Fontello – icon fonts generator
January 26, 2013
design / tools / typography
Tool to build custom fonts with icons.
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The Scandal of the Evangelical Heart
January 25, 2013
But the questions that have weighed most heavily on me these past ten years have been questions not of the mind but of the heart, questions of conscience and empathy. It was not the so-called ‘scandal of the evangelical mind’ that rocked my faith; it was the scandal of the evangelical heart.
Carousels
January 23, 2013
Carousels, image rotators, sliders, featured content modules, whatever the hell you want to call them — they’re everywhere on the web. There’s a 95% chance you’ve created one. But despite being so omnipresent, little is said about our splashy little auto-rotating frenemies. Let’s fix that.
Cleaner output for wp_nav_menu() | WordPress | Matt Varone
January 22, 2013
If you are looking for a way to have a clean navigation list without the default classes and ids then the simplest solution I found is to extend the Walker class with a modified version of the Walker_Nav_Menu class.
What No One Told You About Z-Index — Philip Walton
January 16, 2013
The problem with z-index is that very few people understand how it really works. It’s not complicated, but it if you’ve never taken the time to read its specification, there are almost certainly crucial aspects that you’re completely unaware of.
The main element | Ian Devlin
January 15, 2013
The current state of the main element, as of January 2013. I imagine we’ll all be using this soon, and I’m happy about the ambiguity it will help get rid of.
“Reading Is Fundamental Design Flexibility,” an article by Dan Mall
January 15, 2013
More public documentation of the design process for “Reading is Fundamental.” Essentially, the first time they tried designing a series of full templates, indicating full page layouts at different sizes and so on. Most designers have done this. But in their case, it didn’t work and they went to a more elemental approach: designing specific parts, like the header, the footer, some interior page components, etc.
This is far more common among UX folks and larger sites than it is strictly visual designers and smaller projects, but I’m thrilled to see someone document it in this context. It’s often hard for me to explain why we should do it like this.
A site made for reading – Phanza
January 15, 2013
The Notre Dame Magazine website is a bit of a dream project for me. Content is priority. Mobile traffic is high. What really helped—the folks at the magazine recognized these things. They wanted a website that could supersede the print edition.
Web Advent 2012 / Node.js with Express.js in Business
January 14, 2013
A really quick intro to Node.js with Express.js. Covers things like how to use HTML as the templating language, for example.
Setting Active Navigation Elements When WordPress Doesn’t | Wptuts
January 13, 2013
WordPress does an excellent job highlighting current standard posts, pages or taxonomies when you include them in a navigation menu. But when you create a custom post or custom taxonomy everything goes wrong and the navigation stops highlighting the current page. Fortunately there is a workaround, you can manually specify which menu element highlights when you are showing custom content.