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Denver Roofing Company – Website Launched!

January 15, 2009

in CSS, Web Design Portfolio

Mountain High Roofing, Inc. - Denver roofing intstallation & repair

Katz Web Design has completed a website for Mountain High Roofing, Inc., a Denver roofing company.

The Mountain High Roofing website is built on WordPress. It’s what I would consider to be a medium level of customization; the website is a custom website design with a few plugin customization options. It allows Mountain High to easily update their own content, and add articles to their blog. The code is well-structured for really good SEO results.  Read more&hellip

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Google's Sprite Image is a Thing of Beauty

June 3, 2008

in CSS

If you want to know more about CSS sprites and how to put them together, feast your eyes on Google’s:

Here’s the history of Google’s PNG sprite image

Google's Sprite Image

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Google's Sprite Image

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Google's Sprite Image

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Google's Sprite Image

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Google's Sprite Image

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Google's Sprite Image

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Google Image Sprite

You can’t get much more efficient than that…

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Found: Barack Obama's Web Designer

April 10, 2008

in CSS, Design, Politics

Update: The New WhiteHouse.gov Website

Update: Who will be the White House web designer?

A lot of people have wanted to know who designed Barack Obama’s website. With good reason: Obama’s website is beautiful. It even conveys Obama’s message of hope in it’s wistful design. Well, here it is:

Barack Obama’s web designer is:

SimpleScott. SimpleScott designed Barack Obama’s website, so here’s to SimpleScott for a gorgeous design.

From Scott Thomas, of SimpleScott:

I am the creative director of New Media for Obama for America. The team consisted of many people in house as well as many volunteers. Project leads were myself and John Slabyk. We are maintaining site and brand in-house. Sol Sender designed the logo before I joined the campaign.  Read more&hellip

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Multiple Matte Colors for CSS Sprites

February 7, 2008

in CSS, Code, Design, Tutorial

Here’s the problem: I want to use CSS Sprites for transparent images, and they require different matte colors.

The promise of CSS Sprites is great: you can combine many small images into one bigger image, and use CSS to reveal only the revelant parts. But what if you have a background image, and the background changes color on :hover? When trying to save the smilies, you can only choose one matte color. I need multiple matte colors!

The issue really is a pain when you have already given your object a stroke. Using the Appearance panel, we’ll make everything happy in the world again!

I want the three smileys to be combined as one  Read more&hellip

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