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textGauge jQuery Plugin
We've all been there. Fill in enough forms online, and you'll eventually hit the textarea that has a character limit. We've seen all the usual treatments: "The Keystroke Countdown," "The Arbitrary Letter Target," and the worst UX sin of all: "The Hard-Limit Hammer."
When I was faced with solving this particular problem recently, I decided that there had to be a better solution. There are two major problems to solve with a length limited input field:
- How to indicate what the limit actually is
- How to show the user how far into (or over) the limit they are
I believe that my textGauge plugin solves these problems.
Pure CSS Glossy Button (with a "Sliding Doors" fallback)
I like to challenge myself when I'm working on web presentation.
Last year, at work, the Creative department designed a new style of button to replace our old implementation. It was a fairly graphical button style, and I immediately began wondering if there was a way to avoid images and slicing. The typical solution to this problem is a sliding doors approach.
Read more: Pure CSS Glossy Button (with a "Sliding Doors" fallback)
My Workshop
Last summer, my wife and I bought our first home. One of our (my) requirements was a workshop, or at least the potential for a workshop. We're now many projects into the renovation of our home, but I wanted to share a teaser image of one of the rooms that I've spent a fair bit of time working on.
We called it "the cat pee room." You can't tell from this "Before" picture, but it was physically difficult to spend more than a few moments in the room, as the carpet was saturated with... well... you know. I'm sure our agent thought we were nuts...
Soon, I'll post some "After" pictures of my workshop—still a work in progress, but a major transformation nonetheless.
Home Wildlife
Last summer, my wife and I bought our first house. These are some photos of various tenants we found waiting for us.
