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How to lose weight (in the browser) Best jQuery Plugins of 2012. Nearly 6 years after the initial release of jQuery, it’s more popular than been. This can mostly be attributed to the community that’s been built up around it. This community of developers is constantly building plugins that allow web developers and designers to easily add amazing functionality to their projects.

Continuing our “Best of 2012″ series, the focus this week is on jQuery plugins. Over the past year, we’ve seen a tons of great new plugins, which made choosing our favorites extremely difficult. Arctext.js Arctext.js is a jQuery plugin that let’s you do exactly that. Jquery Transit Super-smooth CSS3 transformations and transitions for jQuery — v0.1.3 SlabText A jquery plugin for producing big, bold and responsive headlines. stellar.js Parallax has never been easier. Get turn.js Is a plugin for jQuery that adds a beautiful transition similar to real pages in a book or magazine for HTML5. Flexslider 2.0 FlexSlider is an awesome, fully responsive jQuery slider plugin. Hammer.js iPicture. GuideGuide. Grille d’audit pour analyser et évaluer la qualité d’un site web. Pour évaluer la qualité d’un site web, on fait ce que l’on appelle : un audit. C’est un outil managérial qui permet de vérifier que votre site/blog/boutique en ligne répond correctement aux différentes « bonnes pratiques » et que celui ci est bien adaptés à votre cible : les internautes.

C’est audit facilitera grandement la conception de tous vos wireframes, spécifications fonctionnelles et assurer que le site répondent aux besoins du client. L’audit d’un site à une place très importante dans la phase de conception web. Pour vous aider nous avons découpez cet audit en 3 parties : TELECHARGER LA GRILLE D’AUDIT POUR SITE WEB (pdf) On peut ainsi différencier plusieurs dimensions dans cet audit : Pendant l’audit mettez vous à la place d’un utilisateur normal qui vient d’arriver.

Il faut également prendre en compte la particularité d’un blog ou bien d’un site de e-commerce qui ne répondent pas aux mêmes contraintes techniques, et aux mêmes attentes vis à vis des internautes. Cut&Slice me - FREE Photoshop plugin to export your assets. D3.js - Data-Driven Documents. Sneakpeekit.com, des gabarits papier pour esquisser vos sites réactifs. Lorsqu’on est dans la phase de création d’un site, il est toujours plus facile d’essayer des choses « à la main » sur papier.

Mais on perd beaucoup de temps à dessiner le gabarit sur papier quadrillé, pour toutes les tailles que l’on souhaite supporter pour son Webdesign. Le site Sneakpeekit.com propose des gabarits A4 à télécharger et imprimer pour un grand nombre de tailles courantes pour les sites réactifs (mobile, tablettes, navigateur, …) et pour différents systèmes de grilles connus. Les gabarits sont proposés en deux finitions, avec ou sans grille. Ils proposent des emplacements pour noter ses remarques, afin de ne rien oublier ou pour préciser un élément. Parfait pour gagner du temps et de la précision dans ses webdesigns et les définir comme des pros.

Téléchargez les gabarits à imprimer Sneakpeekit.com. Using the Rule of Thirds as a Grid Outline. Designers talk about grid structures all the time. It’s not surprising. Grids are the backbone of just about any design project. But what about the rule of thirds – a mathematically-based grid that can be traced to design projects that are hundreds of years old? Do designers think about it? The answer should be yes. The rule of thirds is an important grid concept that explains how people look at images, websites and other visual information. What is the Rule of Thirds? The rule of thirds is a three-frame wide by three-frame deep grid that can rest over an image and tell designers a lot about how eyes will follow the image or design. Each of the blocks in the rule of thirds grid I the same size (nine total blocks) but those blocks can change shape and size with each project. The grid helps designers with a few key points that may come as somewhat of a surprise.

The common path of the eye on a design is from top to bottom and then left to right.The best design is not always symmetrical. Photos. Cheat Sheet. Download cheat sheet as printable PDF A5 Syntax Child: > nav>ul>li Sibling: + div+p+bq Climb-up: ^ div+div>p>span+em^bq div+div>p>span+em^^bq Grouping: () div>(header>ul>li*2>a)+footer>p (div>dl>(dt+dd)*3)+footer>p Multiplication: * ul>li*5 Item numbering: $ ul>li.item$*5 h$[title=item$]{Header $}*3 <h1 title="item1">Header 1</h1><h2 title="item2">Header 2</h2><h3 title="item3">Header 3</h3> ul>li.item$$$*5 ul>li.item$@-*5 ul>li.item$@3*5 ID and CLASS attributes #header .title form#search.wide p.class1.class2.class3 Custom attributes p[title="Hello world"] td[rowspan=2 colspan=3 title] [a='value1' b="value2"] Text: {} a{Click me} <a href="">Click me</a> p>{Click }+a{here}+{ to continue} <p>Click <a href="">here</a> to continue</p> Implicit tag names .class em>.class ul>.class table>.row>.col All unknown abbreviations will be transformed to tag, e.g. foo → <foo></foo>.

Alias of html:5 <! A a:link a:mail abbr acronym, acr base basefont br frame hr bdo bdo:r bdo:l col link link:css link:print link:favicon link:touch link:rss link:atom meta meta:utf img c. Oh IE6 how we loved you, Bruce Lawson - Sud Web 2012. Typography Served :: Gallery. The Infinite Grid. Grid systems are a key component of graphic design, but they’ve always been designed for canvases with fixed dimensions. Until now. Today we’re designing for a medium that has no fixed dimensions, a medium that can and will shape-shift to better suit its environment—a medium capable of displaying a single layout on a smartphone, a billboard in Times Square, and everything in between. We’re designing for an infinite canvas—and for that, we need an infinite grid system. It’s common to think of responsive design as multiple layouts: mobile, tablet, desktop, etc. The problem is the “in-between” sizes tend to suffer, so we end up with layouts that look great at specific dimensions (320, 720, 960), but less than great for everything else.

So while a site may look perfect on your 640x960 iPhone 4, it’s going to be a bit off on a visitor’s Nokia Lumia (480x800), or the 685x308 browser window you have open on your desktop. What is an infinite grid system? States#section2 Components#section3 1. 2.

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Devenez incollable sur la macro-typographie pour le web ! Blog Archive » Grids improve site performance. CSS grids can improve performance? How so? The Importance of Page Weight The weightier your page the slower the user experience. There are a few notable ways you can ease this correlation, but for the most part keeping your pages snappy is about being absolutely relentless when reducing and optimizing code. CSS is no exception. On the other hand, a blank white page with unstyled black text and blue links would be very fast — but no one would care to visit. The cure for bloat Finding common denominators in our site will allow us to standardize the way we group related content, and the classes we use to style that content. Where do grids fit into the mix? Grids are one of the simplest examples (to see, not to code) of patterns that can be abstracted across a site.

Image 1: Grids can be used to define the structure of the main column of a page. Image 2: The same grids being used to break up the content within the body of a module. The Requirements & Constraints Redefining the template.

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Broken promises of HTML5 and what’s next? – a presentation at HTML5DevConf. Yesterday Mozilla attended the HTML5 Developer Conference in San Francisco, California to give a keynote presentation. The very packed schedule of the conference already covered a lot of topics around the subject matter, which is why we considered it worth while to contribute with a talk that told tales from the trenches of advocating HTML5 instead of going into technical details.

Under the title of “Broken Promises of HTML5 and what’s next?” We reported some of the findings we had when talking to press and people outside the web enthusiast sphere. The Slides of the talk are available online and there is a screencast of the live presentation on YouTube. The organisers of HTML5DevConf promised to release the video recording in the next few weeks. Here are a few of the points covered to make it more interesting for you to check the 50 minute talk, in case you need more incentive: This talk covers a few ideas we can follow to turn the disappointment around.