Category Archives: Web/Print Design and Dev

Data visualization thoughts, and articles I liked: Friday, December 2, 2011

Shan Carter of NY Times is one of my heroes, and found this Vimeo link of his presentation. Shan Carter at Data Vis Meetup from sha on Vimeo. Statistical Analysis Approachable Storytelling Useful Interactivity What makes interactive graphics good is just like any other things good, like children’s books, books oor moves. “Remember that you [...]

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Creating tooltip only using CSS?

Wanted to see if this was possible and I am trying to see if you can see the tooltip when you hover over your mouse on top of this link. Does it work?

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Testing, One, Two…

Awesome. Internets, you are great. Found what I was looking for. HTML Test Page for CSS Style Guide in Snipplr by a very kind sharing/caring person named jonhenshaw. You rock, jonhenshaw.

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Introducing “Interactive Bar/Fever Chart Generator”

bar-chart-generator

Ever wanted to create simple bar chart that you can paste onto your CMS or Blog that has a tool tip that shows value of each bar?

Here it is:
Interactive Bar/Fever Chart Generator at http://charts.daigofujiwara.com

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Responsive You Tube Embed Video and articles I liked: Friday, September 23, 2011

This video makes me happy. Looking at happy people who showed up at first test run of Shinkansen in Kyushu. They aired it day after the earthquake and it lifted spirits. All I am doing to make this video “responsive” is wrapping it in div of class=”video” that has the css rule like this: .video [...]

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Quick and dirty sticky elements when scrolling using jQuery

Had to write a quick and dirty sticky elements when scrolling using jquery for a wrok project. I always wanted to know how they did that. I think Apple had the shopping cart that followed scrolling. There are bunch of great plugins and codes available, such as Waypoints and Sticky Scroller. Mine is very simple, [...]

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Tech memo to myself: MySQL server on my Mac

MySQL logo

As I am getting more in to doing github stuff and running my machine as a development test server, I have need to have MySQL database set up and running locally, and since it requires me starting the server up every time, I figured it won’t hurt to write down what I did to set [...]

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A year later, I am finally getting “Responsive Web Design”

Perhaps a way, waaaay late to the party, but a year later, I heard about the “Responsive Web Design” and man, this is crazy good stuff. Very exciting. Better late than never, I guess. I feel old and very un-cutting edge. As I read more about it, I am just collecting bunch of links here. [...]

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Cool and easy jQuery effect

I saw this on this very well designed (and sweet) website about a couple’s wedding announcement site, but finally figured out how it was done today. Very easy and cool. The set up is simple, a website, long in vertical, with local anchor link targets (identified with ids) and anchors with # links. Better html [...]

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Japanese American designer: S. Neil Fujita, 1921–2010

In an article in AIGA Voice, I learned that there is a Japanese American graphic designer, who’s great work many of us are familier with. Here is the lin to the article, S. Neil Fujita, 1921–2010 by Steven Heller. And here is the link to New York Times’ obit. He designed cover of The Godfather [...]

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