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findByName() for Flash AS3

I’m spoiled by jQuery. When I want to find an element and do something it’s as painless as $(element).doSomething(now);. Not so in Flash. God help you if the sprite you want is nestled inside a dynamically loaded SWF inside of a movieClip in a different layer. That’s, like, getChildAt()*10200.
This little guy has [...]

Elements of Design

ArtPiles is going to be a little bit more visual than FAP. I’m especially happy with the touches of leather and chrome. I think it’ll give the interface a sexy look without distracting from the content.

Almost but not quite

Why is it so difficult to graph a timeline? I always end up with something hideous like this. There has got to be a prettier way.

On Modal Alerts

I like asking you guys for input, it saves a lot of development time :D
SO. How about this? RPG-style modal alerts!

(I’d make them prettier, I promise)
Instead of a boring, lame-o modal alert “Are you sure you want to delete this?” you get this fun RPG styled alert box. And then I can [...]

Piles and Piles of Art

I can’t wait for Art Piles to go live.
There are so many wonderful ideas in this project. New interfaces, ways to sustain the community, privacy…
Okay! :DDD! I can’t help myself! I love solving difficult community problems through interface–it gives me the biggest design hard-on ever. Like, just before FAP closed, [...]

Taste Captcha

Here is my idea.
Instead of using lame word CAPTCHAs, I want to build a CAPTCHA that pulls the aggregate most funny and least funny images from http://thefunniest.info/
The CAPTCHA will present the user with 3 images. Only one of them is funny.
I used to be against using CAPTCHA that could discriminate against taste or mentally [...]

Logo work: Boy Country

I feel like every movie uses this font. The trick was to make it elegant and modern to stand out from other Collegiate-branded films.
I’m a big fan of the star motif and look forward to using them throughout the DVD packaging design.

Design Dilemma

studiomoh.com is going through some serious re-designs. I keep waffling on a fluid layout, fixed layout, vertical column VS horizontal, single-page VS segmented content…ugh.
Design dilemma.
Please excuse the current iteration of studio moh while I rest on the design.

Pure CSS LightBox, no Javascript (now supports IE5+)

Click here to preview the CSS LightBox
Finally, a lightbox that doesn’t require Javascript! And now it support IE5+!
The core of Multi-state CSS is the :target pseudo selector. When a user clicks a page-anchor the :target pseudo selector is activated, revealing the lightbox element.
IE5+ doesn’t support the :target pseudo selector, but it does support CSS expressions. [...]