There are no images above, nothing but css (half of it vendor propriety, sadly), and this was entirely created with primary colors: Red Yellow and Blue. Why? Because I wanted to see how well you could create other colors using additive color mixing methods like you would with paint through overlayed rgba semi-transparent colors. A standard color wheel with secondary and tertiary colors was the obvious test. This works in Firefox, webkit browsers and even, yes, Internet Explorer. Well, the curved edge that makes it a circle doesn’t work in IE. But the semi-transparent color overlays to simulate additive color mixing that I was wondering about? Works like a charm! (more…)
Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
Color Wheels with only CSS3 and Primary Colors
Sunday, July 11th, 2010In Search of Bolder Type and a Font Outline
Thursday, May 27th, 2010I have always been annoyed by how not-bold the standard browser-safe system fonts are at smaller font sizes. And even now, calling in a bolder typeface using @font-face is not always a viable option (like a project I’m working on right now). I need heavier type than Verdana bold, and it needs an outline to make it stand out against its background, it can’t have any extra markup, and it has to be cross browser compatible. (more…)
jQuery/CSS3 gallery update
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010Well, I saw an interesting demo of a draggable css3/jquery-based gallery a couple weeks ago and I’ve been playing with it to see if it was possible to integrate it with wordpress. I’m in the process of writing a tutorial about how to add it to your own wordpress site, but I noticed today that it’s throwing a javascript error in IE (I know, errors in IE, what a shocker). I’ll figure that out and get some decent graphics to replace the plain white border that’s there now, and then you can look for a new tutorial on how to implement it on any wordpress site.
Usability seminar…
Friday, May 14th, 2010Just gave a seminar on usability for non-engineers. It seemed to go over well. I can’t port it to the site, unfortunately, due to the same restrictive security policies that cover everything else I’m doing these days, but I’m considering a book or maybe just a series of posts: Usability for Business People.
Resume – Paul Lathrop
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
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