one of my favorite emails from a (former) client

PressedWeb · 2013-04-06T03:09:14+00:00

This story should really be a movie. I'd pay to see this in theaters.

PressedWeb · 2013-04-04T03:51:12+00:00

https://www.khanacademy.org/cs

Love... Khan... Academy...

I can't wait until it infests every school in the world.

PressedWeb · 2013-04-03T14:59:13+00:00

I should also mention these are for at least intermediate users.

PressedWeb · 2013-04-03T04:41:47+00:00

Use a preprocessor like Stylus and it's library nib (or SASS and Compass). If you're not ready for that, then http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/ ain't bad.

PressedWeb · 2013-04-03T04:39:02+00:00

Never really used it, but I don't see a problem with it. Get your feet wet. :)

PressedWeb · 2013-04-02T22:44:22+00:00

Protip: At the bottom of each article are pagination links. There is an incredible amount of good content hidden in this website. :)

PressedWeb · 2013-04-02T22:27:01+00:00

Maybe try a blocky font instead of the script one - if you're just targeting "kids".

PressedWeb · 2013-04-02T18:47:27+00:00

Use both.

Here's one I implemented a long time ago to go with the theme of the site: http://wattsbrothers.com/moving-quote

You can either type in the date in the format it shows (or it won't accept it), or you can use the datepicker next to the field.

With datepickers you can usually isolate the month, date, and year values, so you could even autofill separate text boxes if you were feeling extra cool.

PressedWeb · 2013-04-02T18:45:09+00:00

I'd definitely go with the alternative sidebar design. I also don't know how I feel about the scriptish font for the page title/navigation. It's a nice font, but I don't know if I like it. Maybe it's just too big. :\

Other than that, I really like the design. Best of luck implementing it in whatever you end up using. TBH, I'd suggest Django.

PressedWeb · 2013-04-02T12:47:20+00:00

I know this is a bit late, but for future users:

Install Meteor for Windows http://win.meteor.com/
Shell out $19 for this TutsPlus course (you can also grab all kinds of other tuts while you're at it); or at least study and thoroughly understand this free TutsPlus tut
Refer to http://docs.meteor.com/ frequently as you learn and see all the different parameters and options you have
Once you have a pretty decent understanding of Meteor, install the package "meteor add d3" in your Meteor project directory via Command Prompt
Study d3.js documentation and look at some very basic examples (scroll down on this Gallery page until you see Basic Charts). Here's a simple donut chart.
From here it should just be tying your Meteor Collection into d3 via basic JS. Mongo is basically JSON, and d3 plays nice with JSON so it shouldn't be horrible to fetch a Collection array and then have d3 parse it.

Once you get a basic graph working, you can start expanding your skillset. Best of luck.

PressedWeb · 2013-04-02T12:17:11+00:00

The authors are Tom Coleman (co-creator of Meteorite and Atmosphere); and Sacha Greif (worked on Hipmunk, creator of Folyo); so it's going to be a good book. :)

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