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You are dedicated to your craft. You have spent countless hours honing your skills. You have a boundless curiosity for the underlying theories and structure of communicating ideas. You are the artist who finds the connections between your medium and other communications media. You are the artist who relishes in a setback; after all, it's a new opportunity to learn and grow. Inspiration is more than a haphazard mode of thought requiring constant nurturing: it is your natural state of mind.

Lean Into Art is where you go when you're ready to push yourself as an artist in new ways. As a place to learn communication arts online it combines an art-journaling approach, the best of live and time-shifted classes, and a recognition system that encourages students to finish projects, give feedback, even participate in teaching.

It's a big art challenge - that's why we put the enticing warning in the name. You have to lean into it.

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Jan202012

LIA Cast 20 - Working with CSS

DateFriday, January 20, 2012 at 2:11PM

So you've got a webcomic site set up, whether it's a Wordpress installation, a Tumblr blog, or you've hosted it on Posterous. But the notion of customizing it on your own creates a little bit of stress and uncertainty. Understandable, since most of us are artists, not programmer nerds!

Fortunately Rob Stenzinger likes to walk the imagined line between these two camps. This week he takes the time to take us through some basic ideas on how CSS works and demonstrates how to use these techniques by changing some elements on the Lean Into Art site and his own Tumblog. A great refresher course for those of us who are familiar with CSS, and a great intro piece for those of you who have never gotten under the hood to customize your website.

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Thanks guys. I am struggling with design for hosting my web comics and I forgot that I could reference other sites by looking at them. Some great tips here!

ArrrOOoo!

February 9, 2012 | Registered Commenterjahhdog

Hey Jahhdog!

This reply comes WAAAAAY late, sorry about that.

One of my favorite resources is to examine other's work. There are so many incredible designers, great features, interesting technologies, and approaches to bring it all together it's awesome to see both the surface impression of how it all looks and even more awesome to see how they're making it it work.

I applied this approach in making the Underwater Tomato Ninja game as part of my HTML5 Games workshop. I explored a variety of examples and options until finding one that clicked with the visual results and coding approach I wanted to take with the class: to show you can make a game without 3rd party stuff - just your web browser and a text editor. For the first version that meant using straight HTML, CSS, and Javascript (no jQuery) and I found Seb Lee-Delisle's approach to be a great fit.

Thanks for the comment, glad you dug it! We should revisit this topic at some point on the podcast!

July 26, 2012 | Registered CommenterRob Stenzinger
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