A very well put together pdf/iBook download for web designers. Great tips here on basic color settings to ensure your Photoshop and Illustrator work stays color consistent, proper alignment among vector objects, good use of layer effects and much more.
Ask almost any front end web developer: once you get deep in a complex, ongoing project with a lot of CSS, unused selectors can be a problem. We’re naturally inclined to keep on bulking up our projects with cool CSS3 transformations and responsive media queries, but it’s decidedly unglamorous to prune what’s no longer needed.
That what makes this little Firefox plugin such a good start. It’s far from comprehensive – you only can really search for unused selectors in the immediate scope of the page you’re on – but it has come in handy.
A nice ongoing feature over at Press Play with video essays and written analysis of this year’s Oscar nominees. I especially liked their breakdown of the supporting actress category; with all this attention focused on Anne Hathaway, it’s easy (and unjustified) to forget why the other four nominees are even there, especially Jackie Weaver.
There are other image placeholder generator sites out there, but there’s something about this one that’s endearing. With a simple image or CSS background request to fakeimg.pl in addition to the expected pixel dimensions you can set custom text and colors as well.
As I’ve noted previously here, a great design and development working relationship is essential. Developer Derrick Ko writes a great post on how to make that possible:
Plan your sprints with both engineering and design present. Give both sides a chance to be heard when deciding the priority of upcoming feature work. There’s a lot less friction when the team understands the tradeoffs at play.
Once things are prioritized, stick to it.
Brad Frost is a prolific, smart web designer with big credentials (e.g. Nike, An Event Apart), so it’s no surprise that he makes a strong case that generally web carousels are unnecessary (in Brad’s words, “carousels are organizational crunches”) or poorly implemented. It’s advice I’ll consider when I’m reflecting on the carousel that’s running on my home page…it may need a rework.
There are many excellent guides and references online for basic, “core” HTML and CSS. But for more intermediate and advanced topics like media queries and CSS3 based transformations, most great articles tend to be comprehensive yet very narrow in scope. This extended tutorial guide set up by developer Shay Howe and others is different; you’ve get a really nice starter introduction to a broad range of HTML and CSS topics.
One small quibble though; I’d argue the second lesson on “detailed positioning” is content that should be in a basic or starter tutorial, not a guide labeling itself as advanced.
Film Crit Hulk:
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BUT IN ALL THE PRESS THAT HE GOT TO DO FOR THE FILM, THERE WAS SOMEONE HE REFERENCED TIME AND TIME AGAIN, AND INSTANTLY HULK SAW THE ENTIRE THROUGHLINE.
HOOPER IS OBSESSED WITH KUBRICK.
AND THEN IT ALL MADE SENSE…
HOOPER DOESN’T KNOW FUCK ALL ABOUT WHAT KUBRICK WAS ACTUALLY DOING.
Nice Branch thread where a lot of experienced web developers – David Kaneda, Harry Roberts and many others debate the pros and cons of various CMS options. Interesting to see a lot of support for both Jekyll and Perch, two options I’ve generally overlooked on my own side CMS work.
SlashFilm‘s David Chen:
It is a fact that many people will leave this film thinking that torture, in some way, helped lead to the killing of Osama Bin Laden. That’s what political pundits are getting upset about — the fact that people think torture was effective at all. And if the pundits are correct in saying that the film sends people out of the theater with an understanding that torture was effective, then who is wrong? Filmgoers for not understanding what the film is trying to say? Or Bigelow for depicting torture irresponsibly? As usual, I think the answer lies somewhere in between.
I don’t fully agree with David’s stance here, but his writing and the evidence behind his arguments is excellent.