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With the recent launch of Firefox 3.6, Firefox finally got support for CSS3 gradients (albeit vendor-specific). Safari (and other webkit based browsers) have had support for CSS gradients for a wee while now, and I will hopefully post about those in more detail in the near future. Today though is going to be exploring the [...]

We have just released Birdpie, a small twitter application for storing and managing the urls that you tweet. Birdpie utilises Twitter auth in order to simplify the sign up process and is Dynamic50′s first experimentation with Rails 3.0 pre.Once a user is signed up, Birdpie fetches all previous bookmarks (or as many allowed by Twitter). [...]

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to use multi-column layouts in our sites, without resorting to using a silly amount of divs and javascript? Well, that’s what the Multi Column Module of the CSS3 spec aims to do. It has been in “Working Draft in the CSS Working Group for several years” and has [...]

I recently had to take a pretty complex nested list and style it in a way that easy to understand with semantic markup. Note:In this post I will only be showing the styling and markup, not the implementation of showing/hiding the branches. The structure of the list sounds fairy simple, a list who’s children can [...]

Ugh. If there is one task that will kill my motivation for the day, it’s rounding boxes with CSS. Yes, in the right context they do give a design an edge, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t a real pain to do! The subject has really been done to death by now- there are [...]

Hello again. This week I’ve been getting to grips with Sass and seeing what I could do with it. Sass (a rather charming acronym of Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) is a component of the Haml plugin for Ruby. Where Haml deals with the markup of HTML, Sass deals with the markup of CSS. It describes itself [...]

Hello there! My name is Simon and I’ve just recently joined Dynamic50 as the resident front-end man. As part of the initial work, I needed to generate a bunch of generic, good looking reusable interface elements, and that of course involves the dreaded HTML form. Now, forms are notoriously difficult to style well consistently across [...]