28 February, 2008 |
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web design, Clearleft | 2 Comments
Clearleft is creating a desktop application for web designers. We put the holding page live at Silverbackapp.com last week.
There was no fanfare - I just told a few friends to check it out, but the word spread like wildfire and within a day it had received 25,000 visitors!
The response was overwhelming and unexpected - not just from web designers excited to find out more about our application, but also from those eager to find out how the clever pseudo-3D background effect works (this effect is only visible as you resize the browser window).
In response to their requests, Vitamin have now published my tutorial How to recreate Silverback’s Parallax. Go read it! But if you don’t, feel free to join the other people who haven’t read the article either, but are still leaving comments at the end of it.
11 December, 2007 |
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journal, videoclips | 2 Comments
Our cats are away on holiday for a few weeks while we pack and move house. As cat owners around the world will probably empathise, this excellent animation from Tandem Films perfectly captures mornings with Fizz.
Click here to watch the clip on YouTube
5 December, 2007 |
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My wife has been busy crafting in the lead-up to Christmas, making all sorts of goodies as gifts - she’s really amazingly talented and creative!
One idea which has become a bit of a hit this year are the vintage Ladybird books which she’s been rescuing from charity shops, dissecting, and binding with notepaper to create these unique retro Ladybird book notebooks. As well as a handy place to write your thoughts, the note paper is inter-leaved with the original Ladybird book pages for added nostalgia.
Each one is painstakingly handmade from the original second-hand Ladybird book, and finished with an appropriately coloured length of elastic to hold it shut and keep your secrets safe inside.
These Ladybird book notebooks make ideal Christmas presents, and best of all they’re available today from stupidgorgeous.co.uk!
Update: Even Vintage Ladybird books themselves are fans! They added Relly as a friend when she posted pictures of the notebooks to the Vintage Ladybird Books Flickr group.
