Posts by Rick Murphy

About Rick Murphy Web/Mobile development and design based out of downtown Seattle. Follow me on Twitter or Dribbble.

Test retina iPhone layouts in actual size using Dropbox.

Dropbox is great for testing retina iPhone mockups. Your design files are twice the size of the final product and it’s important to view them within the context of the device.Create an alias/shortcut to your Dropbox testing folder on your … Continue reading

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Google Instant now with Preview

Awesome. I guess. Although Ask.com had this same feature in May of 2006. Ask.com even had a commercial about thisgame-changer yet “Binoculars” didn’t really do much for the service. I never found Binoculars useful. You could click an icon to … Continue reading

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Posted in Design, Search Engine Optimization

The End Times Are Near

Almost done! We’re cleaning up bugs and spell checking articles. We’ll make some sort of announcement very soon. Sorry about all the lorum ipsum and such. It wont be much longer.

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Chrome has an inset box-shadow bug

Rendering fancy buttons in CSS3 is completely feasible with modern browsers. It’s less expensive on page load and you can accomplish popular button treatments with CSS border-radius, gradients and box-shadows. I was building a button the other day that used … Continue reading

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Posted in CSS3, HTML5

This is How You Have an Idea.

Kill your timid notion of creativity with a semi-sort of comic by writer/designer Frank Chimero.

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