Reading Time: 2 minutesMy absolute favorite HTML5 attribute is “contenteditable”. It makes the contents of the element editable. It’s an incredibly simple feature that has tons of potential for your website.In fact, I’ve already seen it paired with localStorage or Web SQL APIs … Continue reading
Author: paceaux
An Open Letter to My Congressmen Regarding SOPA
Reading Time: 2 minutesBelow is the the message that I’ve emailed to each of my congressmen regarding SOPA. Hello congressmen Udall, Bennet, and Polis,
A CSS Form Feedback Boilerplate
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo in a follow-up to my post on layering the feedback with CSS, I’ve created a simple starting point with styling our forms: a form feedback boiler plate.
Why I use a Mac for building websites and Android for making phone calls
Reading Time: 4 minutesI hated Mac for years. Approximately 27 of them, if I recall. Then my wife twisted my arm and we bought an iMac. Then, two work-issued Macbooks later and I’ll admit that I like designing and developing with Apple’s OSX … Continue reading
Layering the feedback with CSS
Reading Time: 4 minutesFeedback Matters Long gone are the days where all we did was stare at a website and absorb content. We fill out contact forms, buy stuff, hold chat sessions, Tweet this and unlike that. These website interactions become more complex … Continue reading
Using HTML5’s Localstorage API for protecting forms
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of my new favorite features of HTML5 is the wicked awesome storage options. One of the first cool things I thought was to come up with a way to protect a user’s form information. Let’s pretend you been filling … Continue reading
HTML5 meter and range
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve really been interested recently in figuring out how to use HTML5 to create graphs and visualized data. I haven’t quite figured it out, but in the course of things, I stumbled upon the meter element and the range input. … Continue reading
My First Experiment(s) on a new guitar
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo, a few weeks ago, my wife in her infinite beauty and grace allowed me to buy an Ibanez 7-string guitar. That makes a total of seven guitars. My fingertips are happy. I got the 7-string so I could have an … Continue reading
The layers of Design
Reading Time: 4 minutessupport rapid updating of content, changes in Search Engine Marketing, and syndication of content. One of the core indicators of a well-architected CMS, in fact, is the separation of Design, Content, and Information Architecture. Put another way, the layout of a page is independent of the content on it, which is independent of the organization of pages. While there is much focus on getting the CMS to support the content strategies of now and the future, next to none goes into supporting the Brand strategies of the future.
Are New Pop-Ups the Old Flash Intros?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter a project was laid on me in the eleventh hour which had to be delivered in the twelfth, I found myself madly trying to educate myself on a foreign subject. The project and the subject doesn’t really matter. What mattered to me was collecting enough data for me to deliver it on time. Google performed beautifully; but a lot of the sites failed. Why? Pop-ups.
Of course, they aren’t the pop-ups of years past, they’re “modal windows” or “lightboxes”. You’ve all seen them. You visit a page, the background fades to grey, and a simple little window automagically springs into existence. Sometimes they asked me to register. Sometimes it was a sales pitch. The reason didn’t matter. I was there to get content. And now you’ve covered it up and forced me to click on something to get to it.