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Designing Solid Forms

Screenshot of form design blogpost

You’ve heard the saying, “Form over function”; but for your website visitors, form is a part of function. A web form is something that looks easy; but is difficult to get right. But here’s an excellent blogpost on “The 10

Posted in Web Design

Diving into Sublime Text

Screenshot of Sublime Text tutorial

“To know your code editor is to know the force”, Yoda would have said if he was a web developer. 🙂 But seriously, the faster you can wrangle code and data with you code editor, the more productive you’ll be

Posted in Apps

Designing City Flags

This week’s nugget is for inspiration and is a TEDTalks video featuring Roman Mars, host of the popular “99% Invisible” podcast. He shares flag design principles and highlights the good, bad, and ugly of city flags. You just might be

Posted in Inspiration

Wrangling Text with TextFlow

Screenshot of TextFlow

Mac only: Sometimes it’s a pain working with text and extracting data from it. It’s tedious and easy to make a typo or miss a snippet of data. Let’s do something about that.

Posted in Apps

Visualizing Rails App Components

Screenshot of Rails Machine preview

FirehoseProject: For the past couple of weeks I’ve been following lessons to build my Splurty app, but was feeling kinda lost because I wasn’t understanding how its different pieces fit together.

Posted in FirehoseProject

Typing Classical Music

Screen Shot of Touch Pianist web app

Fun: Instead of tapping on your computer keyboard, let’s mix things up and use it to play classical music, shall we?

Posted in Fun

CSS Centering Tool

Screenshot of How to Center in CSS webapp

Find your center. Breathe. Nope, we ain’t in a yoga studio. Just testing out this new CSS centering tool. 🙂

Posted in Other

Apology and Coding Bootcamp

Sad-looking dog lying on the floor

Sorry, homey. I failed to write blogposts for you for the last 2 Saturdays (thus, the sad dog pic). But there’s an interesting development.

Posted in Other

Make Animated Gradients with CSS Tool

Screenshot of CSS Gradient Animator website

Flash for animated background gradients?! We don’t need no stinking Flash. We have CSS3 and a nifty tool called CSS Gradient Animator that makes it a cinch.

Posted in Web Design

Sketch Tricks for Better Workflow

Screenshot of 11 Tips for Prototyping with Sketch blogpost

Mac only: Sketch is a great tool that’s become quite popular (also one of my fave apps). This week’s blip highlights a cool blogpost that shares meaty shortcuts and GIF’s to make working in Sketch even faster.

Posted in Apps

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This here fine blog is a collection of shiny things I've curated on my web travels. I'll be sharing a weekly nugget on—web design, marketing, cool tools, tech—and maybe a screencast or two.

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