Development Sandbox

Below are several different things I have developed over the years – ranging from cascading style sheet navigations, CSS/Javascript Navigations, icons, silly Tumblr sites, and photographs I have taken. In many ways, I have these listed here just so that I can keep notes on different treatments that I may want to use in the future redesigns or projects. I suppose I could just link to designs and articles, but half the fun is constructing them as that is the only way to learn.

Disclaimer: Many of the designs, navigation schemes, and other things were initially built by people other than myself. I have provided attribution in all appropriate places. I have just taken what they have done and altered or, even enhanced them, in some form or fashion.

Navigation With CSS (and some JavaScript)

• Vertical Navigation – This is a vertical navigation treatment made purely with CSS. The inspiration and learning for this came from Eric Meyer’s CSS Edge along with Max Design’s Listutorial.
• Rounded Tab Navigation – This is an exact replica from Doug Bowman’s article on A List Apart and I am not about to take anything close to credit for this. I just made some color and cosmetic ajustments to what Doug so brilliantly outlined on A List Apart.
• Plain Tab Navigation – The inspiration, direction and learning (ok, I lifted it) for this came from someone at Virginia Tech.
• Horizontal Block Navigation – This is a basic horizontal block navigation treatment created exclusively with CSS. There is absolutely no Javascript in place here. The inspiration and learning for this came from A List Apart, Jeffrey Zeldman via Accessify’s List-O-Matic.
• Mini Slide Navigation – This is a neat navigation treatment I mashed up that was inspired by Slayer Office’s Focus Slide and Simplebits’ Mini Tabs.

Hacks & Hacking

• Desktop Wallpapers – An ever growing collection of minimal yet slightly ironic wallpapers for you to download and use on your desktop background.
• A View Into My Twitter Steam – I hacked together a minimalist view of my Twitter stream so folks can see what being discussed right now within my Twitter graph of folks I follow.
• Sleeping In Front of Macy’s – A silly Tumblr blog I whipped together. Folks snoozing in front of the flagship Macy’s store in Herald Square, NYC.

Icons and Photos

• Icons – Steal them. Take ‘em away. Change them, I don’t care. Here is a wide array of icons for general, non commercial use.
• Stadium Panoramics – A collection of panoramic photos I have taken (stitched together) of different stadiums and baseball parks.