We are rebuilding our site—live at building.seesparkbox.com. Join us, real-time, as the site evolves. It will be ugly at times. Sometimes it will be downright broken. But it will always be transparent and real. You can even check under the hood of the public repo on Github and share your ideas. Crazy, are we? Read why we're doing this.
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Web design and development for beyond the desktop. Ben will be sharing about prototyping style.
Two-day conference full of intensely educational speakers who care about code, content, usability and design.
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We, the 2013 Sparkbox Apprentices, have built Threeve: an app to help you track your Jeopardy score, share your total, and finally achieve the acclaim you so rightfully deserve. All in a beautifully designed and written responsive Ruby and Rails web app.
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Jeremy shares a bit of his finely-tuned personal workflow and methods for efficiently maintaining bookmarks, notes, and more.
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Our second round of apprenticeships are coming around quick, and we're ready to accept applications from hungry web grasshoppers starting now.
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A quick update of how 2013 is shaping up for our traveling RWD workshop now in its second year.
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We're rebuilding the Sparkbox website in public. It's sort of like those nightmares you've had of showing up to High School naked — only real. Are we crazy?
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Why do we offer them? We love what we do, we want to share with new talent, and we genuinely care about the future of the web.
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Ben has been working with Bearded's Matt Griffin on the best way to write media queries, and they are now looking for your help.
Read More| Posted by Ethan Muller
Love to flex your Vim muscles? Hate the copy, paste, repeat game when writing markup? Ethan has some time-saving exercises for you.
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A quick rundown of our responsive web design workshop tour across our little corner of the heartland. Complete with shameless plugs, shout-outs, and some reflection on what's next.
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After our first appearance at SXSW in 2012, we're ready for more. We humbly ask you to vote for our panels and bring us back to SXSW in 2013!
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Our second Build Responsively Workshop is in the books. A special guest appearance from the über smart Ethan Marcotte and some fantastic sponsors made for a fun two-day event.
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What's it like interning with Sparkbox? Pretty wicked awesome if you ask Summer 2012 interns Linnie and Ethan. (Technically, yes, we did pay them to say that.)
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Ben will be sharing a workshop on responsive web design at Refresh LX this September among some of our industry heroes.
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Drew's article on design process in the age of the responsive web was published to industry-leading Smashing Magazine this past week. Pretty awesome.
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Announcing our second responsive workshop, slated for July 9-10 in beautiful Columbus, Ohio.
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Ben reflects on takeaways from Orlando's 2012 Breaking Development conference.
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Andy shows how you can use Photoshop’s “Layer Comps” feature to mimic Fireworks’ helpful “States” functionality. It's pretty awesome.
Read More| Posted by Jän Ostendorf
Offscreen Magazine is a beautiful, old school look at players in the new digital world. Jän reviews issue number one, fresh from the printer.
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Our first ever Build Responsively workshop went even better than we could have hoped for. In no small part due to awesome attendees.
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Ben Callahan's slides from CodeMash 2012 on "Hands-On-Responsive and Adaptive Web Design."
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We pull our skeletons from their closets in this embarrassingly honest (and pretty funny) look at our first websites.
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Rob and Rob spent a thrilling day practicing code, and they came back with a cache of GitHub goodness.
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Ben and Rob share their favorite take aways from the 2011 Future of Web Design conference in New York City.
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We're pumped to share about our responsive web design one-day workshops beginning in February of 2012.
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Sparkbox's Rob Tarr will be joining the SXSW festivities in March. You should too!
Read More| Posted by Drew Clemens
Ben's session, "Hands-On Responsive and Adaptive Web Design," will be included in their design/UX track.
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The team has some ideas about new style properties and values they'd like to see in CSS. See anything you'd like on our wishlist?
Read More| Posted by Maria Norman
The fellas here at Sparkbox use quite an array of programming languages. Read on to see what they consider their favorite.
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Sparkbox is teaming up with Mediachase to offer a webinar on responsive web design in eCommerce. It's free, so sign up today!
Read More| Posted by Rob Harr
Tutorial on how to use Gists from GitHub to share code in ExpressionEngine2 content.
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I had an opportunity to attend this year's An Event Apart in Atlanta and this is a summary of what I took away from day two of the conference.
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Lots of conferences are out there to help you get better at making websites. One of the best is put on by the folks from A List Apart and it's fittingly called An Event Apart. I had an opportunity to attend this year's event in Atlanta and this is a summary of what I took away from day one of the conference.
Read More| Posted by Rob Harr
Is it okay to mix and match server languages for a single solution?
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The entire Sparkbox team gives a brief book report. Take a gander for some suggestions on what you should read next.
Read More| Posted by Rob Tarr
Ryan and I have been debating the use of lists in the HTML nav element. Read my take on why it's beneficial to use lists.
Read More| Posted by Ryan Buttrey
Last week in the Sparkbox office, the question came up whether or not it is necessary to use lists inside the HTML5 nav element.
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Sparkbox is proud to help bring the Build Guild to Dayton, Ohio. The Build Guild is a national group of local meetups for web geeks where there are never presentations but always great conversations, instead.
Read More| Posted by Rob Harr
Call it what you may: skill development, research, or internal projects. At their core, these are all really just practice. As professionals in an ever evolving industry we have to practice our craft.
Read More| Posted by Rob Tarr
Our incredibly talented designer Ryan Clark has a tendency to create these really cool looking select box UIs. They're awesome, except for the fact that they're impossible to style. So we decided to create our own that fit the needs of both us and our clients.
Read More| Posted by Andy Rossi
The more tools you have at your disposal, the easier it becomes to complete a project. Cars can't be repaired solely with a flat head screwdriver; houses can't be built with only a hammer in your hand. More tools are needed for your capabilities to be complete. But when it comes to digital toolsets, things might have the opposite effect.
Read More| Posted by Andy Rossi
Since we started using ExpressionEngine more frequently on web projects, we realized that we had to find a set of useful add-ons that should be a staple for every installation we complete. Here is that list.
Read More| Posted by Rob Tarr
Testing the chaining of jQuery find/children methods vs. chaining the selector of one method.
Read More| Posted by Ryan Clark
Dive into HTML5 is a fantastic resource for anyone trying to wrap their head around the new features of the HTML5 spec. Through a series of concise and well-written chapters, Mark Pilgrim provides an easy-to-understand resource for designers and coders alike.
| Posted by Maria Norman
The whole team made it to An Event Apart in San Diego this year. We got smarter so we can serve you better.
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