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Skittlish Tips'n'Tricks

• Change the classes for the body tag to set your default site style. also change these in the app.js file (line 66).
• Remove the scripts and the #options div if you don't want the option switcher.
• The top menu shows the home section and the sections that are not blogs.
• Email me at evil@che.lu if you have any questions.
• Happy hacking!

Say you were to start compiling data meaning to form qualify-able value measurements. During this effort you may surmise certain characteristics of ambitious laziness. One time when these dudes in suits and shiny smiles tried to get me to carry rocks for their amway pyramid one of them used this play on words in his argument to convince me to get everyone I know to buy cleaning products and this awful chocolate-oat-wallpaper-paste snack food. There were other products, but that really doesn’t pertain to this story. His oratory kicker was the revelation that riches where apples on the trees of our orchard of friends. We could be rich I tell you rich if we would sell some soap, get some people to buy some soap and then convince them to sell some soap and before you would know it you’d have a suds army you could admire from atop your big ‘ol pile of money.

That my friends is the ambitiously lazy story. Now the actual post:

When rapidly developing an application you might, say, rapidly mock up an interface in photoshop to gain the confidence in transmutability of your concept to actual reality and approval from the client of your direction before code is written. Usually these mock-ups include screens of forms and other pretty things. Being how I be I’ve created a psd of generic form elements as they would look in a few major browsers with the default styling. I made a html file with the form mark up, opened it in a few different browsers, captured the screen, and compiled all of them into photoshop file, chopped, diced and pureed. TaDa! Screenshots are awesome!

Generic reusable form elements for rapid screen mock-up/pre-prototyping

Just the basics. Nothing fancy. These will be useful as a quick and dirty source of stock generic form elements. By no means is it a comprehensive compilation of all the available styles and/or elements and their multitude of configurations.

Garrett has some sweet documents for streamlining/standardizing other aspects of a project life cycle.