Blog of Soh Tanaka

My Domain Name Has Been Stolen!

This is going to be a super quick alert to everyone who visits my site. Unfortunately my domain name www.sohtanaka.com has been stolen by someone who uses planetdomain.com, and has hijacked my account. The site is a bit spotty at the moment so please be aware and alert. You can check with me on twitter [...]

Seeking a PHP Ninja in Los Angeles!

Our Los Angeles team here at Soap Creative is expanding! As our clients want more accessible and scalable sites, we are in need of a PHP ninja to join our LA team. Requirements Expert level PHP skills (min. 4 years experience) including object oriented programming Understanding of cross-browser compatibility Proficiency with HTML/CSS Digital Agency experience [...]

Happy New Year

Its been quite a while since I wrote my last blog post back in October. Some of you may be wondering whats been up on my plate and so I would like to do a lil recap of the past few months to get up to speed. Taking a Dive into the Deep End Every [...]

Simple Tooltip w/ jQuery & CSS

There are a lot of tooltip plugins out there, but not many of them explain what exactly goes on in the logic of a tooltip. I would like to share how I’ve created mine today, and am also open to any critiques and suggestions for those jQuery ninjas out there. Lets take a look. View [...]

Nomination & Judge @ the .Net Magazine Awards

I was recently contacted by the crew at .Net Magazine and had been asked to be part of the judging panel for this year’s .Net awards. It was an honor to be part of the panel amongst the other great designers, bloggers, and developers. Later on I received a few emails and tweets congratulating me [...]

Advanced Columns using the :nth-child(N)

I recently developed a site for a client who requested their product listings be displayed similar to how Johnny Cupcakes (Street wear brand from Boston/Los Angeles) lays out their products (columns laid out in a zig zag pattern). My first instinct was to split each section into its own list, but since this site was [...]

Inspiration Fridays – Pretty Lights

One of my favorite artists Pretty Lights just released his latest album “Spilling Over Every Side” just last week and I wanted to share it with those who are into electronica. Pretty Lights is the musical vision of the ultra-versatile Colorado based producer Derek Vincent Smith, accompanied in the live setting by drummer Adam Deitch. [...]

Win a Free Membership to Vandelay Premier! Contest Closed

I recently created a simple one page HTML/CSS/jQuery portfolio template for Vandelay Premier and they have offered a free one-year account for three lucky winners! Vandelay Premier was created by Steven Snell of Vandelay Design and serves as a membership-based community for designers. They provide web and graphic designers with premium-quality design resources that make [...]

Popout Details on Hover w/ CSS

I recently saw a hover over trick that caught my eye and I thought it was a pretty clever way of showing more details on an element. I decided to give it a try and the solution was quite simple. View Demo HTML The columns are made up of unordered list items, within each list [...]

Inspiration Fridays – Rodney Mullen

I used to be obsessed with skateboarding back in my middle school and highschool days. I had quit after highschool and never thought I would be back into it, but early this year I picked it back up and now loving it more than ever. Its a great stress reliever and it gets my creative [...]