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Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Coding Calendars (again) – Lists and Sprites Oh My!

A few weeks ago I wrote a tutorial explaining how I coded a calendar for a client project at my day job (Brunello Creative). After some comments from readers I realized that wrapping a link around an h3 element wasnt semantic! eeeek! I also realized that I probably had a case of div-itis. So heres [...]

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Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Question of the Week #5 Design Education

Its time for question of the week #4! I’m going to post a short little audio clip asking you a question. Feel free to chime in and let me know what you think! I’d love to get a discussion going on in the comments! Listen!

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Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Tutorials Gone Wild…

It all started out with a harmless tutorial made by another designer. Which then prompted me to tweet this. I know I tend to rant about things on twitter from time to time, but I think I hit a nerve here. Some of the tutorials I have seen lately have been reducing design to a [...]

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Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Question Of The Week #4 Balance

Its time for question of the week #4! I’m going to post a short little audio clip asking you a question. Feel free to chime in and let me know what you think! I’d love to get a discussion going on in the comments! This weeks question: Listen!

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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Quick Tip #32 Aligning In Illustrator

In this quick tip I show you some tricks and tips of the align tools in illustrator. As always – leave a comment and let me know what you think! And don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes.

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Monday, May 18th, 2009

Coding Calendars For The Web

*update* I have re-done this tutorial with unordered lists and css sprites. Check it out here. Calendars are such an everyday object for most people – they are literally everywhere, in print, on our cell phones, computers and on the web. I recently had to design and code a calendar at work and learned a [...]

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