Pinboard: bookmarks for tstephens tagged 'reference'

This photoshoot serves as awesome reference reminding us artists that strong bodies come in all kinds of shapes and sizes and muscles show up in different ways. It also helps us keep in mind that not everyone who is fit is also lean. There’s often a layer of fat over the muscles, making them less visible for some.

art photography reference sports
march 2011 by tstephens

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List of Crayola crayon colors IN HEX FORM

Want to really know how to make your web page Crayola Cerulean? Cornflower? Burnt Sienna? Those are #1dacd6, #9aceeb, and #ea7e5d respectively.

crayons reference web_design
february 2011 by tstephens

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Dive Into HTML5
html html5 reference tutorial
february 2011 by tstephens

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Bolt and fastener chart

Learn your Carriage bolts from your Socket screws. What a J-Bolt is, and what an Elevator Bolt is.

reference home-improvement
january 2011 by tstephens

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List of common misconceptions
interesting reference science trivia
january 2011 by tstephens

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10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance - Nettuts+
jquery how-to reference javascript
june 2009 by tstephens

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All the Small Icons You'll Ever Need

A large collection of small icons that should fit most of your design needs.

webdesign icons reference
june 2009 by tstephens

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How To Be A Successful Evil Overlord
fun reference evil funny tips how-to
april 2009 by tstephens

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Solving a Rubiks Cube.

My sons Rubiks Cube just got all messed up. I could get the top two layers, but not the bottom one. I cheated, and found this handy reference chart online. I totally need to learn these moves.

reference howto diy puzzles
march 2009 by tstephens

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Approximate Conversion from Points to Pixels

I was being lazy this morning, and needed a quick way to convert some points into the appropriate EM size. Viola'. This chart helps out immensely.

reference webdesign tools design
march 2009 by tstephens

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Infragistics Quince: UX Patterns Explorer
reference webdesign tools patterns library examples designpatterns userexperience ux
february 2009 by tstephens

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Infrastructure for Modern Web Sites
reference lists webdesign tools architecture howto development framework frameworks infrastructure
february 2009 by tstephens

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Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering

Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file.

art reference comics fonts howto rules
february 2009 by tstephens

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Fluid 960 Grid System | 16-column Grid

A good demo page showing a fluid 16 column grid, in conjuction with mooTools.

javascript demo reference mootools grid webdesign template
january 2009 by tstephens

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How to Design the Perfect List

Lists are a beautiful way to display content and information in a very easy to scan, easy to read method. Lists are found on most blogs to list posts, comments, tags, or links. In this post we will be exploring the modern practices of lists as an element of web design and they will be showing you how to design better lists to add to the overall design of your site.

reference lists tips css webdesign howto tutorial
january 2009 by tstephens

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10 Promising Free Web Analytics Tools - Six Revisions
reference tool analytics webanalytics seo
january 2009 by tstephens

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Make your own Pruno

Pruno, a prison wine created from fruit, sugar and ketchup, is such a vile and despicable beast in the California state penal system that prisoners can't eat fresh fruit at lunch.

how-to fun reference culture interesting food weird wine
december 2008 by tstephens

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5 Tips for Better jQuery Code: jQuery, Tutorial

Nice list of better jQuery techniques. I wasn't aware of some of the items in the list.

jquery javascript list reference tips
november 2008 by tstephens

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Golden Ratio in modern CSS

A short article, but useful information. "...Let’s say for example that our page width is 960 pixels and we want to divide this using the golden ratio. Our main-content will be 960 / 1.62 = 593 pixels and our sidebar 960 - 593 = 367 pixels. ..."

css coding reference design
november 2008 by tstephens

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The Best Cheat Sheets for Web Developers

Good collection of links to a wide variety of cheat sheets. jQuery, prototype, extJS, HTML, CSS, PHP, etc.

reference coding
november 2008 by tstephens

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CSS Browser Hacks For Firefox, Opera, Safari & Internet Explorer

Most standards favoring browsers (Firefox, Opera & Safari) have no method of targeting CSS to the specific browser while Internet Explorer, the buggiest browser, has a completely safe and easy method of serving CSS/HTML to only IE.

reference CSS tips browsers html
october 2008 by tstephens

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CSS simple fluid drop shadows

Stu Nichols provides an easy CSS example of creating fluid solid drop-shadows.

css coding how-to reference UI effects webdesign
october 2008 by tstephens

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How To Write An Effective Design Brief and Get The Design You Want!
writing how-to reference design
october 2008 by tstephens

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How To Whistle Loudly
how-to reference things_to_try learning
october 2008 by tstephens

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Usability Post » A Guide to Choosing Colors for Your Brand

What do colors mean? Incredibly useful.

color brand design reference list webdesign graphic_design
september 2008 by tstephens

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About Us Information on Websites (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
usability reference webdesign user-centered userExperience users
september 2008 by tstephens

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7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code

Nice collection of tips and how to optimize and use shorthand.

css coding how-to reference webdesign
august 2008 by tstephens

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Label Placement on Forms - CSS-Tricks

When creating a web form, one of the many choices you must make is how you are going to align your labels with your inputs. This is not a trivial decision, as this placement affects the readability/usability of your form, completion rates, speed of completion, and ultimately the satisfaction level of the users trying to get through your form.