What up Posse enthusiasts! There’s a new-ish web and graphic design group in Victoria meetin’ together every month to have a drink and talk about what it is we do. It’s a casual place to bounce ideas off each other, collaborate, maybe learn something new and bitch about the parts of the job that frustrate us. If [...]

First off, a huge thanks to all those who attended the Posse presentation last night. We had a record breaking 40 people show up, and our presenter Jim Rutherford had a lot of great feedback as well. For those interested in looking at the resources that were covered, including a Zip package of the slideshow, [...]

Everyone seems to be loving the lightbox effect like this lately (MooTools framework or Prototype are two examples - there’s even a WordPress plugin) but here’s something cool put together by John Einselen that actually lets you “lightbox” with video, flash, and HTML content like Youtube: MediaBox, built on MooTools. If you want to see more [...]

If you’ve been to a lot of these new-fangled websites lately, you might notice them using cool effects like Accordians and Draggable Boxes. The culprit for a lot of it is the Mootools JavaScript Framework. But if you’re anything like myself, who is sub-par intermediate level in the way of JavaScript, MooTools offers an excellent [...]

It looks like some of us have discovered now that CSS *can* actually be our friend in more ways than one. This article from Modern Blue explains exactly how to do it. Essentially, you’re hiding an extra text field with CSS - when a post gets sent and that hidden text box has information in [...]

Something one of our posse showed me that I thought was absolutely amazing, and all you need to spare is a worthwhile 15 minutes. In a nutshell, this is a web app that gathers all the data from photos on photo shares like flickr, and networks them together into a 3 dimensional space. You will see [...]

In a near-direct relation to what’s going on with the Posse and it’s future meetings, I remembered the suggestion of “let’s learn about design”. So without further adieu, enter: Elegant Web Typography [PDF], presented by Jeff Croft.* This is an excellent resource for designers and developers alike, as it covers important type considerations like em [...]

I must say, despite the location change, the day change, and all the other crazy that people had going on during their busy work schedules - we managed to pull together yet another excellent meeting. So *thanks* to everyone who came out! Not to forget a thanks as well to Number 41 Media for harbouring [...]

After falling upon this CSS hack, how could I not post it? Thanks to Dustin Diaz for this amazingly simple and fast min-height hack!

Holy. Crap. At least, those were the two single words that came to mind when I saw what this guy did with the Yahoo! Maps API. (Pirate Map and Radar Map) Yes, there have been a lot of cool, inventive mashup m’apps’ like Chicago Crime and CommunityWalk - but they still retain the ubiquitous drab of todays [...]