Lucas Cobb

CSS Selectors

David — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:52:43 +0000

The key lies in using CSS selectors efficiently to maximize performance and minimize load time, though this efficient usage matters only for website with thousands of DOM elements and the speed is the key for the existence in the market.

2013 Font Trends

David — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:15:03 +0000

After conducting some research and seeing what fonts are our top sellers, I compiled a list of currently trending fonts including: Grunge Fonts, Big and Bold, Handwritten Fonts, Re-Made Classic & Vintage Fonts & Stencil Fonts.

WordPress Too Slow?

David — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:05:15 +0000

Speed it up with these five tips from pelfusion.

CSS Grid

David — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:45:53 +0000

The future of the CSS layout!

So you want to learn hand lettering?

David — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:44:34 +0000

Tips & Tricks on getting started with hand lettering via Sean Wes.

Media Queries are a Hack

David — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:22:08 +0000

The big buzzwords in CSS these days are “modular” and “responsive”—and for good reasons. But we’re still trying to achieve those goals with the wrong tool: Media Queries. What we actually need is a tool that doesn’t exist yet: Element Queries.

TIL some Photoshop tricks

David — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:22:32 +0000

TIL you can right-click with the eyedropper tool in Photoshop to get a “Copy Color’s Hex Code” option. – Check out the screenshot
By holding shift you can also sample up to 4 points at a time with the eyedropper tool. – Check out the screenshot
Pressing Shift + TAB will hide all panels (Layers, Channels,…) except the toolbar.

Windows of New York

David — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:21:46 +0000

A weekly illustrated atlas of beautiful window scapes across New York.

The Flat Build

David — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:09:23 +0000

The process of coding a static website in HTML & CSS without worrying about complete functionality or CMS integration.

Use Gravatar as your Favicon

David — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:52:34 +0000

An interesting little factoid that I stumbled upon fiddling around with Favicons is you can use the get_avatar built-in function to get your gravatar as a favicon on your WordPress blog. Please note this will only work if your WordPress blog admin email and gravatar email are the same and is achieved simply by adding this simple line of code in your theme’s header.php file in the section.

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