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Gordon Brander — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:40:19 +0000

It’s not often that we encourage you to stop using one of our products, but for IE6, we’ll make an exception: http://ie6countdown.com

IE6 is drawing his last few breaths. It’s over, people. Time to move forward.

Gordon Brander — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:06:11 +0000

50 and 50. So much talent, it’s stunning.

Gordon Brander — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:04:09 +0000

Quick tip: if you need to be able to quickly tell the difference between 8-bit and 24-bit .png images in a project, add a little note to the file extension:

my-pic.png // 24-bit png
my-pic.8bit.png // 8-bit png

This is especially useful when you have to support IE6 (which doesn’t support png-24 transparency) using either alternate image formats or a png-fix script:

nav.png // normal 24-bit navigation image
nav.8bit.png // matted 8-bit version for IE6 sans shadows

Gordon Brander — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:11:36 +0000

Creating a refractive glass effect in the web browser is a problem that has been kicking around in my head for a while now. While I have been busy thinking about it, this guy has gone and done it.

Gordon Brander — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:21:41 +0000

Looks like Tumblog functionality is set to drop in WordPress 3.1. Called “post formats“, the feature will provide an admin interface as well as an API for plugin and theme authors to hook in and add templates.

Nothing Tumblr hasn’t had for 3 years, but a solid addition to WordPress nonetheless.

Gordon Brander — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:49:17 +0000

Robbie Manson gives reasons to avoid single-line CSS. I used to be a strong believer in single-line CSS, but time and experience (plus lots of collaboration with other developers) have completely changed my coding style.

Gordon Brander — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:41:59 +0000

A clever trick for kerning type: turn it upside-down.

Gordon Brander — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:22:03 +0000

…Star Wars wasn’t a mystical, muse-favored event; an all-powerful force of unbridled inspiration. It puts its pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else.

But where it differs, is in having the talent, the vision and more importantly, the willingness to say: “This isn’t good enough. This isn’t what I’m looking for”, while keeping the larger picture in mind. It happened with Chewbacca, the Millennium Falcon (a story for another time) and even the scripts themselves. All one has to do is take bushbaby chewie, green-skinned Han, Cantwell’s first Millennium Falcon and the first drafts, and Star Wars would be all but forgotten today.

– Binary Bonsai, George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay

Gordon Brander — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:19:50 +0000

365psd posts a free .psd file every day. Most of them are gorgeous casualties of the design process, given a new home. Digging through someone else’s .psd file is a great way to learn technique.

Gordon Brander — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:41:27 +0000

So it happens: you want to incorporate a texture into a site design: wood grain, or perhaps the patina of a fine leather-bound book. No problem, you say, I’ll just find a stock photo of some leather, repeat-x, repeat-y, and… uh-oh. Look at those ugly seams! If only someone would create free, tillable patterns, providing both the .psd and .pat files!

If only.