z-indexing: A Sneaky Complicator!
Sometimes elements overlap, and this can cause some serious problems. Normally, elements are positioned in the order that they’re created in html. That’s called static positioning. But let’s say you have a navigator bar that’s unusual. And maybe you’re just…
Today’s Discovery: CSS3′s @font-face property
A couple weeks ago, when I first started planning out the re-design of http://raquelvelez.com, I discovered this really neat font: Shadows Into Light. (I may have, in fact, spent near an hour going through dafont.com‘s entire handwriting section, in an…
CSS and Boxes
CSS is pretty easy, actually. It’s just moving boxes around. – A Front-End Dev Friend Yeah, right. Tell that to my tired fingers and eyes. Ok, so maybe he’s not too far off. It really is just moving boxes around. But…
A Few Books to Get Started
So, although I haven’t started reading anything on Ruby, Haml, or Sass, I *have* gotten my feet wet in some crucial topics. The first book, Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte, completely changed the way I thought about the web. …
Hacking to Get Started
When I’m learning something new, I don’t open a book; I start off by hacking around. Books are for answers. But how can you get answers when you don’t have any questions yet?! I find that I start asking questions…
From Roboticist to Web Developer
I love the way people interact with technology. I started my career out as a roboticist: armed with a mechanical engineering degree from Caltech and a passion for automated machines, I built robots big and small. I developed algorithms, created…
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