9 Awesome HTML5 Audio and Video Tutorials

November 26th, 2011 by Patrick Cox | 1 Comment

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Trying to learn HTML5? Wanna embed your videos and audio using HTML5? Check out these great tutorials on how to use HTML5 to embed your videos. Each tutorial goes through the simple HTML5 code necessary and how to create fall backs for older browsers that don’t use HTML5. Happy embedding. 1 – Using HTML5 Video Read ★ More


Be More Creative through Design Constraints

November 1st, 2011 by Patrick Cox | No Comments

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My article last week featured in the mighty Codrops.com was all about design constraints and how they truly allow us to be more creative — they aren’t nearly as restrictive as we think. Freedom in design is a great thing, it allows us to explore new ideas and to test uncharted waters. However, when you Read ★ More


The Web in Black and Orange: Halloween Inspiration

October 31st, 2011 by Ryan Stone | No Comments

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I thought since today is Halloween that it would only be fitting to put together a collection of web designs with black, orange or black & orange color schemes for your Halloween inspiration. Black is a fairly common color for the web, mainly because it’s pretty universal and presents well on display. But orange can Read ★ More


Why Choose WordPress?

October 29th, 2011 by Paddy O'Neill | 8 Comments

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WordPress, the new industry standard? For a considerable amount of time now, WordPress.org has been the platform of choice for most of the World’s bloggers; challenged only by free publishing platforms like Blogger. However, in more recent times WordPress is beginning to make it’s mark on web design, for both blogs and full website installations; Read ★ More


Clever, Amazing or Controversial Street Art for Your Inspiration

October 13th, 2011 by Patrick Cox | 2 Comments

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I love street art. It can be very inspirational for both design projects and life in general. Here is a collection of some of my favorite creative street art installations and works from New York to Madrid to Tehran. Enjoy.


Snippet O’ the Week: Add Custom Post Type to Feed in WordPress

September 14th, 2011 by Patrick Cox | 1 Comment

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So you designed a slick WordPress theme for a client, you set up WordPress for them and installed all the plugins and you have even gone the extra mile and designed a sweet video player and built a new custom content type for them. Then, about a month later you get a call that says Read ★ More


NFL Website Power Rankings 2011

September 12th, 2011 by Patrick Cox | 1 Comment

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To kick off the NFL season I decided I would take a peak at all 32 of the teams websites and see which sites are well designed and which sites are just plain awful. In the sporting tradition I have “power” ranked them from 32 to 1 – 1 being the best of the best. Read ★ More


Kick Ass Site of the Week: Visual News

September 9th, 2011 by Patrick Cox | No Comments

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Need some design inspiration? Need a good chuckle? Check out this weeks Kick Ass Site of the Week, VisualNews.com. Visual News.com is great site for all things design, so its a great blog for finding inspiration in all areas of design, from web to print. If you are into inforgraphics, Visual News is for you. Read ★ More


Design Inspiration – Creative 404 Pages

September 8th, 2011 by Paddy O'Neill | 1 Comment

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There’s nothing more off-putting than visiting a website only to find a page missing and in it’s place a useless piece of text telling you what you already know! For this reason it’s always good practice to ensure your site has a properly structured 404 page, including information on how the user can get to Read ★ More