Jake Rutter - Front-End Developer and Designer, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery, PHP, Wordpress, Expression Engine, Magento» CSS/Web Standards

@font-face and CSS3 Solution

Jake Rutter — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:08:25 +0000

I feel like I have been waiting for support for @font-face for years now. How many times have you had to make an image because a client wanted a specific type-face or have you had to limit your sites to [...]

CSS Grid Frameworks – The What/When/Why/How

Jake Rutter — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:57:19 +0000

CSS Grid Frameworks such as Blueprint and 960 Grid System have been getting more popular. I recently download a wordpress theme that was built with 960gs and I was delighted with how easy it was to use. I’ve always been [...]

jQuery Image Cloning Script

Jake Rutter — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:57:51 +0000

I recently ran into an issue at work where we have been spending countless hours making 6 and 12 bottle shots by hand in Photoshop. We would take one bottle and copy/clone it over 6 or 12 times, then save [...]

jQuery Highlight Navigation Menu v.01 Script

Jake Rutter — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:55:46 +0000

A few months ago, I created a little script using the jQuery library which will add class=”current” to tabs, allowing you to highlight your menu for you users. Its pretty basic, but it searches the URL, if it finds a [...]

Appcelerator Titanium – The Future of Open Souce RIA

Jake Rutter — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:06:31 +0000

Yesterday, I received an email from Appcelerator, informing me of a new product of theirs called Titanium. Appcelerator Titanium is an open source RIA platform for developer desktop web apps, similar to the Adobe AIR platform, in that it uses [...]

Top 10 Job Websites for Open Source Web Designers and Developers

Jake Rutter — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:57:43 +0000

If you are a web designer, front end developer and/or an open source web developer looking for a job or freelance work, there are many websites online with job postings targeted to just what you do. Here is the top [...]

Beautiful Cascading Stylesheets

Jake Rutter — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:31:51 +0000

One issue, that Im sure everyone encounters is how to correctly layout your website with CSS. Should I call the top part of my site, #header or #header-top, or #top-of-the-page-header. There are so many choices, but the real aim here [...]

CSS Naming Standards

Jake Rutter — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:36:00 +0000

List Items and Background Images

Jake Rutter — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:05:42 +0000

Today I learned a new trick, instead of using the list-style-image to declare your image in a list like so:ul {list-style-image:url("bullet.gif");} This method is limited in placing your image, because you can\’t move around where it appears. It will appear [...]

CSS3.info

Jake Rutter — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:44:24 +0000

Recently, I was invited by an online friend, Joost de Valk, to participate and help build css3.info, the first real informational guide to CSS3. CSS3 wont be fully supported for at least a couple of years, but we will be [...]