Last week I spoke at Meet The Pros and, not surprisingly, my presentation was titled Fun with code. When I had volunteered to speak way back when, I envisioned myself talking about a bunch of code stuff and making it really interesting and fun. If you’re a regular reader of the Fun with code series here, you probably don’t remember any of it being terribly interesting or fun. It may be really helpful and useful, but it’s certainly too specialized…
4 Oct 2012
Drew Gourley
A few weeks ago, we announced that oxidedesign.com was fully retina optimized. For those of you who do not know, a retina display is a monitor or device that has more pixels per inch of space than a normal display. This basically means it is harder to tell where the edges of pixels are, allowing for an extremely crisp and clean appearance. This works great on the web for things like text, but a problem arises when displaying images. Since…
5 Jul 2012
Drew Gourley
I just want to start this post off by saying, there is no page fold. All kidding aside, that fact is especially true on this year’s mahamusicfestival.com. You’ll probably agree that the site functions quite well, and it is by far one of my personal favorites so far.
21 May 2012
Drew Gourley
We have a lot of active, ongoing projects here at Oxide, especially when it comes to the web. In order to build and make changes to sites which can still be viewable for internal or client review, we run live staging versions of them on subdomains of oxidedesign.com. Don’t bother digging around looking for a secret gem though, because you can’t get in. At least, not anymore.
2 Apr 2012
Drew Gourley
Hey everybody, you may have noticed that we just launched the new #bigomaha site. You may have also noticed that a great deal of it is hand-illustrated. This presented a bit of a problem, because in order for us to be able to achieve the most liquid and dynamic layout, every bit of hand drawn text or illustration on the site needed to have a nice, clean, perfect transparency.
9 Mar 2012
Joe Sparano
It can be disorienting to think that design is important. Not because design isn’t important – but because it’s easy to misunderstand what design is.
7 Feb 2012
Drew Gourley
It’s been a little while since the last entry to Fun with code, mostly because I’ve been having quite a bit of fun with code. Alas, this tutorial has a third and final part which will wrap everything up.
10 Jan 2012
Adam Torpin
For most of us, landing a job in design didn’t just happen. In our field, there is an abundance of applicants and a minimal number of openings. This means that you’re going to have to do everything you can to even get noticed. If you’re getting ready to take the plunge into the frigid waters of the design job market, following these guidelines will help you to get noticed.
7 Sep 2011
Drew Gourley
For part two of this series, I want to show how I extended the default functionality of WordPress custom post types and taxonomies in order to build a user-friendly way to associate posts from one type to another. To recap, in part one, we set up a couple of custom post types. To start this tutorial we’ll be using a very similar function to set up the taxonomy which we will leverage for post-to-post association.
11 Aug 2011
Drew Gourley
Over the past few years, I’ve written quite a bit of code and I’ve had a lot of fun doing it. I’ve got tons of useful snippets in my back pocket and I’m just itching to share them with the world. I’m going to take this opportunity to start a new series here on the Oxide blog, Fun with code. To get things started, let’s outline a problem and uncover a situation which creative code can solve.