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Reinvention and Building Ourselves — Build 2012
I’ve posted a writeup of Build conference 2012 on ubelly. Oddly, I’ve not found any other writeups from Build, which may be because (as I mention in my post) the talks weren’t those sound-bite talks that give quick take away tips.
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Insites Xmas Special—Integrity and Polarity
Yesterday was Insites: The Xmas Special, a brilliant event put on by the lovely Keir Whitaker and Elliot Jay Stocks. After being well fed, everybody in the room gave a six minute(ish) talk about something they’ve learned in 2012.
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display: none;
Or The things you think are common knowledge but really they aren’t. I was on the ShopTalk show a few weeks ago, and a few people have asked me what I meant when I said “display: none; naughties.
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SMACSS –; Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS
I bought Jonathan Snook’s Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS five months ago and, embarrassingly, I’ve only just read it. As a “flexible guide to developing sites small and large”, it’s fantastic.
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My favourite apps—fit for purpose
After sitting and waiting for Photoshop to open for five minutes, just to edit an old file, I went off on a bit of a rant about Adobe software.
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CreativeJS for non-coders workshop with Seb Lee-Delisle
Programming block I’m a bit scared of JavaScript. Since I started learning front-end development about seven years ago, I’ve pretty much stayed away from it.
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Grids, flexibility and responsiveness
First steps: choosing a typeface The first step in my grid design was to choose an appropriate typeface. I knew this would be everything on such a text-heavy site, and I really struggled because, as with all the elements on my personal site, I wanted it to reflect “me”.
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Really, a redesign? This can’t be real…
It’s about time… So finally I’ve redesigned my website. It’s been about three and a half years since the last version of laurakalbag.
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A Practical Guide to Designing with Data
Another ubelly post from me, this time a review. Much like my other reviews of books on this blog, just in another location!
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Six months of the Fitbit (and the new Fitbit Aria)
Skip to the main review! The backstory I’m a fit and healthy person. Probably not your typical work-from-home desk-based screen-faced designer.
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