Getting Share Counts

Until we can get Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and Pinterest to sign a peace treaty and standardize on a common size for share buttons, their mismatched and unaligned buttons will continue to be a thorn in every designer’s side.

For now our best bet is to simply roll your own button with a share count for each service. Today I did a bit of digging and put together a quick Gist to get share counts using the platform’s APIs.

Check out Sharrre if you want a jQuery plugin that covers all the share buttons and much more.

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Dust Project

In an effort to shift from commercial to artistic work, photographer Ujin Lee captured a series of images of dust frozen in time as a visual symbol of life.  I would love to know how he technically captured these images.

Found on Hey! Hot Shot

On an unrelated note, check out this post on my site to see a working demo of my new jQuery Tumblr Photoset plugin.  This plugin lets you to maintain Tumblr’s awesome new photoset layout options at virtually any size—from 100px to 1000px wide.  You can also see this plugin in action on the Inspire Well theme, and by the end of the week it will be in use on all the other Style Hatch themes.  I’ll post more details on the plugin when I release it later this week.

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Lettering.js

A useful jQuery plugin developed by Dave Rupert and Trent Walton for the forthcoming Operation Condor, that splits an HTML element into its component letters, words or lines for easier CSS styling. From the announcement:

We developed a really simple, lightweight, easy to use jQuery plugin, we’re calling it “Lettering Dot JS”, and we’re releasing it today for free over on Github. Let me demo it for you: </stevejobs>

Reblogged from Matthew Buchanan

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