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#111: Get Yourself Preprocessing in Just a Few Minutes May 13, 2012

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There is nothing to be afraid about in this brave new world of preprocessing. Native apps make it so easy that it should be a vital part of any modern workflow. In this video we have a simple project in …

#110: Quick Overview of CSS Position Values Mar 18, 2012

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This is a quick beginner-level overview of the different CSS position values. In a nutshell: relative allows you to “nudge” and leaves the element’s original position in the page flow. Absolute and fixed allow for exact placement of elements and …

#109: Getting off FTP and onto Git Deployment with Beanstalk Feb 13, 2012

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In this screencast I move my own personal website from my old live FTP editing ways to a proper version controlled system including deployment. I haven’t had much experience with this, so forgive me if it’s a bit rough.

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#108: Using Chartwell Jan 30, 2012

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Chartwell is a font specifically for making simple and beautiful pie charts, bar charts, and line graphs. It’s as simple as writing out simple equations like 40+20+25+15. In desktop software like Adobe Illustrator, you control the graph by writing out …

#107: LiveReload, a Menu Bar App for Preprocessors and Speedy Development Dec 14, 2011

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LiveReload is a Mac-only menu bar app that is quite helpful for web developers. Just tell it to watch a specific folder, and when a file is saved, the browser will automatically refresh showing the change. So no need to …

#106: Use BrowserStack for Live Web-Based Cross Browser Testing Dec 12, 2011

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There are many tools for showing you screenshots of websites in different browsers to help with testing. But a screenshot is lacking in so many ways: no clicking, no hovering, no typing, no resizing, no testing JavaScript or other interactive …

#105: Using SpriteCow Nov 16, 2011

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In which I take a real example of somewhere I knew using sprites would be a good idea, create the sprite by hand in Photoshop (my preferred method), and then use SpriteCow to help with the exact position values needed …

#104: Quick Tip: Use Dropbox to Make a Public URL for Anything Nov 07, 2011

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Just save the website from the browser (in Firefox, you get an .html file and all the resources), drop it in your Public folder, and use the right-click contextual menu to grab the public URL.…

#103: Integrating FitVids.js into WordPress Nov 02, 2011

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The default WordPress theme at the time of this screencast is TwentyEleven, a wonderfully simple and responsive design. That is, until we post an awesome YouTube video as a new blog post and the responsiveness breaks down. The video doesn’t …

#102: Braindump on Responsive Web Design Oct 14, 2011

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In which I show and explain the very basics of what “responsive web design” has come to mean. Then I go all over the place and show examples, related resources, relevant people, tips and tricks, and more.…

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