colors in css files posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:43:22 +0000
That’s a great approach.Have you looked at SASS or LESS? It’s designed for exactly what you’re doing. This is mentioned at the end of the book, and it’s extremely easy to pick up.
View ArticleWho is the author? posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:04:23 +0000
@Miles: Yeah, that was a horrible typo wasn’t it?? Let’s try 1995 instead. :)
View ArticleETA? Amazon indicates 12/3-12/7 posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Thu, 01 Oct 2009...
@John:Pushing out beta releases is out of my hands. I’ve inquired though.
View ArticleETA? Amazon indicates 12/3-12/7 posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Tue, 22 Sep 2009...
I honestly can’t say. I hope it’s accurate, but it’s hard to know for sure since we haven’t sent it to the printers yet. It’s going through copyedit and all that pre-release jazz. Plus the last beta...
View ArticleIs this project even still alive? posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Tue, 18 Aug 2009...
Yup, it’s still alive. Working through lots of changes right now.
View ArticleWhich is the correct book title? posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Fri, 19 Jun 2009...
The title is “Web Design For Developers” but I think the subtitle is being kicked around a bit. :)
View ArticleETA on next beta? posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:50:13 +0000
There have been four betas. There are some changes coming as we just finished another round of tech reviews. I can’t answer the question as to when that will happen because that’s sort of up to more...
View ArticleNeed Illustrator and Photoshop? posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Fri, 10 Apr 2009...
The emphasis on the book is on the concepts, and the four chapters that use Photoshop and Illustrator are simply a part of the design process. There are working files you can use if you don’t want to...
View ArticleWhy PhotoShop? -- Focus on the audience posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Wed, 18...
@Joshua:I think this is a great idea to investigate. I’ll look into how far Photoshop Elements will go. I’m not going to make any promises about this getting into the book, but it is certainly...
View ArticleIs this book for me? posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:24:48 +0000
@SC:I’m hoping to get more of this out this week, especially the CSS chapters. As for my site, no offense taken, but you need to keep in mind that anything more than 6 months old is going to look dated...
View ArticleIs this book for me? posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:59:58 +0000
@Isaac: With regard to an update, I assume that a few more chapters will come out this week. I am actually done with the main part of the book but we’re releasing things in chunks and I’ve been...
View ArticleIs this book for me? posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:04:37 +0000
@Jeff:You’re what I’m looking for. You’re my target audience. I’m originally a designer who fell into programming as a necessity and have spent a long time helping other developers learn about design...
View ArticleTypo posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:05:48 +0000
If you haven’t already, please check the errata list to make sure these haven’t been covered, and then add a new erratum. I am pretty sure we covered the first one already, but to make sure we don’t...
View ArticleFlex Builder posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:18:05 +0000
Yeah, no way to do that with the iPhone. However, the iui stuff is pretty good for doing some nice sliding transitions. See http://code.google.com/p/iui/If I had unlimited space, I’d love to just do a...
View ArticleFireworks posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:16:10 +0000
I thought about covering Fireworks in the book in the very beginning but when Adobe bought Macromedia I assumed they’d get rid of it, and Photoshop already has most of the useful features of Fireworks...
View ArticleWhy PhotoShop? -- Focus on the audience posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Mon, 01...
@Michael:I completely understand where you’re coming from. I’m a pretty huge open-source advocate (been doing Rails for almost 4 years now, PHP before then), and I’m not getting anything for promoting...
View ArticleWhy not follow up with Steve? (page 16) posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Thu, 20...
@Andrew:I do like that. That’s a neat idea actually. Steve will make a return appearance a few more times, but you might be on to something there. Thanks!
View ArticleWhy PhotoShop? -- Focus on the audience posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Wed, 19...
While Photoshop is expensive, it pays for itself really quickly, and it’s the tool that other designers use. Even if you don’t design the page yourself, you might get a comp from a designer and you...
View ArticleWho is the author? posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:44:39 +0000
Well, what sort of information would you like to know? Just ask :)Both of those links in the original post go to my sites. The first (http://www.bphogan.com/) is a personal site which has very little...
View Articlemonit for Windows? posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Mon, 05 May 2008 19:28:57 +0000
@Jack Johnson:I’ve not been asked to add anything about that to the book. There are some ways to do that, though. There are some easy ways to do it though…. Some people have been successful with...
View ArticleReverse Proxy and hard-coded URLs in Flex posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Tue, 26...
Sorry but there’s no way to handle that using the method outlined in this book. The documentation for the reverse_proxy_fix plugin specifically says it doesn’t work with hard-coded URLs. You need a...
View ArticleRails on IIS posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:24:38 +0000
There’s a chapter on deploying to Windows. We don’t discuss running Rails within IIS but we discuss how to make Rails work with an existing IIS installation by proxying requests through IIS to a Rails...
View ArticleDepot with Rails 2.0.2 posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:35:06...
The approach I tell students is to do this before starting the depot appgem install rails—version=1.2.3—include-dependenciesrails 1.2.3 depotcd depotthen you’re good to go.IF you have multiple versions...
View ArticleWindows posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:15:26 +0000
It covers both, though I’d say 95% deploying to Windows servers, and 5% deploying from Windows dev machines. However, capistrano works the same on Windows as it does on Linux. If you’re using that to...
View ArticleChapter 9 typos? posted by Brian P. Hogan @ Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:31:14 +0000
I’ll definitely want to look into #1 and #2. Those look like mistakes.As far as #3, if you can be a little more specific about what you’re trying to do, that would be helpful. If the two apps you’re...
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