You’ve probably noticed a very popular trend recently of vintage styled logos, or “hipster” logos. Here’s a quick tutorial to craft up some of your own with resources and inspiration to inspire your hipster creation. For this tutorial I’ll be using the phrase “Visit the Sea, Travel Authentically”.
Automate Your Home Lights with SmartThings
Take control of your home with a SmartThings hub, I recently bought one and now I’m addicted to adding more and more to my home automation setup. If you search “z-wave” on Amazon you’ll find plenty of gadgets to connect your home. Most recently, I added the GE Z-Wave Outlet which lets me turn the outlet off and on remotely. I use it to control the living room lights which we always turn on at night but now the new GE Outlet can automate this during sunrise and sunset.
5 Awesome jQuery Plugins from 2013
Here’s my list of some of my favorite jQuery plugins I stumbled upon in 2013. Some of my favorite places to look for new jQuery plugins include Github’s Trending page and Webdesigner Depot’s “best of” posts. Not all of these are jQuery plugins but great Javascript plugins too.
Magnific Popup
Magnific popup is by far my favorite plugin of the year, I’ve always struggled finding great Lightbox plugins but they are usually flawed, Magnific knocks the competition out of the park. It runs fast, displays images in a huge modern fashion, and has all of the options you could ever want.
LIFX Review
Everything is getting smarter in the house, well now we finally have a smart lightbulb. The LIFX lightbulb originally started on Kickstarter over a year ago destroying their goal of $100,000 with over a million dollars from backers.
My Camera Gear
I’ve started to take more and more photos so I’m sharing my gear and software used to produce the results I’m getting.
Epishock Speaker Review
With hundreds of speakers on the market the Epishock by Origaudio is a great change from standard speakers but still meerly a novelty.
5 Basics of A/B Testing
Split URL testing can lead to huge benefits in your website or app. If you’re new to testing, you’re at the right place. These 5 guidelines are important to running any test.
Pop In Effect with CSS Keyframe Animation
Building custom animations is easy with CSS3’s Keyframe property. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a small “pop in” animation using CSS.
Slick 3D Buttons (PSD)
Here are a few buttons including default, hover and active states. These are great if you need an eye catching call to action. The font used was Nevis which you can get for free here.