You’ve no doubt been following our 2012 SitePoint Christmas Sale — a winterland-themed design extravaganza (desktop version only). Elements on screen that have unfolded day by day have included ice skaters to a dancing bear to leaping fish to a smoking locomotive — and there’s plenty…
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Limitation breeds creativity. The CSS1k Project has embraced this idea and used it to set a challenge for front-end developers. At a time when even Google’s famously no-frills home page CSS is edging towards 40,000 CSS characters, CSS1k asks us to do something cool with just 1024.
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A few years back, I saw a great episode of Mythbusters, where they tested the idea of the Chinese water torture. One by one, Adam, Kari, Scotty and Tory were each firmly secured before being subjected to the slow, rhythmic beat of droplets…
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So, you’ve come up with a HTML email design you’re happy with. Woo! Before you start mailing it out, you’re going to need to test it. There are so many email web apps and desktop clients out there with differing requirements, and…
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While there have been some great recent discussions on the subject of web gradients — John Allsop’s recent article gives the perfect overview — most focus on using CSS3, while occasionally patching a hole here and there with dab of SVG.. Could it be we’re looking at it the wrong way?
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It’s been a month of inspired ideas and clever execution but the time has come to announce the official winner of Design Festival’s Cicada Project iPad Giveaway.
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It was just over three weeks ago that we launched the Cicada Project, our community-driven gallery for backgrounds exploring the cicada principle. The idea was to push the idea to find out what was possible — while juicing up the competition with an iPad 2 giveaway. Here’s the current state of play.
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Two weeks ago we showed you a way to use clever numbers to make practically endless tiling backgrounds. The article got an astonishing response, and now we want to give the DesignFestival and Design View newsletter readership the chance to submit their own tiling combinations with a chance to win an iPad 2!
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What does the life cycle of periodical cicadas, Euclidean number theory and web design have on common? Read on and all will be revealed.
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Step out of the designer’s Jurassic period and take a walk with Alex to the tile-free land of seamless textures.
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