May 2009
3 posts
iPhone SDK Tutorial: Buttons and Alerts
This is the first of many iPHone SDK tutorials that I’ll be posting here, and on my YouTube channel. The first few tutorials are targeted at beginners who want to start learning how to code and create apps for the iPhone or iPod Touch with the iPhone SDK.
Download the SOURCE CODE for this project here.
In this tutorial I show you how to create a very basic iPhone / iPod Touch app that...
Typo Tips #1 - Colors & Quotes
This is the first of a few different posts I’ll be writing for Des Dot that will help you improve the typography in your web designs. Hope they help!
Never use black for text color
Always use a color other than black for your text/ font color. Black overpowers your design and can make the user feel weird and out of place. It’s not nearly as aesthetically pleasing as something else.
I...
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CSS: Rounded Corners/ Circles
Rounded corners are becoming more and more popular with web design lately, and so is CSS. We are trying to make it so that we use as few images as possible, because they can drastically decrease loading time.
That being said, here are two tips that will hopefully help.
1. Rounded corners The old fashioned way of creating rounded corners was to have images and background images. But, no fear! CSS...
April 2009
1 post
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Slots! A 3rd party iPhone game.
I’m creating a game for the iPhone, and I’m calling it Slots. It’s based off of a simple premice, a slot machine. I want to thank Dave Mark, and Jeff LaMarche for helping me build the foundation for the slot machine app and teaching me the fundamentals of iPhone App Development, with their book, Beginning iPhone Development Exploring the iPhone SDK, which can be found here.
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