My name is Clayton McIlrath and I am an entrepreneur currently living in CO. I personally enjoy the process of learning, exploring, and doing all things creative as well as sharing my experiences with others. Being an entrepreneur and business owner, I hope that my experiences may help someone else start their own venture and find success and freedom as I have! Feel free to contact me anytime for questions or opportunities.

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Posts Tagged ‘front-end’

Tip of the Day: CSS Formatting

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One thing I really hate about agile front-end dev is the lack of formatting standards between devs. Some developers block their rules, others keep everything on one line. Some indent their rules, others don’t. The list goes on and on. I have a list of formatting rules that my team has adopted and all the [...]

Tip of the Day: Mobile Touch Events

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I recently got into a project that was a bit over my head. I had to build out a map that will work on desktop, mobile and tablets the same, but I quickly ran into issues tracking touch events in mobile Safari. All of the testing I was doing in iOS5 (beta) was working the [...]

Introduction to Flash and ActionScript

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A tutorial and explanation of Adobe Flash basics, understanding palletes and layout of the program. This tutorial will also walk step-by-step through actionscript and how actionscript is integrated into a flash animation using symbols and objects.

jQuery Lightbox / Modal Plugin

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There are SO MANY different types of lightbox scripts in the wild, and while most of them are absolutely fantastic (shadowbox being one of my favorites) most of them are very limited in the control that they give you over the style, function and code. To make things worse, most of these lightbox scripts are also 5k or bigger, which is 5k more than you need sometimes. If you’re like me, and you do a lot of customization or want to tweak your code to be as fast as possible, then you’ll want this simple little jquery lightbox plugin. Style your lightbox exactly how you’d like and then simple invoke the modal() function and you’ll be able to trigger the lightbox.

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