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:

1. bevelling and gradient color on the letter
2. gradient layer behind that, partially erased with the Color Wand
3. solid layer in front of that, and finally
4. pattern stamped layer in front of that, with Lighter Color blending mode.

Any normal 6-year-old girl would simply love it.

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.

Today I followed a tutorial on animating a navigation bar using jQuery. The results are here.

Experimenting with Type Effects in Illustrator

Using The Adobe Illustrator CS3 Wow! Book, I’ve experimented here with various type effects.

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.

That’s the resolution I’m keeping here. See the Smashing Magazine post for the details.

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.

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.

15 tools here

Excellent article on serving web content to mobile devices.

And an informative article on media queries.

Both links thanks to Georg.