Keep the Rhythm: Vertical rhythm on objects having dynamic heights

That is a lot in one sentence, but basically it explains it all. Maintaining a vertical rhythm is hard enough by itself and takes a lot of time and thinking to accomplish.

The problem with maintaining a proper rhythm are objects (like images) that have dynamic heights. Like the images on this blog, or when you have clients uploading their content which isn’t perfectly resized / cropped to your line-height.

For this I created a jQuery plugin that fixes the rhythm: Keep the Rhythm.

Keep the Rhythm: Vertical rhythm on objects having dynamic heights

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jQuery plugin: Fullscreen Background

If you’re a webdeveloper or designer I am pretty sure you’ve run into the problem of people wanting to have “fullscreen content” or just background images that will stretch in the most optimal way to the users screen.
Lately I found that a lot of people are asking for fullscreen backgrounds, videos and other types on stuff. So to prevent myself from reinventing the wheel over and over again I made a small jQuery plugin, and thought you guys might like it too.

So here it is: Fullscreen Background for jQuery.

jQuery plugin: Fullscreen Background

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Kickstart app development for Spotify

So you’ve decided to go ahead and develop an app for Spotify. Great! Starting off might be a pain though if you’re not well informed.
In this article I’ll give you a boost in developing for Spotify and warn you for common mistakes I’ve made.

App development for Spotify is not hard! It’s mainly HTML, CSS and Javascript, which you are probably already familiar with.

Kickstart app development for Spotify

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