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New Mobile Web Site Style

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

redDolan-iphone
I just wanted to showcase the new Mobile Web site style for Red Dolan, the image shows what it looks like on the iPhone (I have also confirmed that it looks good on Blackberry Tour 9630). I am really excited about it as it is a new avenue for my skills, Mobile Web App Development.

I have to say that it really wasn’t hard either. I added a couple of declarations in the head of the document and created a mobile-specific style sheet. All in all it took a few hours to put together.

I am working on writing an article on it for Matters of Grey (MoG) here very soon!

I am curious to hear what you think about the new mobile design.

2/5/10 – I found out this morning that IE doesn’t like the way I did the mobile declarations and is basically stripping the styling all together. Stupid IE. Now I need to look into an alternative. Of course all modern and stable browsers render it correctly (Firefox 3, Safari 4, Chrome 4).

Guardians of Being pg14

Monday, January 11th, 2010

But to be aware of little, quiet things,
you need to be quiet inside.
A high degree of alertness is required.
Be still. Look. Listen.
Be present.

Guardians of Being pg12

Friday, January 8th, 2010

True happiness is found in simple,
seemingly unremarkable things.

Guardians Of Being by Eckhart Tolle

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Guardians Of Being
I received a book from my friend Andy, it was the newest book by Eckhart Tolle called Guardians of Being. It also has art in it from the creator of Mutts the comic short.

The book is full of messages of Zen, and is a great book for me to have at work. I feel that it will be a great reminder of the goals I am looking to achieve.

I was also thinking I would include excerpt from the book for those who wish to follow along with me.

PNG Background Color Change with CSS: Part 1

Friday, September 18th, 2009

PNGs are one of the most useful image types in the web design world, mostly because of their transparent ability. Most designers use them to create a drop shadow on an item and allow the background color surrounding the PNG to show through the shadow regardless of the background’s color. I began to reverse engineer a button thinking of what the shadows and reflections would look like without color. I set a color to the canvas layer and then began drawing gradients that were transparent over the top of it to creat the shadows and reflections I desired. Once I had a design that I liked, I put it into the HTML. That brought on this tutorial.

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