Fixed vs. Fluid vs. Elastic Layout: What's The Right One For You?
Advertisement The problem has boggled the minds of Web designers for years: fixed, fluid, elastic or a hybrid layout design? Each option has its benefits and disadvantages. But the final decision depends so much on usability that it is not one to be made lightly. So, with all the confusion, is there a right decision?
What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?
Responsive websites respond to their environment Adaptive (Multiple Fixed Width Layouts) or Responsive (Multiple Fluid Grid Layouts) Recommended Approach Go All In On Responsive
How To Create a Pure CSS Dropdown Menu
With the help of some advanced selectors a dropdown menu can be easily created with CSS. Throw in some fancy CSS3 properties and you can create a design that was once only achievable with background images and Javascript. Follow this tutorial to see the step by step process of building your own pure CSS dropdown menu. The menu we’ll be creating features two sub categories that appear once the parent link is activated by a hover. The first series of sub-links appear underneath main nav bar, then the second series of links fly out horizontally from the first dropdown. Take a look at the CSS dropdown menu demo to see it all in action.
Multiple Backgrounds with CSS3
Home / CSS3 Previews / Multiple Backgrounds with CSS3 CSS3 allows web designers to specify multiple background images for box elements, using nothing more than a simple comma-separated list. Browser support for multiple backgrounds is relatively widespread with Mozilla Firefox (3.6+), Safari/Chrome (1.0/1.3+), Opera (10.5+) and even Internet Explorer (9.0+) all implementing the feature. Here’s a basic example: This box has two background images, the first a sheep (aligned to the bottom and center) and the second a grass and sky background (aligned to the top-left corner).
HTML5 Grayscale Image Hover
Once upon a time, grayscale image has to be manually converted in order to be displayed on the web. Now with HTML5 canvas, images can be manipulated into grayscale without having to use image editing software. I've put together a demo to show you how to use HTML5 & jQuery to dynamically clone color images into grayscale (see demo). Credits: thanks to Darcy Clarke (my Themify's partner) for the jQuery and Javascript code. View Demo HTML5 Grayscale The Purpose
How to make WordPress Themes Responsive
Responsive Websites become a must in 2012. This tutorial demonstrates how to make your WordPress Theme Responsive. What is Responsive Web Design?
Responsive Web Design
It all started with Responsive Web Design, an article by Ethan Marcotte on A List Apart. Essentially, the article proposed addressing the ever-changing landscape of devices, browsers, screen sizes and orientations by creating flexible, fluid and adaptive Websites. Instead of responding to today’s needs for a desktop web version adapted to the most common screen resolution, along with a particular mobile version (often specific to a single mobile device), the idea is to approach the issue the other way around: use flexible and fluid layouts that adapt to almost any screen. Core Concepts Three key technical features are at the heart of responsive web design:
Learn how to Create Javascirpt Menu for Your Web Site
Javascript is a client-side object oriented programming language. It is used to add dynamic features and interactive functionality to web sites. Javascript is a dialect of the ECMAScript standard.
Box-shadow, one of CSS3′s best new features
Home / CSS3 Previews / Box-shadow, one of CSS3’s best new features The box-shadow property allows designers to easily implement multiple drop shadows (outer or inner) on box elements, specifying values for color, size, blur and offset. Browser support is growing of late with Mozilla (Firefox), Webkit (Safari/Chrome/Konqueror), Opera and the IE9 Platform Preview all offering a decent implementation of the spec, although Mozilla and Webkit still require their respective -moz- and -webkit- prefixes (note Mozilla Firefox 4.0+ no longer requires the -moz- prefix). Here’s a basic example:
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.
Adaptive Images
Limitations I think this is one of the most flexible, future-proof, retro-fittable, and easy to use solutions available today. But, there are problems with this approach as there are with all of the one’s I’ve seen so far. In the case of Adaptive Images they are these: This is a PHP solution. I wish I was smarter and knew some fancy modern languages the cool kids discuss at parties, but I don’t.
Chatting with LukeW on Mobile First and Foundation 4 by ZURB
The other day, our friend and advisor Luke Wroblewski stopped by for a chat with Jonathan, Chris and myself. We're in the midst of working on the finishing touches to Foundation 4, polishing the chrome and making her seaworthy. And Luke's visit was a pleasant distraction. Luke turned us on to Mobile First and his work has greatly influenced how we're approaching Foundation 4, which we talked about during our conversation with him. While we talked, Chris was furiously pounding away on the code — he can pat his head and rub his tummy at the same time.
How To Create A Responsive Navigation Menu Using Only CSS
In this tutorial we will be creating a basic responsive navigation menu with dropdown using only HTML and CSS. Many navigation menus (especially responsive ones) are created using a combination of HTML, CSS and Javascript. This simple CSS only method will demonstrate that Javascript isn't always necessary! The code we will create includes only the most essential CSS required for structure and basic styling. This makes it much easier to follow and understand the purpose of each line of code.
A photograph gallery tutorial
Creating an Photograph Gallery using CSS only Introduction One of the many uses for personal and professional web site is to display a gallery of photographs that show off your skills with a camera. Until now these galleries have been produced using javascript, PHP or CGI.
