Generators. jQuery Mobile. CSS3. Javascript. Build a responsive site in a week: designing responsively (part 1) HTML5. Responsive Navigation Patterns. Update: I’ve also written about complex navigation patterns for responsive design. Top and left navigations are typical on large screens, but lack of screen real estate on small screens makes for an interesting challenge. As responsive design becomes more popular, it’s worth looking at the various ways of handling navigation for small screen sizes. Mobile web navigation must strike a balance between quick access to a site’s information and unobtrusiveness. Here’s some of the more popular techniques for handling navigation in responsive designs: There are of course advantages and disadvantages of each method and definitely some things to look out for when choosing what method’s right for your project.
Top Nav or “Do Nothing” Approach One of the easiest-to-implement solutions for navigation is to simply keep it at the top. Pros Cons Height issues- Height matters in mobile. Responsive navigation breaking to multiple lines on small screens In the Wild Resources The Select Menu The Toggle In The Wild. Page Description Diagrams. The page description diagram is a design artifact developed by Dan Brown to take design out of wireframes by describing content areas of the page. The approach provides functional specifications and interaction requirements, and lays out blocks of content without limiting the designer's ability to make decisions in the visual design.
They are not necessarily meant to replace wireframes, but may be used in conjunction with them Definitions The excerpt below is from Dan Brown's Boxes and Arrows article which describes the use of page description diagrams. "In a page description diagram, the content areas of the page are described in prose, as in a functional specification. With this approach, the diagram represented the two main issues: priority and content. Source: "Where the Wireframes Are: Special Deliverable #3. ", Dan Brown.
See Also. Creative Interaction Design Tools & Experiments - ZURB Playground - ZURB.com. Orbit: jQuery Image Slider Plugin from ZURB - ZURB Playground - ZURB.com. 1.3.0 (1/25/2012): Add custom events to allow control via custom JavaScript. Fixed intermittent loading issue on Chrome. Fixed IE issues. Refactored code to be more readable. Final version outside Foundation. 1.2.3 (3/17/2011): Fixed a number of issues including: Fixed issue of false parameters failingCan now have just 1 slide without it failingReorganized kit download to isolate "demo" pieces and core codeIncluded jQuery 1.5.1We've edited some of the docs here around "Content" slides 1.2.1 (2/3/2011): Changed caption styles to not break on different sized sliders and added documentation in here about positioning other than relative. 1.2 (1/20/2011): Content compatible, new loading animation, thumbnail navigation for bullets, animated captions, no more overflow hidden on the container, restructured the markup & js, changed the base UI, added callback, mouseover pause, better timer interactions and re-browser tested.