New Burton.com
I’m absolutely in love with the simplicity, incredible typography, and tons of small details that add so much to the experience. If you want to see the amount of “love” that went into the site check out the always following search and destroy eyes, meet the team, fly-to dealer locator, board finder, product lookbooks, and board product pages.
Designing the new Campaign Monitor iOS icons
Jesse Dodds gives us a look inside his creative process of creating Campaign Monitor‘s icons and discusses the value of sketching and pushing personal boundaries. The final result is amazing and its a really great read.
On jQuery & Large Applications
If you’re a front-end dev of any sort, this is a great read regardless if you use jQuery or not. Found via @jcroft who stated in his tweet that ‘if you are a front end dev you may need to start learning more than just the basics of some of these Javascript libraries. I agree with Jeff.
Anyways, read the article by Rebecca Murphey. It’s worth your time.
I think there’s actually a very good reason why we should, in fact, embrace the term “HTML5” as an overarching buzzword for this latest round of web standards and specifications. Our industry has proven on several occasions that we don’t get excited about new, interesting, and useful technologies and concepts until such a buzzword is in place.
– Jeff Croft, On the term “HTML5” (via 9-bits)
Diagonal CSS Sprites
Aaron Barker describes a technique for preventing neighbor images from appearing by placing the images in a sprite diagonally, rather than horizontally or vertically. The tradeoff is file size, but Aaron argues the diagonal arrangement is a more reliable approach should the original container change size.
ScriptSrc
Quickly copy the script path to the Google hosted code for the most popular Javascript libraries.
Glyphish has been running a Kickstarter project to help fund the creation of a new set of their icons at 2x Retina display sizes. Pledge $25 to get all of their new symbols, at Retina display size, as well as a special dingbat font (I just did!).
I don’t even do iphone design and I had to get these. GO get them!
Drupal Troubleshooting Tips
So I am no Drupal expert but I have run across a lot of time savers when working in Drupal, specifically theming.
Here are a list of things you should do if something in Drupal seems broken:
- Clear the Site Cache: http://yoursite.com/admin/settings/performance
- Clear Views Cache: http://yoursite.com/admin/build/views/tools
- Clear Browser Cache
- Check for updates: http://yoursite.com/admin/reports/updates
- *Check Permissions: http://yoursite.com/admin/user/permissions
Every time you log in it kicks you back to the home page
Clear your Cookies in the Browser, specifically delete your domain Cookies.
- http://support.mozilla.com/en-us/kb/clearing+private+data
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/en/11471.html
- http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95626
Using views, when you are logged in content looks different or is up to date but when you are logged out it is not. Clear your Views Cache
- Clear Views Cache: http://yoursite.com/admin/build/views/tools
If you have any more let me know, I will add to this list whenever I find something new.
