The Kick Awesome Show: Episode 31
This week we have CSS3 prefix fixing, the master of flash lighting, and a high ten with font dropping and crazy owls! There are also sticks. Bass sticks.
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Nest - The Thermostat You Actually Want to Buy
I never thought I’d be looking for a way to scrounge up the extra money to buy a thermostat, and yet here we are. Nest looks like a fantastic product from former Apple employees Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers. Packed with all kinds of sensors, gorgeous industrial design and intelligent software that learns your routines, you can tell the details have been sweated over for a long time. Take a look at the installation guide to see what I mean.
Long story short, these guys are tackling a huge problem with current iterations of thermostats and helping us to save energy and money, all while making it fun. Go check it out →
Keep ReadingGradient App - A Fine Way to Make CSS3 Gradients
Background gradients in CSS3 are a pain. Multiple syntaxes, color stops all over the place. And that’s just for a linear gradient. Anything other than that makes my head hurt. Thankfully Jumpzero has just released the beta of their Gradient App.
It’s a beautiful, simple app that makes it easy to select the exact colors you need, the direction and type of gradient, and then it spits out all the vendor prefixes you could possibly imagine. It will even do RGB and RGBA in addition to HEX codes. The UI is really great and I find myself actually enjoying making gradients. Who’d have thought?
I have no idea what Gradient will eventually cost, but you can grab it for free while it’s in beta. So go do it. Now!
Keep ReadingBlog Pagination, Categories and Comments with Structure in ExpressionEngine
If we haven’t made it plain before, we love ExpressionEngine and Structure. When betrothed together in holy matrimony they make a beautiful pair. But as with any relationship there are some snags. More specifically – blog pagination, categories and comments. Let’s take a look at the problems they have and then some quick tips I’ve stumbled across on how to fix them.
Basic Structure Setup
Before we jump in I’m assuming you know a bit about Structure. It lets you create pages based on URL’s not templates. But it does use templates. Confused yet!? Ok. If you’re creating a blog you will need to do a few things.
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Create two templates - A “show a list of my entries” template and an “individual article” template. - In your Structure tree, go to settings and add your blog channel as a listing and set it to the individual article template.
- Create the main blog page with Structure, but choose your list of entries template instead of the default template. Also choose to make the page have listings and choose the Blog channel.
- Now back in your Structure tree you’ve got the blog page in your navigation and the option to edit or add new blog entries as listings.
Here’s basic versions of what the two templates should look like:
Keep ReadingThe Kick Awesome Show: Episode 30
This week we’re looking at Due for your iPhone, Aperture Triggers, the Mini Donut Factory, Google’s Page Speed Service, Chosen by Harvest and our picks from DesignersMusic. Vivo the Muchacho!
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