Great Advice for People Starting out in Design
April 27th, 2011 — No Comments
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.
Absolutely spot on.
Read more...Ring a Bell with CSS Keyframe Animations
April 26th, 2011 — 16 Comments
Time to have some more fun with a CSS animation as I’m going to show you how to realistically animate a ringing bell. Following on from the 3D lightbox animation tutorial I thought it would be good to get into a little more detail on how to create a realistic animation.
Dribbble Goes Pro
April 26th, 2011 — No Comments
Dribbble, the popular screenshot posting site has now gone ‘pro’ with a paid service of, an extremely cheap, $19 a year with the ability to group shots into projects, post attachments and view advanced stats. I’ve already got my pro account. It always feels good supporting my favourite web services or apps and even only $19/year makes me feel like I’m helping out.
Read more...39 Ridiculous Things to do with CSS3 Box Shadows
April 26th, 2011 — No Comments
A fantastic display of what multiple box-shadows can do.
CSS3 vs. CSS: A Speed Benchmark
April 21st, 2011 — Comments Off
Trent Walton shows how CSS3 can benefit everyone involved.
Read more...CSS Animations Coming to FireFox
April 20th, 2011 — No Comments
David Baron explains how he has implemented CSS animations replicating WebKit’s implementation using the -moz prefix.
Read more...Feedback I get over the next few weeks will determine whether this implementation is good enough to ship in Firefox 5, or whether it needs bug fixes before it can ship (hopefully in Firefox 6, if I get the feedback soon enough).
Create a CSS3 Image Gallery with a 3D Lightbox Animation
April 19th, 2011 — 14 Comments
For the most part, the CSS3 tutorials and examples out there are a little dull. Of course there are some really great examples out there such as Benjamin de Cock’s CSS Playground but most others consist of a drop-shadow here and a few rounded corners there and nothing more. It’s time to start doing something more inspirational and useful at the same time.
