An Event Apart and a Designer’s View of the Web

Posted on September 23, 2011 by ChrisNager

Note: I wrote this article for my agency blog. This is a copy of the the original post to keep on my personal blog. See the original here on the Luckie ReThink Tank.

Luckie Digital Designer Chris Nager, right, with CSS guru Eric Meyer
Luckie Digital Designer Chris Nager, right, with CSS guru Eric Meyer

Thanks to Luckie & Company, I experienced one of greatest opportunities of my lifetime. In June, I represented my agency at a Web design conference in Atlanta, An Event Apart. It featured speakers that lead the Web industry like An Event Apart co-founders Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer. I’d like to share with you some of the most important things I took away from the conference.
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CSS3 ::selection background color trick

Posted on September 9, 2011 by ChrisNager

Ever wanted your CSS ::selection background color to match your page background color? To achieve this, simply set your ::selection rgba background color alpha channel to .996 (.99609375 to be exact). I figured this out through trial and error with the Chrome inspector.

This method works for Webkit browsers. All other browsers seems to handle this effect just fine with the ::selection alpha channel set to 1.

See my code here:

.selection-example p:nth-child(2n) {
  background: #0cf;
}

.selection-example p::-moz-selection {
  color: #fff;
  background: rgba(0,204,255,1);
}

.selection-example p::selection {
  color: #fff;
  background: rgba(0,204,255,.99609375);
}

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Chris Nager 2012 (Responsive Design)

Posted on August 18, 2011 by ChrisNager

Chris Nager 2012 mock campaign site
This is a mock campaign site I set up for myself to express some creativity and practice my responsive designing. Responsive web design is a way of building websites where the content is the driving force and the design adapts to the users device, whether it be a laptop computer or a mobile phone. See my presidential campaign site and try out the responsive design by resizing your browser window.
chrisnager.com/forpresident/2012

ChrisNager.com v2 is live

Posted on June 12, 2011 by ChrisNager

This has been a project I have been working on putting off for a long time now. Poke around a bit. Let me know what you think. Enjoy your experience? Give ChrisNager.com a “Like” or send a tweet about it.

ChrisNager.com will forever be in a state of constant improvement. See any bugs? Contact me via email, twitter, facebook, linkedin, skype or leave a comment below. I appreciate you taking the time out of your day to visit and explore my new portfolio site. Cheers!

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