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DSED – Day 55
Well, folks, this Design Something Every Day endeavor has fallen by the wayside in favor of the Circadian Letters over on my calligraphy blog.
I did play around this evening with various gaudy and low-class effects on this Circadian Letter (see the original image here). Let’s see:
- bevelling and gradient color on the letter
- gradient layer behind that, partially erased with the Color Wand
- solid layer in front of that, and finally
- pattern stamped layer in front of that, with Lighter Color blending mode.
Any normal 6-year-old girl would simply love it.
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DSED – Day 8
I have been working every day, but so far have nothing to show for days 4-7. Today, though, I experimented with some behavioral css rules: scale, translate, and rotate. The results are here.
I was looking at this recent article on css behaviors at Smashing Magazine.
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DSED – Day 3
Today I followed a tutorial on animating a navigation bar using jQuery. The results are here.
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DSED – Day 2
Experimenting with Type Effects in Illustrator
Using The Adobe Illustrator CS3 Wow! Book, I’ve experimented here with various type effects.
Design Something Every Day – Day 1
On this blog, I’ll be going through tutorials I’ve been meaning to try. Here’s Day 1, a day late.
An Illustrator tutorial
The tutorial I followed is here. On my other blog, I’m designing a letter a day: Circadian Characters.
New Year’s Resolution – Design Something Every Day
That’s the resolution I’m keeping here. See the Smashing Magazine post for the details.
Stand-alone browsers for Windows — yes, Vista too
Looking at web design in multiple browsers has always been problematic. Xenocode provides testing across browslerland for PCs, even for Vista. This is awesome, since this solution, which I used to use, breaks in Vista. Macs already have something for testing across browslerland, I’ve read.
I see that Microsoft has announced multiple IE testing software — via Web Design Depot.
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Common CSS procedures you won’t get from the CSS rules
- Make a container expand to hold its floated items:
- add “overflow: auto:” to the container div – it’s the cleanest way to clear floats, which makes the container expand to hold them.
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