Archive for the 'tutorial' Category

A List Apart: Articles: Supersize that Background, Please!

"With an advertising world keen to use every inch of a medium for brand or product experience, it is becoming increasingly popular to design websites with full-browser backgrounds. Using CSS, this can be achieved quite easily. Just drop a huge background image in a page with one line of code"
 

Tutorial: How to Build an HTML5 Video Player

Customizing the appearance of browser-based html5 video players.
 

Video for Everybody!

Straightforward method to serve HTML5 and automatically fall back to flash if necessary, uses no javascript.
 

Skout™

Links to sites useful to designers.
 

Type Tips Archive

Archive of type-related tips and tutorials.
 

How to draw a letter

 

Adding Events to Users Calendars

URL-based methods for adding events to Yahoo and Google (and MSN) calendars. Also includes link for quick documentation of creating and serving .ics files.
 

Studies in Pen Art

"Frequently, during that hot summer, Dennis would write a dozen cards which had been ordered; we would deliver them, and with the twenty-five cents thus obtained would buy a watermelon. Young Dennis was generous then; he is generous now."
 

What Is YOUR Best Photography Tip, Secret, Trick, Lesson, Technique, or Hack? | Ask Metafilter

On the internet, no one knows you're not an expert.
 

Word pronunciation in Icelandic (Íslenska)

Icelandic segment of Forvo, tagline: All the words in the world. Pronounced.
 

Rare Books on Calligraphy and Penmanship

Jaw dropping.