We put together a little Instagram contest site for Four Year Strong. The site uses Instagram to let fans submit photos based on their new single “Just Drive” to win a bunch of prizes from the band. Here’s some more info from their site:
“It’s simple, show us your best “Just Drive” inspired photos. It could be of you on a road trip, your car, etc. or anything that “drives” you in general. Tag them on Instagram with #justdrive and you’ll be entered to win! The best part about FYSTAGRAM.com is that anything you tag with #justdrive will be featured up on the site! (NO n00dz you pervs)”
So head on over to www.fystagram.com and check it out.
This might be the first real cause that I have ever believed in. Ok, it’s actually the second (This is the first). Microsoft is trying to get IE6’s usage to drop below 1% worldwide. If you make websites in any shape or form, this should be a cause near and dear to your heart. IE6 is the devil.
Please visit http://ie6countdown.com and be part of the solution.
Here’s another useful little diddy for you web dudez. If you’re like me, you like to start off laying out a new web project with some sort of grid (if you aren’t like me, you really should, it makes things a lot easier), you know how annoying it can be to do all the math and what not when setting up your document.
Gridulator has your back. You just plug in the width of your document and how many columns you want, and then it does all the work for you. It makes a little png of your grid that you can use in photoshop, fireworks, or whatever it is that you use. Done deal. It literally takes about 30 seconds.
Yardley showed me this the other day and I thought it was worth sharing. Have you ever been trying to mock up a website real quick and needed a bunch of placeholder images? Well, Placehold.it is exactly what you should be using!
Basically you give it a URL like http://placehold.it/350x150 and then it magically gives you an image with the dimensions you supplied in the URL. “Holy crap!” you say? I know. You can even customize the image colors or text to make it match your site a little bit better.
Go on, try it out.
I was browsing the webz and just stumbled across this and thought it looked pretty cool. According to their site, “Sencha Touch is the world’s first app framework built specifically to leverage HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript for the highest level of power, flexibility, and optimization.”
What does this mean for you developers? Basically you can use their framework to build completely standards-compliant mobile web apps much more quickly and easily than doing it all from scratch yourself. Right now it supports iOS and Android devices, but the site says they will be expanding on that some (not that they really need to, those 2 OSes are basically the entire mobile app market).
I’m pretty excited to get a minute to mess around with it some. I’ll be sure to make a post on here about it with some more info once I do.
Check it out here
We just added the littlest of features to our website. Now you can tell your twitter and facebook friends that you like projects on our site with the little buttons at the bottom of each project.
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This post is for the few of you who got to this blog not from our actual site. We have a brand new portfolio site! Go check it out and tell all of your friends and be all happy about it and junk!
http://www.theblackaxe.com
We launched the new site for Fest 9 yesterday. GET PSYCHED! We built the whole thing over from scratch this year including a completely custom CMS to run the blog, band profiles, music players, and everything else on the site.
Go check it out
