Benjamin Charity

I've built for...

  • The Home Depot
  • Digital Assent
  • NCR
  • InComm
  • Aymes-Wilson
  • NFL
  • Turner
  • The Campus Style
  • Aimee Herr Schier
  • Case-Mate

What I do...

  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • SEO
  • jQuery
  • Backbone.js
  • Platform Agnostic Development
  • SVG
  • Canvas
  • Photoshop
  • Git [GitFlow]
  • HAML & SASS
  • WordPress
  • Tumblr

Working on...

  • Ruby
  • Project Management
  • Ruby on Rails
  • UX Design

I write code. I design. I worry about how fast websites load. I explore the way people interact with technology. I pay attention to the direction of the web and build according to where it's headed. I build for the big players; but I never leave out the little guys. I write about the things that make a developer's life awesome.
I lead the way.

Green Upload Button

This button was created for a web application but it was cut before the site went to production. I really liked the button so I decided to work it up anyway and see what I could create…

January 13th 2012

Clean Home Button

The second button that I chose to recreate is a very beautiful, minimalistic button created by @Norm. His UI collection contains some truly amazing work. I am sure that I will be tackling a few more of his button designs throughout these posts…

January 9th 2012

Red Push Button

In an attempt to buff up my CSS3 skills and just keep myself thinking 'outside the box' I've decided to start a run of CSS3 button posts. In these posts I will try to recreate buttons that I have found using only code. These may not always being semantic or even reasonable, but they should be interesting and a good excersize in CSS3…

January 5th 2012
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My Timeline

  • 04 Graduated high-school with a 4.0 Not yet a nerd
  • 05 Learned music inside and out Began a 3yr run of arranging music
  • 06 Finished certification through the International Sports & Sciences Association
  • 07 Georgia Highlands College [transfered to SCAD]
  • 08 Savannah College of Art & Design [dropped out when I realized I learned faster on my own]
  • 09 Continued buying books and learning new things
  • 11 Joined the MaxMedia team to help move them towards a platform agnostic development philosophy