http://cubiq.org Web and mobile development Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:29:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://cubiq.org/dynamic-pure-css-3d-text http://cubiq.org/dynamic-pure-css-3d-text#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:54:10 +0000 Matteo Spinelli http://cubiq.org/?p=161 Using text-shadow to obtain a pseudo 3D effect is a nice technique but the 3D effect is limited to just one direction. I was wondering if we could get a better effect by adding a pinch of CSS transforms.]]> http://cubiq.org/dynamic-pure-css-3d-text/feed 12 http://cubiq.org/autopsy-of-a-site-redesign http://cubiq.org/autopsy-of-a-site-redesign#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:50:53 +0000 Matteo Spinelli http://cubiq.org/?p=155 The good part of having a personal blog is that you can play and experiment with it. I've finally abandoned the XHTML madness and embraced HTML5, I explored the canvas element (you can see it in the logo) and finally added tablet and smartphone compatibility thanks to media queries. Read more for backstage access.]]> http://cubiq.org/autopsy-of-a-site-redesign/feed 13 http://cubiq.org/playing-with-css3-gradients http://cubiq.org/playing-with-css3-gradients#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:57:05 +0000 Matteo Spinelli http://cubiq.org/?p=84 I'm surprised to see that many mobile web apps still use images for buttons. If you target the Android or iPhone web browser, CSS3 gradients are an extremely powerful resource, not only to make buttons. I spent a couple of hours playing with gradients and masks and here I present you a page stuffed with examples in all their text-only beauty.]]> http://cubiq.org/playing-with-css3-gradients/feed 20 http://cubiq.org/create-fixed-size-thumbnails-with-imagemagick http://cubiq.org/create-fixed-size-thumbnails-with-imagemagick#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:00:46 +0000 Matteo Spinelli http://cubiq.org/?p=4 ImageMagick is powerful suite of applications to create, edit, convert and compose bitmap (and some vector) images from the terminal. It's an essential tool for any web designer if you can get your head around it.]]> http://cubiq.org/create-fixed-size-thumbnails-with-imagemagick/feed 3