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Math is beautiful. Does that sound a little strange? I sure thought so when I first started designing. Math is so rigid and often times boring, or so I thought.
The Golden Ratio in Web Design | Nettuts+
Today I’m proud to announce that a “Responsive template” is now available on Initializr ! It will help you dealing with all the various devices used to display your site. Mobiles, tablets, netbooks, laptops, desktop monitors, HUGE desktop monitors… Making your site work correctly on all these devices is a real nightmare.
Initializr: With Great Templates Comes Great Responsivity! | @verekia's blog
Mobile Web User Experience Best Practices | Mobile Web Best Practices
Designing user experiences for the mobile web is challenging. Designers need to account for the enormous variance of capabilities and features of mobile devices. More importantly, they need to help users achieve goals in a hard-to-define mobile context.
Art and the Web: Drawing: Part II | Think Vitamin
I strongly believe every web professional should possess some degree of artistic skill. The ability to draw allows us to quickly mockup a page layout or a visual idea and share it with others. In our domain of abstract ideas and fuzzy logic, drawing is capable of communicating many things that mere words cannot. Furthermore, I say that drawing is a skill because I also believe that drawing is not something that people are born with or something that they pick up accidentally. Just like writing, drawing is something that must be practiced in order to be perfected.Using XML with MySQL
A growing number of applications today use data represented in the form of XML documents. XML use is on the rise because it is a simple ASCII format that has a well-defined yet extensible structure. As a result, many standardized XML processing tools has been written. What is the impact of these developments for users of the MySQL database system? MySQL has no native facilities for dealing with XML--does this mean we are left out of the XML movement? By no means.
Designers hold CSS close to their hearts. It’s just code, but it is also what makes our carefully crafted designs come to life. Thoughtful CSS is CSS that respects our designs, that is handcrafted with precision.
The Future Of CSS: Embracing The Machine - Smashing Coding
An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability - Smashing UX Design
Contrary to what you may read, peppering your form with nice buttons, color and typography and plenty of jQuery plugins will not make it usable.I’m going to make a bold prediction. Long after you and I are gone, HTML will still be around. Not just in billions of archived pages from our era, but as a living, breathing entity.
A List Apart: Articles: Semantics in HTML 5
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Learn how to develop web applications. Topics include markup languages, scripting languages, network protocols, interactive graphics, event-driven programming, and databases, and how they all work together. A practical introduction to Unix and command line utilities with a focus on Linux. Introduction to fundamental techniques for designing and analyzing algorithms, including asymptotic analysis; divide-and-conquer algorithms and recurrences; greedy algorithms; data structures; dynamic programming; graph algorithms; and randomized algorithms.How Disregarding Design Limits The Power Of Content - Smashing Magazine
It appears to be a reader’s market. More written content is freely available than ever before, accessible in just about every format you could imagine. If you want it on paper, you’ve got it. On screen?
Design: Iconography: Color | Think Vitamin
In this 5 minute video , we’ll learn how to color in the contour of an icon. Additionally, we’ll add some texture to make our icon more interesting at larger sizes. This video is from Think Vitamin Membership , a high-quality video training site, curated by us at Carsonified and Think Vitamin, with hundreds of short videos on topics like … New videos are added every week, so it’s a great way to stay up-to-date on all the latest technology and methods. Browse the entire library of videos .Mar 18, 11 In this article we will examine the type of UX person you are or will be. So join me for the first in a new article series. We will take a historical look at user experience, and then in future articles look more at your personal UX style.
UI DESIGN GUIDE – Web Application Design, Design Examples, Design Lessons
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There are two factors that make this a necessity. First, mobile device screens are so small that you really need to utilise all of the available space. Second, there are a lot of different screen resolutions out there.
10 tips for designing mobile websites | These Days Labs
Developers working on mobile web apps need to be able to test their apps or sites in all of the major mobile platforms. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of good resources online for how to go about this. You could pay for a service from a mobile testing company, like DeviceAnywhere , who provides access to a wide selection of real devices (using a virtual client). Or you could go the free route by installing a variety of SDKs and mobile phone simulators. Base Setup I’m developing on a Mac.
Browser Testing for Mobile Web Applications « Mike Brittain
In this tutorial, we are going to build a blog page using next-generation techniques from HTML 5 and CSS 3. The tutorial aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them. If you already know HTML and CSS, it should be easy to follow along. HTML 5 is the next major version of HTML.