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The Complete Flat Website Design Guide. Flat website design is steadily becoming popular replacing the commonly known intricate designs that are dominated by drop shadows, gradients and brushes. Flat websites is the new trend with a rising design style that incorporates flat shapes and icons. A flat design basically revolves around the use of triangles, circles, rectangles and other shapes without the need to use other design elements like gradients, strokes or shadows as seen on Microsoft’s most-recent computer operating system Windows 8. A flat design is specifically based on two principles- readability and simplicity which guide designers in coming up with flat yet stylish software designs, web layouts, posters and other key applications. Simplicity Flat design refrains from the use of intricacies with the absence of drop shadows, strokes and other design elements. Readability Flat website design is slowly invading apps, computers and our web pages bringing in 5 common elements that we will soon be familiar with.

Typography. Creating a Mobile-First Responsive Web Design. Introduction We're going to walk through how to create an adaptive web experience that's designed mobile-first. This article and demo will go over the following: There is even more up to date responsive guidance on our new Web Fundamentals site. Why we need to create mobile-first, responsive, adaptive experiences How to structure HTML for an adaptive site in order to optimize performance and prioritize flexibility How to write CSS that defines shared styles first, builds up styles for larger screens with media queries, and uses relative units How to write unobtrusive Javascript to conditionally load in content fragments, take advantage of touch events and geolocation What we could do to further enhance our adaptive experience The Need for Adaptivity As the web landscape becomes increasingly complex, it's becoming extremely important to deliver solid web experiences to a growing number of contexts.

However, mobile context is much more than just screen size. View the demo Structure Style Less JS. The 5 Best Front-End Developer Tools - The Mention Blog. This is a tech post by Arnaud Breton, full-stack developer here at mention with a specific focus on the front-end side and user experience. Before joining mention, Arnaud was co-founder and CTO of UniShared and VideoNot.es, part of the Imagine K-12 2013 Winter batch. Over the last few years, we’ve seen tremendous growth in an entirely new generation of web applications.

These apps have become much richer, leading to a huge increase in complexity on the front-end side. Frameworks like Backbone (the one we use at mention), AngularJS, and EmberJS provide robust solutions to build amazing apps, leveraging all of the web’s power. In order to succeed in these new challenges of complexity, developers have created a lot of tools to streamline the overall development process. At mention, we love the tools which help us to provide the best quality software while at the same time making our life easier. The best tool we have in our hands today. Does testing make you queasy? Very clear, right? Classroom. How to Build a Startup Plan | The Startup Guide - Creating a Better World Through Entrepreneurship. A startup has to act quickly, yet not to run out of money as it grows.

Here’s how to chart a rapid course for growth… By Ryan Allis, CEO of Connect When you hear the term business plan, you might visualize a 40 page document, full of dense paragraphs, charts, and diagrams. Today, in fact, most business plans are not such in-depth documents. Business plans today often to come in the form of slide decks or shorter 10 page executive summaries. Too many people get stuck in analysis paralysis and will spend 6 months building a business plan before they even get started. You’re better off incorporating, printing up some business cards, getting a website going, and starting to work on creating a prototype for a minimum viable product (or MVP). Business ideas really are a dime a dozen. That said, when you’re ready to scale your idea or raise funding, you’ll need at least a basic pitch deck and financial plan. The Sections of Your Plan 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Startup Plan Checklist Incorporating Your Startup.

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