By aprilholle | art forms, links of the week, viral marketing
Ever work with glitter and wonder if you’re ever going to get rid of the stuff? If so, you need this poster. Everyone is trying to do something viral for Christmas this year, Tattoo Santa is by far the best I’ve seen
Tags: christmas, craft supplies, funny posters, glitter, graphic-design, posters, santa, tattoo santa, typography, unique graphic design, viral marketing, viral marketing campaigns, viral-activity, viral-video, viral-videos
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS
Keep it Together Man! Always keep your styles in external style sheets when possible. Inline styles, while they seem handy when you just need to make a quick update, will spell trouble in the future when you need to make full design changes. They also make troubleshooting that much more difficult since you have to
Tags: Cascading-Style-Sheets, code organization, css, css selectors, css-continued, css-file, css-stylesheets, front-end-architect, front-end-development, naming-conventions, Print-Style-Sheets, style-sheets, stylesheet, stylesheets, typography
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, technology reviews, things to do
Come on over to Inza Coffee House tomorrow night to join me and the crew of Refresh Phoenix as we discuss Blueprint CSS. Blueprint is a CSS framework by Olav Bjorkoy, which “aims to cut down on your CSS development time.” Matt Heidemann & Matt Gist from Integrum Technologies will talk about their recent work
Tags: Blueprint-CSS, Cascading-Style-Sheets, Coffee, cross-browser, cross-browser-compliance, css, css-file, CSS-Framework, css-stylesheets, development-time, framework, front-end-development, good-website-design, Integrum-Technologies, Inza-Coffee, Inza-Coffee-House, Matt-Gist, Matt-Heidemann, naming-conventions, Olav-Bjorkoy, phoenix-web, Phoenix-web-events, Print-Style-Sheets, printing-websites, Refresh-Phoenix, Social-Networking, style-sheets, stylesheet, technology reviews, things to do, typography, web-community, Web-Design, web-event, web-site-design, web-workshops, website-design, websites, XHTML/CSS
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By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, flash, new idea!, new technologies, technology reviews
Recently we’ve completed four sites for Civigroup Companies. Within those sites you’ll notice several instances of sIFR (flash replacement text) inline with content. This is no easy task for sIFR text. While trying to accomplish this feat of magic, I spent quite a bit of time researching different aspects of sIFR and how it works
Tags: browser-type, Cascading-Style-Sheets, cross-browser, cross-browser-compliance, css, css-file, css-stylesheets, flash, flash-text-replacement, IE-6-compliance, new idea!, new technologies, safari, safari-compliance, sIFR, sIFR-3.0, sIFR-hacks, sIFR-inline, style-sheets, stylesheet, stylesheets, technology reviews, typography, using-sIFR, XHTML/CSS
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By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, things to do
Be design democratic! Check out LogoVoting.com to vote for your favorite 2008 Presidential Candidate logo. It’s interesting the number of different symbols and typography that are used to express a personal touch to the same type of communication. Also check out the variety and combinations of red, white, blue, stars, and American flags. I would tell
Tags: 2008-presidential-election, advertising & marketing, American-politics, brand-identity, branding, democratic-vote, font-types, fonts, identity, logo-voting, logos, political-identities, political-marketing, politics, presidential-candidate, presidential-candidates, presidential-election, things to do, typography
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