So perhaps you’ve heard of NFT’s. It was hard to avoid headlines about Beeple making millions on NFT’s and if you track anyone in the design space you’re probably getting bombarded with announcements of their…
Category: web design
Fixed Canvas Backgrounds
I’ve talked a bit about separating our semantic and non-semantic content within websites. We can take our rich non-semantic content and throw it onto a canvas. This provides a number of benefits, cleaning up our…
Web Layers: Semantics & Graphics
In the beginning the web was simply a semantic layer. It was comprised entirely of text and markup. As it evolved more layout and graphics capabilities were added but comprised little more than adding images.…
Richer Web Experiences
An article of mine was recently published in Web Designer Depot, discussing a few topics I’ve been covering in recent talks about how to make richer web experiences. It’s just a brief overview, but you…
swfaddress and google analytics
Insert your normal google analytics code: and your swfaddress javascript with minor additions for the analytics: and there you go, if you know how to use swfaddress then you know how to track your flash…
SVG Animation with Snap
Adobe recently open sourced Snap, a javascript library for manipulating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) on the web. The library was written by Dmitry Baranovskiy, who wrote the popular Raphaël library for vector graphics on the…
HTML5 Dev Conf “Web + Wow”
I spoke at HTML5DevConf last October. My talk was called “Web + Wow” and explored the web as rich medium and different techniques people can use for some interesting effects. You can find the synopsis…
Canvas Blend Modes in Safari on Desktop and iOS7
Blend Modes have probably been one of the most highly requested features in canvas. Canvas is great for gaming and rich visual effects down to the pixel level, and though we can do shaders and…
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Digital Reading Experiences
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to speak at W3Conf in San Francisco this year. My talk was about reading experiences on the web, ways we can improve them and where we see this…
flash cs4 loading font from external swf
Here is a pretty basic overview of how to load fonts from a .swf, great for sites that have many languages, particularly asian characters, where you may need to specify characters or fonts while not…