This is just a brief summary of some of the Content Management Systems I've used and what they're good at/bad at, to hopefully help you make better decisions when deciding how to go about your…
Category: web design
swfaddress 2.3 problems: IE7 not loading parameters/not updating URL
I have since reverted to using swfaddress 2.2, I should note I am also using swfobject 2.2. First the confusion began when I noticed in the src folder when downloading the swfaddress package there are…
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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…
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…
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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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…
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…