This month I had the privilege to attend Zoe Rooney’s GDI PSD to HTML workshop. Lots of really good changes in my professional life right now, one of them being a new job in the city of Brotherly Love. I have been wrapping my head around Object Oriented CSS (here is  agreat intro from Smashing […]
Four Days of Bootstrap Love
I am currently working on a Rails app and was tired of looking at the default styling as I build it out … so I sat down to give it some Twitter Bootstrap style. To give  the app some css love, I added twitter  bootstrap to my Gemfile and ran bundle install. It took me […]
Aspect Ratio in Responsive Design – Width and Height Challenges in Adapting a Fixed-Width Layout
This is the third of a series of blog posts in which I have tried to journal my steps and processes in converting some older fixed-width sites to responsive layouts. Responsive version of Guide to PA Elections: http://www.cassandraking.net/ demos/responsive/election/ Older fixed width site of Guide to PA Elections: http://law.widener.edu/election/2007/ If you are reading this […]
Get ‘RESPONSIVE’ In a Few Short CSS Codechanges: Give It A Try!
This is a followup to my previous post Learning how to be Responsible & Responsive is Fun!. With this quick ‘Site Makeover’ I wanted to demonstrate that in a few worthwhile hours of your time, you can take  older, non-responsive sites and make them easily accessible to  modern viewports. BEFORE and AFTER (Visit the […]
Learning how to be Responsible & Responsive is Fun!
With the rise of both very large mega desktop screens and smaller portable devices, we as developers have a RESPONSIBILITY to serve up sites that display properly no matter what the device or context. With that in mind, I recently started diving into responsive web design. (Visit my Responsive VetClinic Demo site here) Â Initially I […]
iThis. MyThis. Th.s. Stupid Web 2-point-Oh Tricks.
iPod. iMac. iPhone. iGadget. You can even create your very own iName. mySpace. myAOL. myMSN. myWebspace. myWay. What is going on? We give an extra vowel (iVillage), then we take away another … wis.dm. flickr. or, even combine both the give and the take –> iStalkr. and what’s with the extra ‘o’? hoooka? zooomr? my, […]
Me Gusta La Red 2.0
Me encanta en lenguaje de la red en espanol. Las tablas no se usan para maquetear. Se usan las hojas de estilo en cascada. Oye, pero eso si que suena elegantisimo. Estoy inspirada hoy, y, les presento 3 logos… jugando ando. Mira, flote esos logos hacia la izquierda esta vez.