Entries in the ‘Design’ Category

Introducing Poncho: a simple weather app for Android and iPhone

Introducing Poncho: a simple weather app for Android and iPhone

Poncho is a dead simple mobile web app for viewing current and next-day weather conditions. It works on Android and iOS, although it’s tailored for non-tablet smartphone devices like Android phones, iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a mobile web app instead of a native app, so it may work on even more platforms, but I haven’t tested it on anything else. If you go to app.getponcho.com on your device’s browser, you can bookmark and/or add the app to your homescreen and run it virtually just like a native app.

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An Experiment in HTML5 and CSS3

An Experiment in HTML5 and CSS3

A couple months ago I decided it was about time that I jumped on the HTML5 bandwagon. I really hadn't had any real world experience building anything in HTML5, and had only used a few CSS3 properties as progressive enhancements. I really wanted to take some time to design and build something awesome - without having to worry about the elephant in the room, *cough* Internet Explorer *cough*.

Unfortunately, I didn't have a whole lot of unique content laying around that could […]

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