Archive for May, 2006

Magnifying Menu

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Working on a recent project, I was asked to create a “dock effect” (similar to the doc on a Mac) for a row of thumbnails. I hunted around for quite some time for a decent javascript for this and really came up empty handed. So I decided to use css to not exactly mimic this effect, but at least echo it. ;o) Here is what I came up with.

screenshot of magnifying menu

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Slashdot Redesign

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Slashdot has been accepting submissions for a redesign contest and yesterday I submitted my design.

screenshot of my slashdot redesign effort

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Two-Sided Expanding Headers

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

This week I was working on coding the home page of a new project. The first thing I noticed upon reviewing the psd (designed by the fabulous Hong Vo of Namaste Interactive) was that the header graphic was to extend in both directions indefinitely … but that it was different on the right and left sides. Huh … how to handle this? I couldn’t simply repeat one strip at the top of the page. I didn’t want to make one huge graphic with one pattern on the left side and one on the right and then center the image … that would work, but it would require a huge graphic! Any other solutions I initially thought of would create a horizontal scroll bar to be ever present. What to do?

screen shot of header extending

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