CSS Grid Generation with Sass

Thursday, 01.10.13 at 4:58 pm
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When it comes to writing the CSS for a big, complicated page, CSS Grid Systems are an invaluable tool. You get consistency across your code and speed in writing the CSS. There are plenty of options out there already, such as 960.gs, Blue Print, and Susy. However, using a third-party grid system isn’t always the […]

Why You Should Use Webfonts

Friday, 12.17.10 at 12:00 pm
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Cost of image production > Cost of web font licenses. (Okay, there are plenty of other great reasons, but this one is pretty hard to argue with)

Chop: Fall Flash Classes at SVA

Wednesday, 09.16.09 at 5:53 pm
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Fall is here and you know what that means, back to school time. This fall, Tim and I will both be teaching at School of Visual Arts. Tim will be teaching Basic and Advanced Flash Weekend workshop classes and I (Matthew) will be teaching an Advanced Flash Independent Project Actionscript class. The Independent projects class […]

Photoshop Photo Gallery Flash Detect Update

Friday, 05.29.09 at 2:25 pm
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A few years back the studio designed and developed the HTML and Flash Web Photo Galleries (WPG) that shipped within Adobe Photoshop CS2, CS3 and are optionally available for CS4. Despite the development constraints of the older WPG export engine, the galleries did (and still do) get a fair amount of use. I still see […]

5 Web Dev Tools I Can’t Function Without

Thursday, 05.14.09 at 2:22 pm
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All developer/designer types have a myriad of applications in their arsenal that they cannot live without. I am going to skip over the obvious ones: Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator and focus on a few deeper tracks that you may or may not have heard of. Textmateby Macromates http://macromates.com In it’s simplest form, Textmate is a plain […]

Welcome to the Internet…

Saturday, 03.14.09 at 4:13 pm
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Thanks for clicking by! We have grand plans for blog.choppingblock.com. This is the first release within the much hyped ROBOTS™ redesign of the studio site. Over the years, we have created dozens (if not ten bushels) of blogs and publication tools for clients and friends — it’s way beyond time we built one for ourselves. […]