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 extra addition… light painting. Having never had a go of light painting before I was of course rubbish at it but it was great to have a go. If you happen to be in the area for the next event, and fancy having a relaxing & creative evening, then I really suggest coming along and joining in.

You can see the photos and video I took of the whole event over on Flickr [ http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlosthedesigner/sets/72157624261645611/ ]

More info:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=27022412230
http://www.compulsivesart.com/
http://www.telfordswarehousechester.com/

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 needed a way around the problem.

Write a quick bit of jQuery to apply to to the page and preview it in the browser. Then using firebug (firefox plugin), cmd/right click the document root element and click “copy HTML”. Just paste that into a new file and you now have the static HTML which the jQuery applied the styles to. Just remember to delete the jQuery code from the new doc and you are done.

This example adds the class “value” to all the third “td” elements in the document:

$(document).ready(function() {

var str = “:nth-child(3n)”;
$(“tr td” + str).addClass(‘value’);
        
});

Resources:
http://api.jquery.com/nth-child-selector/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2184862/saving-the-manipulated-dom-html-after-editing-it-with-firebug

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 HTML5 Player. Currently it is just a regular flash player on a XHTML page.

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.

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.

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 point giving up just because of a little hick-up… I just need to do 3 designs for week 10 to get back on track.

In the mean time you can join in or checkout what everyone else has done over on flickr.

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 skills sharp, learning new techniques and trying new ideas and of course, most importantly, it’s fun.

The design pictured is my addition to week 8.

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.

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 haven’t already done so then head on over to http://www.flickr.com/groups/52designs/ and check out the creative fun.

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 go to the original artists who you can find in said pool!