Geoff Muskett. Blog.
A personal scrapbook, where I post progress on current projects, scribbles, code snippets I've found useful, maybe a photograph or two, and anything else web / graphics / art that I find inspiring.
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Sunday 13th May 2012
Had some fun designing a poster for my Nephew’s birthday recently…
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Friday 6th April 2012
Instagram on Android, my new addiction.
I have an HTC Sensation. I’m not complaining about it - apart from the battery life it’s a good device. That doesn’t stop my envy of people with an iPhone 4. Here’s why: it’s as beautiful to look at as it is to use, it’s one of those rare manufactured products that evokes an emotional connection, the tech spec is now up there with other top phones and instagram is only available on iOS…
…Scrap that last one. My long wait for Instagram to open its doors to Android users has ended! This is huge news. I’m sure some iPhone people will feel like we’re unwanted guests at their exclusive party. They’ll get over it.
For the last four days I’ve been looking at the world through the lens of a camera - well, through the battery draining screen of my HTC Sensation. My phone now needs a midday charge to keep up with this instaddiction.
I certainly don’t claim to be a photographer of any description, but I’m enjoying the simple but creative point-click-filter way of documenting our stunning surroundings. Who knows, maybe I’ll get an interesting snap or two along the way.
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Monday 19th March 2012
Now live: www.theslategiftcompany.co.uk
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Monday 19th March 2012
www.theslategiftcompany.co.uk online store has launched! These guys are a really nice company that make beautiful products from high quality reclaimed slate.
The job was design and build from the ground up, from logo & identity to website build using Shopify.
The process contributed, as always, to the end product. I took a slightly different approach this time because the clients primary concern was making a site the was really easy to use, a philosophy every website owner and designer should take on. I’ll write about this in a future post…
For now, go check out www.theslategiftcompany.co.uk
(Source: geoffmuskett)
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Monday 5th March 2012
My daughter’s 4th birthday party invites :-)
Crow quill and watercolours.
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using jQuery pathname to assign a class or change an element based on URL
Monday 1th February 2012
This is a pretty useful one, I use it quite often.
I’m currently building a navigation which has an icon above each link. The icon is a background image that contains a transparent and non-transparent versions (CSS sprite). I want the background position to be showing transparent unless the user is on the page which the link refers to.
So, this looks at the URL and assigns it to a variable:
var page = $(location).attr(‘pathname’);
And this checks against the variable and moves the background to show the non-transparent icon. ‘navFirst a’ is the first link in the navigation, ‘navSecond a’ is the second etc.
if (page == ‘/’) {
$(‘.navFirst a’).css({backgroundPosition:’0 0’});
} else if (page == ‘/collections/tableware’) {
$(‘.navSecond a’).css({backgroundPosition:’0 0’});
} else if (page == ‘/collections/weddings’) {
$(‘.navThird a’).css({backgroundPosition:’0 0’});
}
Job done!
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ie7 margin: 0 auto; css fix
Sunday 7th February 2012
God knows why, but ie7 doesn’t like this simple piece of css. Here’s a workaround for your ie7 stylesheets..
body {text-align:center;}
#wrapper {text-align:left;}
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white space under the facebook like button
Monday 1th January 2012
This seems to be a common problem. Using the iframe version of the facebook ‘like button’ social plugin creates white space underneath.
Firstly it’s probably better to use the HTML5 version of the code, but if you must use an iframe, this is what you get:
The fix is simple, just go into the code and add height=”30”
Here’s the code:
<iframe height=”30” frameborder=”0” scrolling=”no” src=”//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geoffmuskett.co.uk&send=false&layout=standard&width=450&show_faces=true&action=like&colorscheme=light&font&height=80”></iframe>
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Saturday 14th January 2012
Perranporth. By Geoff Muskett
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Friday 6th January 2012
Thanks to everyone for all the great feedback on this piece, it has inspired me to create an ongoing series sea life paintings, watch this space!
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Friday 30th December 2011
Michael Stipe by Geoff Muskett. Brush pen on tea stained paper 7”x10”.
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Monday 26th December 2011
The Proclaimers. By Geoff Muskett.
Brush pen on paper 420mm x 297mm
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Monday 26th December 2011
Seahorse. By Geoff Muskett.
Watercolour and ink on paper 297mm x 420mm.
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Friday 23rd December 2011
Wash & Snow, extra dandruff shampoo for that Christmas feeling
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Friday 16th December 2011
Christmas cards are back from the printers! (well they have been for a few days but hey). Bit late but if you’d like one, drop me an email geoffmuskett@google.com, £1 each :-)
These are printed locally on 100% recycled card from Devon.
All images, design, and art © Geoff Muskett
