Jason Taetsch
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Jason Taetsch

build with chrome
Fun StuffGoogle Tools & Apps

Who hasn’t spent hours building and designing houses, castles, pirate ships and entire  cities out of LEGOblocks? The team at Google Chrome has taken the LEGO-obsession to the next level with the Build With Chrome application for Google Maps. Build With Chrome let’s users construct a LEGO building with any

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Fun StuffSocial Media & NetworkingTwitter ToolsWeb Design, Development

Set your website apart from the pack with a custom set of social media icons from Tony Thomas of MediaLoot. This icon pack includes 24 custom social icons from the most popular social networks with their logos redesigned as postage stamps for a classic design theme. Each icon comes as

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CSSWeb Design, Development

Sprites allow designers to load one large image and display only a portion of that image at a given time, saving load time by including all the desired images for a webpage into one big graphic that loads at one time.   While the CSS code gives the designer the

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FontsOpen Source & APIsWeb Design, Development

Fonts can add a touch of personality, class and style to a webpage, however browser restrictions limit which fonts can be natively displayed to a visitor. The is a free interface that gives designers access to a huge library of free fonts that can be quickly implemented on any page.

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HTML5Mobile, ResponsiveWeb Design, Development

Older browsers are incompatible with the latest web languages and design standards. They cannot handle the same type of queries that the latest browsers can easily handle. The team at Visualidiot.com put together the Responsive IE6 tool so that users with legacy browsers like IE 5, 6, 7 can visit

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Content & WritingCSSWeb Design, Development

There are a number of methods for displaying content on a webpage from simple static options to complex features like jQuery sliders and carousels. However displaying a large amount of text-laden content on a page poses specific challenges to designers. The team at Tympanus put together this tutorial for designers

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Social Media & NetworkingWeb Design, Development

Social media icons have become commonplace on websites of all shapes and sizes, from personal blogs to corporate home pages. While some prefer icons that standout, other designers would rather have the icons blend seamlessly into a page’s overall design theme. The crew at CreativeNerds put together this mini-icon set

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