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UX Apprentice. Interface Builder for Bootstrap. A Beginner's Guide to HTML. How to create media queries in Responsive Web Design. Ryan Boudreaux shows how to create media queries that allow the web designer to target styles based on a number of device properties, such as screen width, orientation, and resolution.

How to create media queries in Responsive Web Design

In my last post on Responsive Web Design (RWD), I introduced what RWD is, demonstrated fluid grids, and explained how to make the conversion from the traditional styling of fixed pixels and percentages to proportions using The Marcotte Calculation: Target ÷ Context = Result. Figure A at left shows a web page from Chris Coyier's CSS Tricks as displayed in a simulated iPhone test with a device screen resolution of 320x480.

Ethan Marcotte's posts on Responsive Web Design and his new book, Responsive Web Design, has spearheaded the RWD movement. In this post, I will review how media types are evolving into media queries with RWD. Media queries The W3C answer to improving device-specific website response is the media queries specification. Figure B Demonstrating media queries @media screen and (max-width:480px) { Media Queries for Standard Devices. If you think responsive's simple, I feel bad for you son.

Media Queries for Standard Devices

We got 99 viewports, but the iPhone's just one. —Josh Brewer, March 10, 2010 A major component of responsive design is creating the right experience for the right device. How To Wireframe An iPhone App In Sketch. Working on a large project often requires you to design wireframes to communicate complex ideas before spending countless hours polishing.

How To Wireframe An iPhone App In Sketch

There are many tools for wireframing ranging from the simplistic Balsamiq to the highly collaborative Axure, which costs a fortune. Personally, I use Sketch, a powerful vector-based design tool. With features like Artboard, Linked Styles and Export Slices to PDF, Sketch is the perfect wireframing tool for designers obsessed with pixel perfection. Download The iPhone Wireframe UI Kit Wireframe iOS Dark Blue Wireframe iOS Blueprint Wireframe iOS Beige. Wordpress Themes.

CSS background image hacks. Emulating background image crop, background image opacity, background transforms, and improved background positioning.

CSS background image hacks

A few hacks relying on CSS pseudo-elements to emulate features unavailable or not yet widely supported by modern browsers. Demos: Example CSS background image hacks Pseudo-element hacks can fill some gaps in existing browser support for CSS features, without resorting to presentational HTML. In some cases, they even make it possible to emulate things that are not currently part of any W3C working draft, like background transforms and background image opacity.

Most of the hacks in this article tie in with the pseudo-element hack described in an earlier article – Multiple Backgrounds and Borders with CSS 2.1. Minimal and clean magazine free wordpress theme. An ideal theme for technology blogs and magazines, counts with a circuitry pattern to give that sensation of an electronic device, the theme elements like the menu and search enforce the techie feeling.

Minimal and clean magazine free wordpress theme

Its in general a very simple but nice and sober theme. How to Use jQuery to Make Slick Page Transitions. Adding the final touches to a site can be the difference between a polished and beautiful site that looks “refined,” and a mediocre site that leaves no impression on visitors. jQuery, the versatile JavaScript library, can be leveraged to create all these fine tuned elements.

How to Use jQuery to Make Slick Page Transitions

Today we’re going to look at how to use it to create elegant page transitions. Design Shock. DesignWoop - Web Design & Development Blog. Form templates. Codrops. 3+ Free Must-Have Programming Books For Your Summer Reading List. Want to be productive this summer?

3+ Free Must-Have Programming Books For Your Summer Reading List

If your answer is no, I’m surprised you’re reading this article, but since you’re already here, you might as well read about some potentially productive things. Say, reading some great beginner-grade materials especially if you have an interest in making some of your own Chrome extensions, Windows programs, etc. AppMobi.com- Create Mobile and Web Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript. PSD and Vector Logo Designs. jQuery Tutorial - Getting Started: Basics & Selectors. Last week, I talked about how important jQuery is to any modern web developer and why it’s awesome.

jQuery Tutorial - Getting Started: Basics & Selectors

This week, I think it’s time we got our hands dirty with some code and learnt how to actually make use of jQuery in our projects. I’ll say this now – you don’t need to learn Javascript in order to use jQuery. It’s probably best if you think of jQuery as an evolution of Javascript – a better way to do it – than simply a library that adds functionality.

Wordpress Theme Generator. Learn Web Development with the Ruby on Rails Tutorial. NodeJS, Javascript, HTML5, CSS. Responsive Web Design Templates and Frameworks. Before you know about responsive web design templates and frameworks, you should know in brief what responsive web designing is all about.

Responsive Web Design Templates and Frameworks

Experts follow different ways to design the websites. There are various ways to create them using different types of tools. How you will create or design your website will sole depend upon the purpose of creating the website. Focus@Will: A Streaming Service Designed To Help You Stay On Task. Try out a music streaming site specifically designed to help you work.

Focus@Will: A Streaming Service Designed To Help You Stay On Task

Focus@Will is a new streaming music service, currently in beta, created to help you focus on the task at hand. If your mind tends to wander this could help. You might have that one album that helps you think, that helps you create. Dark Social Icons Set. Aspect Ratio Calculator (ARC) Use the form below to calculate the missing value for a particular aspect ratio. This is useful, for example, when resizing photos or video. <p><strong style="color: #c00;">You must have JavaScript enabled to use this page. </strong></p> Instructions Enter the values for the original width (W1) & original height (H1) on the left.

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CSS. 20+ Button & Badge Makers. We can't all be great writers, perfect webmasters and fantastic designers. Luckily, this last part can be covered up with automated tools that help you do nice looking graphics with little or no Photoshop knowledge. We've gathered 20+ sites to help you generate buttons and badges. Enjoy! CSS Portal - Templates, Tutorials, Books, Software, Code Examples. CSS3 Button Creator 1.0. Top 15 Most Popular Design Websites. Here are the top 15 Most Popular Design Sites as derived from our eBizMBA Rank which is a continually updated average of each website's Alexa Global Traffic Rank, and U.S. 80 Best Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials, Part III. 28 Fresh Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials.

22 Best Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials. Typography means a lot in any medium kind of presentation. Whether it’s a logo, banner or just a title; being able to inject creativity into it not only help in delivering the message across, it also leaves solid impression on the viewer. Good typography design is not easy, or should I say getting the type match and speaks for the product is often a very challenging job. Here are some of the best Photoshop text effects tutorials on the web, and as usual it’s the creativity that counts. Full content after jump. ‘Bee Movie’ Text Effect Metal Text EffectReally metallic chrome effect. CSS Layout Generator.

About the CSS Layout Generator The CSS Layout Generator was first released by Tony Aslett in October 2003, since then over 871,000 layouts have been generated. Updated in November 2010, HTML5 doctype can now be selected and a simple HTML5 template with appropriate tags will be created. Web2.0 - templatr - Template Generator. Photoshop Website - Tutorials,Brushes & more.. Web Design Blog - Webdesigner Depot.

40+ Useful Resources for Design Freebies. Generally, any graphic designer looks out for the best and free resources in order to enhance their reputation among the huge crowd. The resources like PSD Files, Photoshop Brushes, icons, vectors, and textures are usually in huge demand which offers impressive results and also save a lot of time for the designers.

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77 Essential Photoshop Techniques for photo-realistic Textures. It is well known in graphic design that texture is a necessity in many types of artwork. How to Create a Professional Logo. 40 High Quality CSS and XHTML Web Layout Templates. Freebies. Six Revisions - Web Design Articles, News, Tutorials. 40 Useful Online Generators For Web Designers - Noupe Design Blog. Oct 11 2010. DesignModo - Design and Web Development Magazine, be Inspired and Creative.

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