12.04.2011 By: adamcollison Under: Creative, CSS, Technical Comments: none
CSS3 Comes with a range of nifty new features allowing the modern I-Dev to push the boundaries of what is possible within website presentation. Although a lot of the CSS2/3 features may have been around a while it’s only recently that support has been good enough to warrant using some of the many new features.
One of my favourite tricks is the scalable background image, I’m sure you have already started to see this on a few sites and in time I think more and more people with look at adopting this approach. The below example is based on pure CSS, there are ways to include JavaScript to support older browsers but personally I think the idea of progressive enhancement is that a website should render better for users with capable browsers therefore encouraging users with older browsers to upgrade.
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06.04.2011 By: adamcollison Under: CSS, Soak Related, Technical Comments: none
CSS3 Child Element Detection… Is it possible?
I was recently asked by a fellow developer if there was a way to detect if a HTML object contains a certain element and alter the CSS styles depending on the element it contains.
The Scenario:
“You want to target all anchor elements containing a link to a pdf BUT if the link to the pdf contains an image you don’t want the same styling to apply:”
15.02.2011 By: alanofford Under: Creative, Industry News Comments: none
Even though I’m almost literally bursting with excitement about the advances in typography online, I’ve yet to start gushing about it on here mainly because, despite lots of interesting articles from designers across the world, it’s still early days for webfonts and it’ll be a while before we see them universal adopted.
27.01.2011 By: jimhavers Under: Industry News, Trends Comments: none
I’m not talking about Britain’s flailing economy but an emerging technology called Near Field Communication.
13.01.2011 By: adamcollison Under: Industry News, Technical, Trends Comments: 1
As technology marches on there is always something new to keep developers busy; it only feels like a couple of years ago it was the use of Flash in websites. This quickly changed with a trend towards Facebook integration and iPhone apps, now with ever increasing sales of smartphones it seems like the current trend is for mobile browsing. We always knew that mobile browsing would improve but I didn’t expect mobile browsers to evolve so quickly.
08.12.2010 By: alanofford Under: Creative, Just for fun, Soak Related Comments: none
Christmas may be just around the corner, but at Soak we’ve been feeling all festive for quite some time as we’ve been working on a Christmas themed mini-site called Where’s your dream Christmas? The idea is to allow people to plot their fantasy Christmas escape, free from screaming kids and dozing grandparents.
01.12.2010 By: alanofford Under: Just for fun, Soak Related Comments: none
Last week we all took a day off to take part in that dreaded workplace event, the Corporate Team Building day. Luckily working in a creative agency like ours means that instead of forced awkward pairings with that weird guy from the IT department (we’re all that guy in this company) we had an absolute blast, quite literally!
22.10.2010 By: alanofford Under: Soak Related Comments: none
For the past two weeks we’ve had Harley in the office on a work experience placement. Initially this led to much nostalgia amongst the Soak team about past experiences, Eugene spending a week typing phone numbers or Steve sanding down a desk (both true stories), but luckily we’re not as cruel and heartless as those employers and we set Harley a decent and pretty challenging project to do.
14.10.2010 By: ronansprake Under: Uncategorized Comments: none
12.10.2010 By: alanofford Under: Creative, Technical Comments: none
Everyone these days is into social media. Gone are the days when clients would um and ah about whether or not it was just another trendy marketing buzz-word. Now we often get requests from clients, sometimes half-way through a project, asking where we can position their Twitter feed. In fact, the term ‘social media’ may be coming close to jumping the shark, with developers like Ryan Waggoner washing their hands of developing apps for Facebook, and Twitter introducing a new site which aggregates the information from the third party apps that helped make Twitter so ubiquitous.
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