Category: Updates

But who ever said it is? Splash pages/screens in web and apps are useful while the homepage/screen is loading. One could also use an animation when exiting from the splash.

So be creative on those splash now.

Due to clumsiness, I lost a Photoshop file I was working on last Friday. It was an Android “mock-app” and prior to working on it, it was supposed to be a template file so the file name was something like “android-app_template_1a.psd.

Now, it’s Monday and it’s back to work, I was looking for the file with the project file name in mind. So, tough luck for me finding it.

I know, I could have looked up files modified by Friday but Windows 7 Search thinks you could just describe what you’re searching for in the Search field.

I never had this “difficulty’ in Windows XP. Makes me miss Benny the dog whom we shooed away far too many times. *sniff*

Since we can’t do anything about it, might as well memorize operators, keywords, and wildcards for Windows 7 Search.

I recently joined The Noun Project — a site that crowdsources icons from designers and uploaders.

From their About page:

The Noun Project is a platform empowering the community to build a global visual language that everyone can understand.

Visit my page; I’m working on a facial expression series: Dys on The Noun Project

All WordPress .assistive-text and .screen-reader-text are being hidden superficially — screen readers would still be able to read them.

Here’s the CSS snippet from HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0:

.visuallyhidden {
	border:0;
	clip:rect(0 0 0 0);
	height:1px;
	margin:-1px;
	overflow:hidden;
	padding:0;
	position:absolute;
	width:1px;
}

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By the way, I would write a separate post here how I write the class or ID name of an HTML element rather than placing the pre-defined class selector in the HTML code. For example, instead of putting .visuallyhidden in all elements that I want to be displayed according to the style, I would put its class or ID name along with .visuallyhidden in the stylesheet.

My Rebels at Work answered questionnaire.

About Rebels at Work:

This Rebels at Work community is for corporate rebels to share experiences, insights and advice with other rebels and aspiring rebels. By rebels we’re talking about those people who feel compelled to create ways to improve, change, and innovate. They are brave (or foolhardy) enough to stand against the prevailing mindset of the organization and argue for a better way. The hope is that rebels can find courage and ideas to be more successful, and executives can see why their success depends on encouraging rebels.

You may share your story, too, if you’re a “rebel”.

And here’s day three of our site-building series.

Not sure if this would work — 25% for the left sidebar and 75% for the main content.

I’m also testing an alternate position of the sidebar so that the main content would be the focus on the right side.

Currently using the Hallo app; I installed it in the Chikka UI team’s HTC One X Android phone.

They say it’s like texting but with your voice.

Indeed!

Here’s a reply to “How do you say ‘hello’ in your language?”

I’m thinking maybe I could mimic the look of a book — with left and right pages. Then the content should not exceed the vertical area of the usual desktop viewport. But that sound like “form over function”.

Will it work that I build this site without any blueprint? I guess not.

We need at least a sketch!

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Adding:

• HTML5 Boilerplate 4.0’s main.css and normalize.css

Just the right luck, I chanced upon Toolbox theme in WordPress. It doesn’t have any clothing if it were human. I am building this site from the ground up. Well, not really because this theme, at least, has a style.css in it.

I’ll be documenting the changes thru screenshots and I will post it in each entry.

Stay tuned!