Tufte-Style Book. Description: This book template has been designed to conform to Edward R. Tufte’s design style, used in his books and handouts. The most defining feature of this design is the large margin on every page and extensive use of sidenotes. This layout means that the central column of text is uncluttered since further descriptions and citations are housed in the margin. This template consists of two compilable templates: the documentation template – main.tex and the minimal template – book_1_template.tex. Original Authors: The Tufte-LaTeX class and documentation template were originally created by the Tufte-LaTeX Developers. Preview: Real-World Example: A draft book called Number Theory has been written using this style by Sean Sather Wagstaff based upon notes from a course taught by Benedict Gross in 1999. . { Preview NumberTheory PDF } Open Template for Free Editing Online: Open in WriteLaTeX Download Template: { Download .zip } { Preview Documentation PDF } { Preview Minimal PDF }
Tools for making a paper | Will Lowe. Since it seems to be the fashion, here’s a post about how I make my academic papers. Actually, who am I trying to kid? This is also about how I make slides, letters, memos and “Back in 10 minutes” signs to pin on the door. Nevertheless it’s for making academic papers that I’m going to recommend this particular set of tools.
I use the word make deliberately because I’m thinking of ‘academic paper’ broadly, as the sum of its words, analyses, tables, figures, and data. In this sense, papers can contain their own replication materials and when they do it should be possible in a single movement to rerun a set of analyses and reconstruct the paper that reports them. To get anywhere near that goal, I use a mix of latex, its newer bibliography system biblatex, and the R package knitr. Here’s how this currently works… Since I write in latex I have texlive installed, in the gargantuan but friendly form of Mactex. My basic paper template starts like this Input encoding: UTF-8. Why? #! LaTeX/Basics. 50 Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Typography is elegant when it is attractive and communicates the designer’s ideas. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective in supporting the overall design.
Designers are always exploring different techniques with type: some use images or sIFR to produce very beautiful typography, while others prefer CSS alone to get the typography just right. Today, we will look at 50 most useful typographic tools, techniques and resources for creating effective and expressive designs. We will also look at some hands-on typography tools that help designers and developers learn how to style their Web content, test it interactively and see the changes instantly. These tools are great for experimenting with different font types for your website.
Please feel free to suggest further tools and resources in the comments to this post. And follow us on Twitter You may want to take a look at the following related articles: 1. Default Mac OS X 10.4 fonts list (via Elementiks) 2. Automatically backup to Skydrive « Nysics Clubhouse. Note: This post is now outdated and has been replaced with a newer one. Check it out: Automatically backup to SkyDrive 2.0 Finally, a way to backup to Windows Live Skydrive! Here’s what you need: _ A Windows Live Skydrive Account _ Gladinet (Read my post on how to install and configure it) _ Comodo BackUp _ At least 10GB’s of free temporary storage(I’m barely surviving 8GB’s of free storage) _ DSL or higher(I’m using DSL, and it stinks.
Dialup users: forget it.) Now that Skydrive has 25GB’s of storage, you start to wonder why that there isn’t a free backup solution. Skydrive First, if you haven’t already, sign up for a Windows Live Skydrive account(a Windows Live ID). If Skydrive wants you to upload stuff, click “Cancel”. Gladinet Now it’s time to install Gladinet. Comodo I’ve search long and hard to find a backup program that would work with Gladinet. First, click here to download the file. After your computer has restarted, open Comodo(It’s probably on the desktop), and click the button. Web 2.0 Design Guide - Web Design. In this tutorial, I describe various common graphic design elements in modern web “2.0” design style. I then attempt to explain why they work (i.e. why they have become common), as well as how, when and where you might use each element in your designs.
It follows on from my Current Style article, and analyses in greater depth the design features of the current “Web 2.0” design style. To learn how to design Web2.0 sites yourself, you must read “Save the Pixel – The Art of Simple Web Design”, which is a comprehensive guidebook to the principles and techniques of Web2.0 design. Summary of Best Web Design Features The list below is a summary of many of the common features of typical “Web 2.0” sites. Clearly, a site doesn’t need to exhibit all these features to work well, and displaying these features doesn’t make a design “2.0” – or good!
I’ve already addressed some of these factors in my introductory Current Style article. Best Website Design? Web 2.0 ?! Best Web Design Features 1. When? Always! 2.