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jQuery.proximity plugin

12 June 2009

As a spin-off of something I needed for a design I’m working on, I’ve built a jQuery plugin that will finds the distance and angle from the HTML elements to the cursor.

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Fun with background images - using transparency for masks

24 May 2009

This is just a quick article to talk about some of the things you can do with CSS and transparent background images. Most people probably know a how to use background images with techniques like Sliding Doors and CSS Sprites but using background images with transparency in conjunction with a background colour opens up another set of techniques for making nice web interfaces. I was using this at work and it raised an eyebrow from the developer I was working with so I thought it would be worth documenting. In many cases it can make building and maintaining the site easier as well as reducing the amount of images needed.

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Chasing AAA

20 February 2009

I was recently asked to rebuild a website that I hadn’t designed so that it would meet the WCAG 1 Level 3 (AAA) requirements while sticking to the original design. Here are some of the dilemmas and solutions I encountered trying to crow-bar accessibility back into the site.

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Quick tip: word-wrap and overflow-y for long links.

30 January 2009

A few years ago I was building a website for a car magazine and was supplied with designs (from a print designer) that had a column width that wouldn’t fit “Lamborghini” or “Koenigsegg” as headlines. Easy to fix with a hyphen on a print layout – not so easy to fix in a content managed website.

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