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Doodle planet June 2010

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Another month has passed and last Thursday saw another fantastic doodle planet. Doodle planet is all about chilling out, with a beer or two and having a bit of a doodle. It takes place the last Thursday of most months in Telford’s warehouse, Chester. The setup this month was great as usual, but with an [...]

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jQuery + Firebug = reduced repetitive work

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Have you ever had a page that needed styles applying to certain elements again and again (and again) in some sort of pattern. The finished page could have no js either. I just had a long page of tables that the 3rd column had to be formatted differently and it was a pain so I [...]

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HTML 5 Video – Flash Fallback

Saturday, March 13, 2010

I am nearing completion of the flash player that I have been developing this week. You can take a look at it in my development sandpit. This is the fall back player for browsers such as ie that don’t currently support HTML5 Video tags. The next part of this project will extend to include the [...]

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52 Designs – Week 11

Friday, March 12, 2010

Week 11 is here. Only another 41designs or drawings to go. In case you haven’t figured it out already it’s all about designing every week. You can see what’s been added or join in yourself over on flickr. Here is my design for this week on Flickr.

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Flash Player Control Bar

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Part of creating a HTML5 Video player requires a fall back option for the likes of ie, so a flash player is the option. This is the design for the control panel on the flash player. The source and instructions for the flash player will follow on completion.

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52 Designs – Week 10

Friday, March 5, 2010

Whoh! It’s week 10 of designing one piece a week, every week, all year. The more observant of you may have noticed that I didn’t do a design last week or the week before, which defeats the philosophy of the whole 52 Designs. Epic Fail? No! It’s not over yet though and there is no [...]

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52 Designs – Week 9

Friday, February 26, 2010

Week 9 begins and that means we are over 15% through the 52 Designs. There are almost 50 designs in there already. I am still thrilled by the response from everyone and the fantastic designs that have been added to the group on flickr. Just make a design every week. It’s great for keeping your [...]

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52 Designs – Week 8

Friday, February 19, 2010

Week 8 Has begun so get your creative hat on and head on over http://www.flickr.com/groups/52designs/. 52 Designs is about creating a design a week (and hopefully every week) to keep skills from getting rusty, trying out new ideas, building a portfolio, just for fun or all of the above.

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52 Designs – Week 6

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Week 6 of 52 Designs is here which means we are over 10% the way through the year! 52 Designs is about creating a design a week and now has 15 artists involved with and ever increasing number of designs. You can create whatever design you want and what ever medium you choose. If you [...]

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52 Designs Gallery – January

Monday, January 25, 2010

52 Designs is about designing something every week of the year. Here is a quick look at all the images from January for the 52 Designs pool on Flickr. Click on the images for a bigger/better view. If you would like to join in then head over to the pool on Flickr. All image credits [...]

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52 Designs – Week 4

Friday, January 22, 2010

Wow can you believe it’s week 4 already! The 52 Designs Flickr group [ http://www.flickr.com/groups/52designs/ ] already has loads of images and people involved making some brilliant images. I’m looking forward to another great week. In case you missed it, 52 Designs is a creative project to create a new design every week. Anything goes [...]

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52 Designs – Week 3

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Yes week 3 is here already… There have been some amazing additions to the group pool on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/groups/52designs/) and I hope this week brings many more. Keep up the great work guys and gals. There are now a few guidelines as to what is allowed as some people weren’t sure if things like doodles [...]

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52 Designs – Week 2

Sunday, January 10, 2010

52 designs is an ongoing project to create 52 designs, 1 for each week of the year. It was conceived as a project for myself to keep a steady flow of creativity flowing going through the year but has since evolved into a more social project (hosted on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/52designs/). The group had some great [...]

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52 Designs

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

A fun project for 2010. The aim is to create 1 design a week, every week of the year, resulting in 52 images. The term design is a very loose one for this project so the design can be on anything, paper, canvas, digital and can be anything from a doodle or illustration to a [...]

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