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• Compose to a Vertical Rhythm. Yummy structured design.

  Tuesday December 12, 2006

• The 9th Incarnation of ShaunInman.com. It’s like someone finally brought artistic expression to blogs. Love the color fading idea.

  Tuesday October 17, 2006

• Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design. On the nose.

  Thursday June 22, 2006

• Clearance // ShaunInman.com. It looks as if this could be a cure-all for most CSS positioning issues. Eric Lim: 1; Shaun Inman: 1.

  Monday May 22, 2006

With Internet Explorer 7 approaching release and all the web development that goes on these days, I would have thought that every CSS IE bug would have been documented by now. Yet I seem to have discovered a new one, although with my eccentric file organizing techniques I can see why nobody else had run across it yet.

Continue reading “CSS IE LImport Bug”

Holy crap! Jorge just told me that he saw my site on CSS Beauty, and sure enough it looks like I’m one of their featured sites. I’m a bit puzzled since I submitted my site almost two months ago, but regardless, welcome to everyone visiting for the first time.

It’s a bit humbling though, and kinda funny when I think everyone’s gonna come and see me trying to pick a fight with Shaun Inman and making fun of Jorge’s PDF Portfolio. Talk about getting caught off guard.

Btw, I noticed my site “usurped” vitamin on CSS Beauty’s featured sites list, which has Shaun Inman listed on the Advisory Board. That’s Eric Lim: 2; Shaun Inman: 0. ;-)

Looking for a Front-End Developer

As an addendum, and something I’ve been meaning to talk about anyway, I served as Juxt Interactive’s HTML/CSS dude for a year, and just recently left to join Go Farm in Pasadena. As such, Juxt is looking for someone to fill my spot as a Front-End Developer. If anyone’s interested (particularly visitors from CSS Beauty), they’re looking to hire.

• Mike Davidson: Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace. Bow down.

  Tuesday April 18, 2006

About a month ago I finally got around to playing with sIFR for a project I was working on. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, sIFR is a method of rendering text with Flash through the use of javascript, jointly developed by Shaun Inman (the “i” in sIFR) and Mike Davidson. It is essentially a workaround for the limitation of fonts that can be used on the web without having to create images for everything.

The tutorials were all fairly easy to follow and I ran into only minor problems on getting everything setup. But when it came time to getting the fonts to size correctly, sIFR was not going my way. IE seemed to be dealing with it okay, but Firefox wasn’t complying.

Continue reading “Eric Lim: 1; Shaun Inman: 0″

• Veerle 2.0. This design is amazing. Make sure to check out the comments.

  Wednesday March 1, 2006

• ZenGarage. I gotta start using this.

  Thursday February 16, 2006

It’s fun writing comments in my CSS code for the IE workarounds:

div.call_to_action {
   clear: left;
   height: 1%;	/* I hate IE with a passion */
   padding: 20px;
   background: #DFF0FD;
   }

Holy crap, I’ve succumbed to pressure and made a MySpace profile. A pretty sweet one too, if I do say so myself. One of my projects at work actually had me partaking in some “viral marketing” and creating MySpace profiles for some characters from a website we had made, and thus led to my “hacking” of their profiles to create something relatively design-y.

So add me as a friend if you’d like, and if anyone is interested in the stylesheet, just drop me a line and I’ll send it over.

Next step: add annoying music video that plays on load.

This is about a month late, but I didn’t have a need to visit gap.com until last week, only to find that their site had been completely overhauled.

No more tables. They’ve gone CSS and XHTML (Strict none the less) friendly, and little bits of AJAX are sprinkled about to make things very user-friendly. There isn’t anything all that groundbreaking about what they’re using; what’s worth getting excited over is the fact that a big company is willing to take the risk and use some very new and innovative technology which is very much going against the norm of most big sites on the web.

Check out the “Quicklook” feature in the product listings, and the way that size and color availability is shown with a quick hover. Job well done.

A couple of more in-depth reviews of the site at Speak Up > To Shop or Not To Shop and every breath death defying: Gap.com’s new, innovative QuickLook widgets

Ta-Da! A return to boredom’s roots with this new look, as I tried to keep things very plain and simple once again, although this time I was able to use my XHTML and CSS skills to get everything perfect and as close to standards-compliant as possible. Doing CSS full-time has really helped quite a bit, and I’m really happy with the way this one turned out.

I’m in the process of slowly converting all the “Morning Post” entries into quickies, and reserving the left column for actual entries and not just little links of the day. I found the three-column layout necessary to accomodate that and the obsessions. People will notice the outgoing links (wannabes and friends) have been reorganized once again.

Movable Type gave me a headache, as usual. The pages were all layed out perfectly, but when it came time to turning them into templates I ran into the typical obscure issues, in this case the showstopper involved comments and thus the preview page does not look as I would like. I’ll work on that one.

Everything but the search should be working though, so let me know your thoughts on the new look and if anything looks off.

Something I’ve been working on/off for the past couple of months, I finally did the launch last night of the redesigned Writer’s Block. The hardest part came in figuring out the right template tags to enter into my html code, and the archives are a sort of hack job at the current moment.

The search templates still haven’t been designed, and I think a comment preview template as well, but they’ll come in due time. My main emphasis here was to just get the text as readable as possible seeing as how that’s the point of the site. I wish I’d taken a screenshot of how the site looked before, but at the same time I’m glad I didn’t cause it seriously looked like crap.

Hopefully a redesign of my site should be down the line, but with my productivity levels, I wouldn’t be surprised to not see one until the summer.