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• Expression Newsletter Article - A Step-by-Step Introduction to Styling, Templating, and Animating in Expression Blend

  Just a note to say my first part of a six part Silverlight tutorial for Expression Newsletter has just been sent out, you can read the full tutorial here: http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/dd279541.aspx - hopefully after this tutorial you will be Read More... Posted 19 November 2008 16:37 by felix.corke | 1 Comments Filed under: design, silverlight, Expression Blend, tutorial

• Silverlight and Flash side-by-side font display comparison

  Nothing too exciting about this, I am building a Silverlight project for a client and thought I'd compare how the Flash player and the Silverlight plugin handle font display. Without tweaking any advance settings, here they are - guess which is which Read More... Posted 03 November 2008 21:31 by felix.corke | 0 Comments Filed under: design, silverlight, flash, fonts, typography

• Designing a Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Skin with Blend - Free download (with source files!)

  Click here to view the Silverlight Skin demo You will need the Beta 2 plugin from here . Since Silverlight 2 Beta 2 came out and trashed my Beta 1 skin that I'd lovingly hand-crafted in code view, and with the new June preview version of Expression Blend Read More... Posted 14 July 2008 10:36 by felix.corke | 2 Comments Filed under: design, silverlight, Silverlight 2 Beta 2, Expression Blend, Silverlight Skin

• silverlight streaming test!

  My first attempt at 3D animation using Maya, hosted with silverlight streaming Read More... Posted 25 March 2008 17:46 by felix.corke | 0 Comments Filed under: design, silverlight streaming, silverlight, 3d, maya, animation

• Remixing Mix - how I redesigned VisitMix.com with CSS

  Microsoft MIX is a trade show for emerging Microsoft technologies. It differs from most trade shows by lavishing millions of dollars on parties, scantily clad ladies and a hefty bunch of nerding and talking about nerding, in Vegas. Basically, if you're Read More... Posted 09 February 2008 15:34 by felix.corke | 6 Comments Filed under: redesign, design, xhtml, mix, css