Nimbupani Designs

Sexy CSS3 Buttons

Update: Chris Eppstein pointed out the obvious, a neat fancy buttons plugin for Compass that provides simple gradient fancy buttons without using an extra element in the markup.

I do not wear the mantle of Open Web Vigilante lightly. Granted, I may slack off now and then (who doesn’t?), I pay serious attention when claims of Extremely Fancy CSS3 Buttons are made.

Accessible CSS Barcharts

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When I worked on the design for HTML5Readiness, I felt guilty for not using a table to represent the data. So, when the 10K competition came along and I thought it would be a good idea to come up with an accessible and ready-to-use CSS bar-chart.

Book Reviews for July - Part 2

I have racked up too many books unreviewed, which means (un)fortunately means shorter reviews. Here goes:

Serious Play in Music

Like all middle-class Tamil children, I was also forced to learn classical music and dance. Thankfully, my parents did not press on with the dance classes (given all the expenses it involved) but my mom remained firm in her resolve to put me through Carnatic Music classes.

SVG is coming!

I am an SVG fanatic, in fact I was using SVG for implementing my final year project (which was to create a GPS system on a linux mobile device) in 2000. So yes, I am partial to SVG and cannot stop writing about it.

I have long bemoaned the persistent lack of love for SVG from browser vendors but these developments indicate that is no longer the case:

Wee! Marquee

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I am learning JavaScript and I detoured into learning jQuery. My intention is to learn jQuery by developing plugins :D This way, it would be a practical understanding of how to use jQuery and the experts among you might help me out by pointing out what could be made better.

Book Reviews for July 2010 - Part 1

I seem to be reading more and more Manga comics. I am in the middle of three manga series and they all are fantastic (Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Psycho, and Pluto) and I regret not reading manga comics earlier. I recommend all of these series!

Vignettes with CSS3 Box Shadows

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Paul Irish (why nobody else sends me such awesome stuff beats me), showed me yet another CSS3/HTML5 website.

Book Reviews for June 2010 - Part 2

It took me 2 weeks to get over jet lag from my marathon India trip. So, there are less books to review as I was finally sane enough to do other stuff :)

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