A jQuery powered HTML5 navigation menu
I was recently asked to knock-up a semantically simple (but elegant) navigation bar for a new open-source project I’ve become involved with (more on that soon!). Having done so with a reasonable amount of success, I thought I would also share it here for everyone else to use as well!
Snippets in Notepad++
I’m a massive fan of Notepad++, the lightweight Windows based text editor, it has a tiny footprint but packs enough features to make it my go-to Windows text editor. Up until quite recently however, I’d been missing snippets, but not any more.
A set of simple CSS3 buttons
Having searched around for a while, looking for a set of CSS3 ‘buttons’ and not finding anything exactly right for my needs, I decided to create a set from scratch. Being the generous kind of bloke I am, I though that I’d share them here in case any other frustrated web workers are in desperate need of a button fix.
The Client Questionaire
Getting the most out of that first client meeting is incredibly important. Finding and isolating the core issues quickly can mean a final product that meets and exceeds all of a clients expectations. In this post, I have included a great primer of a client questionnaire; covering lots of ground around the logistical and creative direction a project should take.
Quick links: ‘Multicolr’ image search and Git Immersion
Couple of really great quick links I’m sharing today: one’s a really cool tool that can help you find images based on a certain colour palette; the other’s a great beginners tutorial for the Git version control system.