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Chunky Checker: Some CSS3 Fun
Jan 16th
In keeping with my New Year’s resolution to not get involved in “black-hole” projects so that I have more flexibility to pursue fun stuff on a whim, I whipped up a fun experiment in CSS3.
The Main IdeaIf you design a lot of forms, you know that radio and checkbox lists are hard to style. And no matter how perfectly you lay them out, they are still just plain boring. I thought it would be fun to make checkbox and radio lists a bit more fun by going an entirely different route, and by getting a bit more 3D.
Enter “Chunky Checker.” This set of styles takes an ordinary list of checkboxes or radio buttons and converts them into a super-chunky 3D list. As the radios/checkboxes are activated, the particular segment of the list transforms, creating a “depressed” look, sort of as if a button was physically pressed.
The MarkupThis approach is completely, 100% CSS and HTML–no JavaScript whatsoever. Moreover, it uses a pretty standard markup. The following is all that’s needed to recreate the demos:
<fieldset> <legend>Favorite Color:</legend> <input type="checkbox" name="color" value="Red" id="red" class="red"/> <label for="red">Red</label> <input type="checkbox" name="color" value="Orange" id="orange" class="orange" /> More >
In Memoriam
Nov 13th
Today, my family celebrates the life and commemorates the death of my grandfather, O. Dean Watson. Although I was unable to attend the memorial service, I wrote a few thoughts that I shared with my family.
Grandpa, you lived your life full of virtue–anyone who met you, and especially those who knew you well and loved you dearly, could immediately see that. You lived daily with immense compassion, purposeful integrity, and limitless generosity. Your words were always graced with good will, and you found—and brought out—the best in everyone, revealing to family, friends and strangers alike the love of God which filled your heart and soul.
And as if these great virtues were not sufficient, your life was marked indelibly by the deep faith which you held out for all to see. In good times and in bad, in rejoicing and in suffering, you always demonstrated the abiding trust you had in the promises of our Heavenly Father, a trust which you worked tirelessly and to your final days to cultivate in your family, your friends, and every person with whom you had a moment’s opportunity to fellowship. Even in the face of death, your confidence did not waiver, and courageously you More >
Spam of Biblical Proportions
Sep 13th
I recently had several comments like this left on an old blog. I have reproduced the offending comment, mostly untouched save for corrections of the more offensive grammatical errors
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