sass myself. So I jumped right into my go to text editor, Coda from Panic, and while it did support the Sass syntax it sadly doesn’t automagically compile the Sass into CSS for you. So after some digging and […]
How nerds read time
This Friday I wanted to learn some more about the new CSS3 viewport units so I decided to create a binary clock. Viewport units allow this clock to scale its size fluidly on any devices screen. Go ahead, try opening it up and resizing your browser, try making your browser window taller than it is […]
