I started writing my first article for HTML5Rocks.com the other day, and as I started working on it, I wanted to do something fun with it, something that folks could play with and enjoy, but still learn something. I found a really simple Pong implementation and decided that I’d re-write it in SVG, use the HTML5 audio tag and a few other little things for some extra fun. The article isn’t done yet, but I at least wanted to put the game up! Play Pong # The little “boink” noise is me. But it actually...
Five weeks ago, I packed up my office and made a quick tweet and then drove across 520, no longer a Microsoft employee. Microsoft was an awesome experience, and I’m super-proud to have been able to work with the great people that I did, and some really great products. But, after almost ten years (May 17th would have been my 10 year anniversary), I decided it was time to turn my life upside-down and try something completely different. Within a week, the movers showed up to pack my condo and help me move...
Time to continue my top ten list of web site pet peeves-and we’re in at number 8 with something that requires a little bit of balance, because for many sites, it’s a requirement, it’s the only way they really are able to provide the content that they do, for the price we pay… #8 Advertising Is A Reality, Sometimes # Somebody once said, “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” And the web is no different, someone has to pay for the content that we’re consuming online, whether it’s through me doing this in...
Continuing my series of top web design mistakes that are often made by web developers, lets dive into number 9. #9 Hansel & Gretel would need bread crumbs to find their way! # Have you ever visited a site where you’re not quite sure what you’re supposed to do once you land on the site? Or that as your surfing around, without using the back button in your browser, you can’t get back to where you were before? There are a couple of ways to look at this when you think about building navigation on your sites. ...
As promised, I’m going to start my series on (as my friend Sarah called it), “10 Things I Hate About Your Website”. And in reality, I admit to be guilty of many of these, so really I think I should call it “10 Things I Hate About My Websites”. This series is aimed at web developers who often find themselves having to do some design work, whether it’s just that little bit here and there, or you’re the only web person at your company this applies to you! I consider myself a web developer - not a web...
Water baths are useful for affecting the shadows or highlights, depening on how you look at it. Water baths retard the development of shadow detail, so it allows highlight detail to develop while the shadow detail is “put on pause”. During normal development, the paper is placed in the developer and agitated while in the developer, allowing fresh developer to replace areas where it has been exhausted due to the shadow development. (Note, it is important to think about this process on a very small scale.)...