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Product Placement
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TMBGareOK. The Official They Might Be Giants tumblr
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EXPECTATIONS
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
Mike Driver
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Cosmic Funnies
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Preventing text selection via CSS
It is super easy to use javascript and CSS to simulate a button (for, say, a slider navigation or fake page navigation).
But how do you get rid of that text selection when someone gets lazy with releasing the mouse? Use this css fool:
-webkit-user-select: none; -khtml-user-select: none; -moz-user-select: none; -o-user-select: none; user-select: none;
Optimus Primera is for sale!
I have decided it's time to upgrade to a bigger vehicle - so Primera must go!
Find out more about the prime ride here: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=372356943
Understanding Z-Index
Use this resource to help crack z-index layering of your HTML elements!
If you're building a fancy website with elements overlapping one and other, unless you understand z-index, you'll be pulling your hair out before you know it. I've certainly been down that path, but I found a resource that helps explain and illustrate how it works. Click here and crack z-index once and for all.
New, lightspeed NZ Server
Whoo-hoo! I have finally managed to get on to a NZ-based server and now jamesbarnsley.co.nz is running at lightspeed. Pow!
The apparent 'Predicter'
Earthquakes, hurricanes, floods - apparently this chap can predict these natural events. You be the judge: http://www.predictweather.com
Designer job available!
At PlasticStudio we're looking for a designer to come on board! We are a design agency specialising in website design - we also produce print and branding material. Call Richard or myself on 04 974 9197 to find out more.
Whoo - I have just finished teaching my second training course in Flash! In this one-week workshop we covered the basic principals behind animating for web banners. For such a short period of time I think we made amazing groundwork and I look forward to seeing their resulting work in the future.
CSS3 + HTML5 = Fun and games
At the Plastic Studio office we've got our hands on two nifty books from A Book Apart. They are awesomely written and give a very real-life-usable insight on the pros, cons and usage of the code behind CSS3 and HTML5. Both are very interesting looking updates and we've decided to build our next open-code site in it. Bring on the madness!
Order your books here: http://books.alistapart.com for a worthwhile investment.
I forgot...
...how damn nice it is to be on holiday. Beer, BBQs, family and crappy Christmas carols from 1988.
Gorillaz for Christmas!
The Gorillaz are releasing their latest album on Christmas Day! And in the lead up to the launch of their 4th album they have a festive advent calendar to get us all excited. Check it out at:Â http://gorillaz.com/xmas
And if you're really into advent calendars and free stuff (and live in Wellington, New Zealand) check the Go Wellington advent calendar:Â http://www.advent.wellingtonnz.com/
SilverStripe CMS
Being a web designer/developer from Wellington, and given the 'support local businesses' attitude, I thought it was necessary to get my head around the Wellington-based SilverStripe Content Management System.
Coming from Joomla!, I expected a module-driven, highly customisable CMS but was instead greeted with a simple interface that had clearly been designed for the end user/client.
With further investigation I began to appreciate the power of the 'Stripe and it's code-monkey orientation. Once you get your head around Object Oriented Programming, you can do almost anything. It's just that initial learning curve that is the killer.
So far, in business, it looks like a very promising CMS to present our client's websites with. It provides a very logical author backend so the client doesn't have to be re-trained to learn how to write his own site.
But, be warned, the official documentation is outdated and updates are sparse - an effort from the developers to promote their hosting service. The business world can be a gross place.
Find out more about the SilverStripe CMS at http://www.silverstripe.org
Element IDs cannot start with a number
I was recently building a jQuery-based slider for our upcoming website re-launch and needed to identify a series of elements numerically. Naturally I decided a number that auto-incremented would be ideal, so I build a testing stage to do just that.
After about 2 hours of testing and debugging to try find out why it wasnât working, I changed the numerical ids to âblock-oneâ, âblock-twoâ, etc. This solved everything! It turns out that CSS does not allow elementsâ ids to begin with a number. But classes are.
Who knew? Now you do. HTML ids cannot start with a number.
Source: StudioTalk
Photo by Guido Argentini
Supermarket dinners
9 minutes of epic awesome
Ever wondered what millions of tiny fish looked like?
Wonder no more - BP has the answer! Read some of the facts on the worst US oil spill in history.
If the trees fall, we fall.
WWF advertising campaign to illustrate the importance of trees in our world. A reasonably well-illustrated message, although I feel like the execution could be a little tighter. Because the message is strong enough, it could have been a pencil drawing!
Check out the full version here.