The Font Debate As the age old font debate- Serif vs. Sans Serif- rages on, new factions begin to grow from within each camp. On the Serif side the debate has become Times New Roman vs. Georgia. On the Sans Serif side designers argue over Arial and Helvetica. With so many differing opinions out there, how do I know who...
Social media is everywhere and always changing. It is important to utilize social media in every way you can. One way is to boost your branding by having branded social media pages. Another is to use social sharing buttons. Recently, I worked on adding social sharing buttons on the Blueprint blog as a part of my front end development tasks....
I work on a lot of front end development projects here at Blueprint. Usually when I am working on a project I need to create pages, but I don’t want to create blank pages with no content. The solution is to use lorem ipsum. What is lorem ipsum? Lorem ipsum is a placeholder text. It is also called filler text...
Due to an intense January snow storm, Blueprint will be closed until 9am on Friday January 18th. Meteorologist, Josiah T declares “it’s snowing” while rockin’ his awesome snow boots. His excitement could hardly be contained. Chief meteorologist – AKA “Daddy” – responded, It looks like clean up will take a bit longer than originally anticipated.
I work on a lot of front-end development projects at Blueprint. They range from making WordPress themes to converting a website to WordPress to writing code for mobile design. When working on some of these projects, I find myself needing placeholder images. For example, I could be working on a jQuery slideshow, and I would need temporary placeholder images until...
A WordPress plugin is a program or set of functions, written in PHP, that adds specific features or services to a WordPress website, which can be integrated into the site with methods provided by the WordPress API. A plugin can add additional functionality, or modify existing WordPress features. Setting Up A WordPress Plugin The first step in creating a plugin...
As a front-end developer, I personally love working with CSS. I have been working a lot with responsive design lately, and as I pointed out in an earlier post on designing for mobile devices, one of the things to keep in mind was phone number formats. Another thing to keep in mind when developing for mobile devices is the CSS...
What is Skeuomorphism? Skeuomorphism (the tendency to deliberately make something new look like something old and familiar) is a polarizing design language people either love or hate. Maybe one of the biggest and most familiar supporter of skeuomorphic design is Apple. Like most design languages there are positives and negatives to using it. The Pros When used correctly skeuomorphism can...
If your office is as busy as ours is, then you need ways to stay organized. At our Blueprint Duluth office, our employees thrive when it gets busy in the office. Most of what we do is on a project basis. However, it is easy when doing a large project that requires work from multiple departments, for something to get...
I cannot stress enough how important it is to have a mobile compatible version of a website. I wrote several times before on responsive design, sharing some tips and tricks. Here at Blueprint, I do a lot of responsive web development. While I work on a project, I find myself needing to test my work. Here are some tools that...
