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Advent Calendr

Today I’m launching Advent Calendr, a site that lets you turn your Tumblr blog into an advent calendar for Christmas!

You can easily customise how your calendar looks, share it with family and friends and take advantage of Tumblr’s scheduling and queue features to post something each day in December.

If you have a Tumblr account, just enter your details and you’re good to go! If you don’t use Tumblr yet, it’s quick and easy to sign up and you’ll have your calendar up and running in minutes.

The site is the culmination of a few months work and I’m pleased with how it’s turned out.

Check it out and let me know what you think in the…

Older Posts

AltFontPrev: The release of AltFontPrev, a JavaScript bookmarklet for previewing any site with the alternative fonts declared in its CSS.; Read Post; Posted: Jul 20, 08; In: JavaScript; 11 Comments
Blogging with Coda: What was planned to be a quick guide to replicating MarsEdit’s live preview feature in Coda. How time flies when you’re having fun! :); Read Post; Posted: May 24, 08; In: How-To's; 7 Comments
Too Little, Too Soon: The first post in the Life category, touching on the lack of posts the site has seen recently and what I aim to do about it.; Read Post; Posted: Apr 1, 08; In: Life; 5 Comments

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Sam Rayner is a 20 year old web developer from Birmingham, UK. When he’s not pushing pixels or grumbling about IE Sam enjoys music, sport, photography and writing about himself in third person. You can reach him at sam@samrayner.com.

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Responsive Web Design

A great article by Ethan Marcotte on refining fluid CSS layouts for different viewport sizes and resolutions. The example page is excellent.

May 25
Designing for iPad: Reality Check

An excellent discussion on designing user interfaces for the iPad by iA.

Apr 14
Tips on Combining Fonts from Hoefler & Frere-Jones

Great pointers on pairing fonts that work well together, and with gorgeous example pieces.

Mar 18
SublimeVideo

A beautiful video player built with pure HTML5 and JavaScript, soon to be released for non-commercial use. Move over Flash.

Feb 2
Atlas: an IDE for Cappuccino Apps

The 280 North guys are doing some insane things in your browser.

Jan 27

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