4
May
Light painting effect from a phone camera
Posted by Benjamin Reid in General
What you'll find in here
At the moment it's a little famished but there will be plenty to come, you can always subscribe to the RSS feed. So when you get the munchies for some delicious information you can head on over. I want this to grow into a flourishing design blog and a creative source for all sorts of things.
What's to come in the blog
It's not just a design blog; In here you'll be able to read about the ramblings of me, tips 'n' tricks for things like WordPress, CSS, PHP, Photoshop, some photography sessions and general madness. It's always good to get a bit of madness in.
I was down at the Brewery Tap last night watching Groove Cartel and one of their guitarists was using a guitar custom built by Vanquish Guitars, who I’m currently working quite close with in building my own. I tried to get some pictures using my iPhone but the lighting was to dull to get any [...]
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25
Apr
Get yourself a great looking custom Twitter badge
Posted by Benjamin Reid in CSS, Design, Web Design, jQuery
Twitter has absolutely exploded over the past few months, it’s all over the radio and TV; even some ‘celebrities’ can’t get enough of Twitter - yes I am refferring to Ashton Kutcher.
With a lot of social experiments like this you need and should want to make it your own, by using a custom Twitter badge. [...]
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21
Apr
iPhone GUI Photoshop template for test riding your designer backgrounds
Posted by Benjamin Reid in Design, Downloads
People have been customising just about every type of background they can get their designers mitts on for as long as I can remember, from your bog standard PC down to your favourite handheld device. One of my favourites to jazz up is the iPhones background, because it brings great personality to the front of your phone.
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19
Apr
The simple way to get equal column heights using CSS and jQuery
Posted by Benjamin Reid in CSS, jQuery
With the recent popularity of multiple column layouts, and constantly changing content that can alter the height of a column from minute to minute - it has become a bit of a mess trying to make everything look nice and balanced. So here’s how to use jQuery to make it real simple.
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Finally a day where the sun had come out to treat us, this chance I couldn’t miss! I headed out to Alwalton armed with my Droplets for their first photo session, I’d been waiting to do this since seeing the potential for taking some snaps with ‘em since viewing Gavin’s gallery of vinyl. As soon [...]
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Droplets you say?
If you have no clue as to what I’m talking about, here’s a little introduction - prepare to be hooked. Droplets are small ( “Standing just 2.5 inches tall” ) vinyl toys created by Gavin Strange ( Find him on Twitter or check out his website ). What makes Droplets stand out? Their [...]
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- An Introduction to the HTML5 Gamepad API is now on Activetuts+
- What I’d like see included in Coda, by Panic
- Free Photoshop layer style to get this sweet Twitter button
- Quick Tip #10 - How to get HTML5’s placeholder working across all browsers
- How to easily display a Facebook page’s feed on your website
- New additions to the ‘Social Media Bookmark +’ icon pack - inc’ Gowalla, Dribbble & Forrst
- A bit of water colour, a barrel full of talent from Emma Webs’ & you get the novel Alluro
