Toby James Creative

Do Want ~ Pantone Colour Chairs

Toby — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:28:45 +0000

I already sup my morning espresso out of a finely-crafted Pantone colour mug, and now I can kick back and subject my finely-crafted behind to the same chromatic joy thanks to the people at The holding Company: For those that … more...

Building My Fixie Pt.2 ~ Stripping

Toby — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:58:04 +0000

In my previous fixie build post, I introduced the idea of this simple, stripped-down incarnation of the bicycle, and my attraction to it. I’ve got hold of my ‘donor bike’ and I’m ready for some stripping action in order to … more...

Even more beautiful Last.fm listening stat graphs

Toby — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:12:30 +0000

I’ve previously written about some rather lovely visualisations that pull data from your Last.fm account, and now here’s another to add to the list. The very clever Andrew Godwin over at Aeracode has come up with LastGraph, which “lets you … more...

New CSS Reset Framework ~ Toucan CSS Reset

Toby — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:28:21 +0000

For yonks now I’ve been using Eric Meyer’s infinitely useful Reset Reloaded framework to bring my designs down to a standard level on which to build. I’ve just picked up a Tweet from the guys over at Smashing Magazine regarding … more...

Styling the current_page_item tag for child pages in WordPress

Toby — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:40:48 +0000

During a recent WordPress theme build, I wanted to have a sidebar that permanently showed child pages with a hover state and an active state utilising the current_page_item tag as generated by WordPress. So far so good, but during testing, … more...