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CSS Wizardry Netvibes widget

Harry Roberts — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:04:54 +0000

For those of you that read CSS Wizardry and use Netvibes, I have created a small search widget which you may be interested in adding to your Netvibes page. The widget is simply a small search form, from which you can search all the current articles on the CSS Wizardry site. All you need to do is head to the widget’s page and hit ‘Add to Netvibes’.

From my point of view, creating the widget could not have been simpler—simply writing some basic form HTML which posts to the blog will yield results, and it then just requires dropping into an XML document and placing on a live server, and linking to via the Netvibes developer centre.

You can view the ‘master’ XML document here: http://csswizardry.com/netvibes/index.xml

Moo business cards—most impressive

Harry Roberts — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:36:42 +0000

After so long with no type of business cards to speak of, I decided to design myself some new ones. I wanted to use the pink I use on the site (#f43059) but I also wanted to shy away from using the obvious choice of Helvetica (although it is a beautiful typeface). Instead I opted for Din, which I think works amazingly well in context. I also decided to use Moo for the printing, and I am extremely glad I did…

Naturally I designed the cards in Illustrator but my initial thoughts were to flatten these vector files and send them off to a print company to be done by them. However, after remembering Moo, I decided to give them a shot and get a limited run of just fifty cards made—this was because I wasn’t sure on just how good the quality might be…

The main reason for my concerns about quality was the fact that I was to print the cards from a .jpg image, rather than a lossless vector format. However, when they arrived I was amazed to find they were perfectly legible, totally flawless and perfectly finished. Nothing was even slightly questionable about the cards or their quality, I was pretty impressed!

As well as the quality of the cards themselves I was delighted to find they were presented in a gorgeous heavy card case along with some sorting tags for ‘Mine’ and ‘Theirs’ business cards. A beautiful way to present some top quality cards.

Moo MiniCards

As well as getting myself some business cards from Moo I decided to surprise Suze with some MiniCards with a few photos from her Flickr stream. The cards were, again, top quality, presented in a lovely shallow box. She was really pleased with them! Although she is wondering what exactly to do with them, so please post any suggestions!

A firm recommendation…

After the speed with which the cards were printed and delivered, their outstanding quality, the beautiful presentation and the sheer pleasure of using Moo (not to mention the extremely attractive prices) I will, without a shadow of a doubt, be using Moo again, and definitely recommending them to anyone who requires professional business cards or something novelty like their MiniCards. Five star service.

Test article from the iPhone

Harry Roberts — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:48:34 +0000

This is merely a test article written from my iPhone. Please forgive any loose ends on the site—it was developed in a matter of hours and released possibly too soon. Any bug reporting would be very much appreciated.

Harry — twitter.com/csswizardry

CSS Wizardry—a realignment

Harry Roberts — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:51:14 +0000

After quite some time with version three of CSS Wizardry being live and not really changing I decided that it was time I did something with it. I was more than happy with the design—it had received some nice responses—however I thought the code could be neatened up somewhat. I decided to maintain as much of the previous design as possible and add Wordpress as a CMS.

After two nights work I managed to port most of the styles over and get the bulk of the site functioning perfectly, moving copy across bit by bit. Despite a couple of minor flaws I am, on the whole, very impressed with Wordpress.

Now hopefully I’ll be a little more inclined to update the site—something I’ve been pretty slack with of late…