Fish Can't Whistle

For Christmas I received Handcrafted CSS by DAN CEDERHOLM. The book is all about “progressive enrichment”, which is refreshing and interesting. The first chapter deals with “what happens if?” which is all about designing and developing sites that will work no matter what happens. The second chapter deals with rounded corners. This is something that can be interpreted by Mozilla and Webkit browsers.

To use in Mozilla based browsers the following code is used -

 -moz-border-radius: 8px;

And for webkit based browsers (Safari etc) -

-webkit-border-radius: 8px;

Eventually CSS 3 properties will be finalised and all (although you can expect problems with ie) browsers will support it. The sytax will probably be -

border-radius: 8px;

See the proposed recommendations for background and border properties in CSS 3 here.

I have already started using border radius properties for a site I recently developed for a band called Esteban. Check out the Esteban site here. The site is a module based site (various boxes all over the front page with all sorts of social networking and interesting links, items and posts) and it is a nice touch to have the modules rounded where available.

Obviously browsers that don’t yet support border radius will simply ignore the properties and render square border corners. Of course there are numerous ways to implement rounded corners with javascript and cleverly placed images etc but that’s a whole different post.

For now i am happy with using rounded corners where available whilst also including the border-radius property for the future.

What do you think about using CSS 3 before it is properly implemented in all browsers?

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Oct
2009

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Lisacharringtonwilden.com

On 19, Oct 2009 | No Comments | In Uncategorized | By Andy

Lisa Charrington-Wilden is a super talented artist who works with primarily charcoal, pencil, chalk and conti but is pretty good with most drawing mediums.

She needed a site that accurately reflected herself and her art whilst also being an online canvas for here work. After all the important thing here is her artwork, not ours!

A lovely little site that works well at accentuating beautiful artwork.

Visit lisacharringtonwilden.com by clicking here!

21

Jun
2009

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Every Free WordPress Theme Ever!

On 21, Jun 2009 | 2 Comments | In Uncategorized | By Andy

We think that WordPress, as you may have guessed, is brilliant. We develop bespoke themes for it but for some people it isn’t practical to pay for a custom design. But don’t fear! There are thousands of free WordPress themes that range from practical to beautiful to absolutely mind blowing!

What i have tried to do here is provide a comprehensive list of where to find every WordPress theme around.

Enjoy and please link in the comments to anything i have missed!

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Jun
2009

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Twitter Gravatar Intergration

On 13, Jun 2009 | No Comments | In Uncategorized | By Andy

Comments are so often over looked in wordpress blogs. Its easy to just add the comments.php file and forget about it. But there’s so much you can do with them!

One cool thing you can do is use your readers twitter profile picture in their comments. This is done by seeing if the email address used is associated with a twitter account. If one is found it is used and if not the email address is looked up on gravatar and if one is still not found then a fall back picture (that you specify) is used.

Click here to read the full article on the plugin developed specially for smashing magazine.

PLEASE NOTE!

Due to Twitter changing the way it works, this plugin no longer fully works. However I still use it on this site as it will still pick up Gravatar images.

Maybe one day I’ll look in to finding a solution so we can have this functionality back.

I’ll let you know.

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