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Case Study: Page Flip Effect from 20thingsilearned.com Introduction In 2010, F-i.com and the Google Chrome team collaborated on an HTML5-based educational web app called 20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web (www.20thingsilearned.com). One of the key ideas behind this project was that it would best be presented in the context of a book. Responsive Web Design Demystified Tutorial by Matt Doyle | Level: Intermediate | Published on 30 September 2011 Categories: What exactly is responsive design, and how do you create a responsive website? This tutorial explains the concepts, and walks you through the basic steps for creating a responsive website layout. Responsive web design is a hot topic these days, especially as websites need to adapt to the growing number of mobile devices with their relatively small screens.
Musings on the Relationship Between Grids and Guides Though it has been around for years in print design, the concept of working on the grid has become really popular in web design in recent times, especially with the success and availability of CSS frameworks like the 960 Grid System. Many tutorials and articles that I have seen make explicit use if grids, even going so far as to specifically recommend the use of one particular system. Musings on the Relationship Between Grids and Guides That’s great.
Font Survey: 42 of the Best Monospaced Programming Fonts Introduction Recently I have seen several blogs talking about which fonts are best for use in programming. Some blogs list two or three fonts, some list ten fonts. 45+ Free Lessons In Graphic Design Theory Sep 15 2011 Considering how many designers are self-taught, either in whole or in part, the importance of a solid foundation in graphic design theory is often overlooked. New designers often want to jump right into creating websites, rather than learning the basics of why some designs work and some don’t.
CSS3 Image Styles When applying CSS3 inset box-shadow or border-radius directly to the image element, the browser doesn't render the CSS style perfectly. However, if the image is applied as background-image, you can add any style to it and have it rendered properly. Darcy Clarke and I put a quick tutorial together on how to use jQuery to make perfect rounded corner images dynamically. Today I'm going to revisit the topic and show you how much more you can do with the background-image CSS trick. I will show you how to use box-shadow, border-radius and transition to create various image styles.
CSS: Elastic Videos While I was coding the Elemin Theme (a responsive WordPress theme that I recently designed), one of the challenges that I faced was to make the embedded videos elastic. Using the max-width:100% and height:auto trick works with native HTML5 video tag, but it doesn't work with embed code using iframe or object tag. After hours of experimenting and Googling, I finally found a trick on how to achieve this. If you are creating a responsive design, this simple CSS trick will come in handy. View the final demo and resize your browser window to see it in action. The most popular fonts used by designers There are usually two camps among designers when it comes to typeface choices. One group has a handful of favorite typefaces they adapt to every design they create, believing that these handful of typefaces can be suitable for every situation. The other camp believes in using a huge variety of typefaces, picking and choosing each one based specifically on the project at hand.
Maximize the Use of Hover Usually, we create hover effects by changing: font color, font styles, border styles, background, and etc. But there are a lot more that we can do with hover. We can use hover to beautify design, minimize clutter, and display additional information.
25 Examples of Big Typography in Web Design Here at WDL we love typography and we are constantly showing our readers good typo usage, from print to logos, from web to random typographic works, we really feel the need to keep the juices flowing in that area, and we could not forget to mention all the free fonts we like to show you! So today we decided to show our love for typography gathering some examples of big typography in web design. From bold and colorful letters to delicate handwriting ones, you will find a lot of inspiring examples of how to get attention using typography, enjoy. Riser Karb CSS3 Transitions And Transforms From Scratch There are some amazing examples of CSS transforms and transitions, and whilst you may be blown away by them, there's a good chance that you're also overwhelmed and a bit intimidated! This tutorial will take you back to the very basics. We're going to create some fundamental CSS3 transitional movements, step by step.
Designing Effective Websites - 80 Articles Summer 2011 This post presents a collection of articles on how to develop an effective website which were retweeted at @htmlcut this summer. The roundup can be especially useful if you are planning to start a new web development project and need to refresh your knowledge, “shake up” creativity or find new ideas. In fact, there are a lot of resources about different aspects of effective web design on the Internet. However, the web industry is changing very fast, and new trends appear here almost every day. A Quick-Start Guide to Teaching Yourself Creative Software “I really need to learn how to use Photoshop.” “I don’t know how people do all that stuff with After Effects.” “If I only knew Ableton…” Does this sound like you? Learning creative software can be intimidating, but it’s not as hard as you might think. An ever-growing catalog of high-quality, online video tutorials available on sites like Lynda.com and Kelby Training are making learning on your own both efficient and engaging.
HTML5 selectors API – It’s like a Swiss Army Knife for the DOM In the infancy of JavaScript, there was little if any concept of an HTML document object model (DOM). Even though JavaScript was invented to enable web developers to manipulate parts of a web page, and in the original implementation, in Netscape 2.0, developers could only access the form elements, links, and images in a page. Useful for form validation, and first widely used for image rollover techniques (think :hover, before CSS), but far from the general purpose tool to create modern web applications we now know (and love/hate). Newer iterations of the DOM provided developers with access to far more than just that original limited range of elements, as well as the ability to insert, modify and delete elements in an HTML document.