Archive for July, 2008
FlashPitt 2008
The cool folks at Refresh Pittsburgh have asked us to pass along the details about a Flash conference they’re hosting: Flashpitt is a one-day conference on Friday, October 10, 2008 for multimedia designers, developers, and artists. It’s Pittsburgh’s first major Flash-centric conference. National and international industry leaders will be present to inspire, educate, and challenge [...]
July 2008 Meetup Update
It’s official, this month’s Refresh meetup on July 31st will feature not one, but two great presentations. In an effort to cover a broader range of local web professionals we’re having a designer/developer doubleheader. Jason Beaird, author of The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, will kick things off with a 30 minute presentation titled Design [...]
Testing Paragraph Density
TypeTester is a very nifty website that allows you to test what different fonts look like in your browser. Beyond that, though, it allows you to compare the affect of different css effects on your paragraph density. Do I like impact 1.3em with 3px tracking? How does it look with 1px tracking, but .25em wordspacing? [...]
Designers: The Client’s Guide
I came across this nifty article via Jeff Croft‘s link blog. It overviews some of the things a client can do to make being a designer an enjoyable experience. Most of it is common sense for the designer types.. Trust us, focus on the design from the customer’s perspective, etc. The best part of the [...]
ID vs. Class
This is the kind of foundational CSS knowledge that I often assume everyone knows. Even though it’s a basic topic, Chris Coyier does an excellent job of explaining it in a way that won’t make you feel like a noob. IDs and Classes the “hooks” we need to build into markup to get our hands [...]
