Design Details: Inset Text Shadows

As browsers like Safari and Firefox have started supporting the text-shadow property, I’ve found myself using it more and more to add subtle dimension to my text. The best way to do that is making your text look inset. There are only two techniques; and while...

Los Angeles Times

As a designer, I hope that if newspapers can be saved, that design will play a prominent role. Currently, many newspaper sites are dense, cluttered and so hard to read that it’s a wonder anybody goes to them (not to mention the cesspool that is the comments section of...

Jay & Gene speaking at RefreshColumbia

I’m reposting this from our local RefreshColumbia website since both Jay and I were given the opportunity to speak to the wonderful people that come to the Columbia (SC) Refresh meetups. There is some good stuff here from our good friends Jason Beaird...

All about the Blueprint CSS Framework

Blueprint is a project that has been alive and well since 2007, and as a current core contributor and community manager for the project, I am a big supporter of it. The framework provides a few building blocks that CSS gurus have been recommending for a long time; a...