Less Framework 4
Every layout in Less Framework is based on a single grid, composed of 68 px columns with 24 px gutters. The only measures that change from layout to layout are the amount of columns and the width of the outer margins. The three sets of typography presets are aligned to a 24 px baseline grid; one is based on 16 px body text, one on 17 px, and one on 18 px. Both sets contain several harmonious type sizes calculated using the Golden Ratio. Technically
Required JavaScript Reading
I'm asked regularly about books and online resources to get up to speed on JavaScript. Seems like everyone wants to get in on the JS action and with good reason; it's a great language to know if you're interested in exciting career opportunities. It's also pretty fun to play with. With JavaScript's increased popularity, the number of books, blogs and tutorials about the language have grown exponentially and while I can't possibly know all of them, I've found some gems which I really like and would like to share those with you. Books
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Chapter 58 ; History of Layout Design and Modern Newspaper & Magazins
Page layout is the process of composing text, image and negative space on the page to produce a balanced, and harmonious visual impact that would allow for a collaboration of the author of the text, the artist of the design and the reader to construct collectively a meaning and a message for the text. No text has a single meaning or a unique message, and different designs create different meanings and different messages for the same text. A layout designer usually uses a grid system to subdivides a page into geometrical spaces that would constitute the grammar of layout design made up of vertical, horizontal, oblique and curved borders, margins, columns, inter-column spaces, lines of type, and negative spaces between blocks of type and images. The visual grammar pf layout design forms its visual messageLayout design is more than just design it is visual communication. Of course. the amount of space available will dictate a designer's ability to layout the text.
Less Framework 4
I called Less Framework "a CSS grid system for designing adaptive websites". It was basically a fixed-width grid that adapted to a couple of then popular screen widths by shedding some of its columns. It also had matching typographic presets to go with it, built with a modular scale based on the golden ratio. The resources it was originally published with are still available on GitHub.
JavaScript’s Strict Mode and Why You Should Use It
Starting with ECMAScript 5, developers are able to place their code into a more constrained form of execution known as strict mode. Strict mode improves JavaScript code by enforcing better programming practices and eliminating some of the language’s insecure and ill-advised features. Strict mode is enabled by adding the following directive to your code: "use strict";
Cool Tools are a Must-Have for Web Designers
Admit it, as a designer you are always looking for cool new tips, tools and tricks to enhance your projects and make your life a little easier. Thankfully, new tools, products, apps and even great user interface kits hit the market almost daily. There are also a host of old favorites out there a well – some you may know about and others that you might think about trying for the first time. Here (in no particular order) are a dozen we think you’ll like. Responsive Design Testing
Magazine columns and their layout options
Columns are essential tools to standardize your layout. They will help you in getting order and structure of your magazine, but do resist to imprison your thinking into standard format because rigidity dulls the creativity. To avoid that trap you can play with column width and shapes. You should treat each story as a separate unit and mix the number of columns in each story. One story can be laid out on a two column grid while the other can be laid out in three, four or more column grid.
A better Photoshop grid for responsive web design
Posted on 20 January 2012 • 90 comments In making the move to responsive web design, one of the potential hurdles is the rather awkward maths for calculating the percentage-based widths necessary for fluid layouts. If, for example, you’re designing with a 960px grid in Photoshop and you have six columns, each 140px wide, you divide 140 by 960 to get your percentage-based width: 14.583333%. Now, I don’t know about you, but numbers like that look a little scary.
Javascript Snippet Tutorial - Dynamically Modifying Tables
Whereas we've used Javascript to dynamically modify table contents in a previous tutorial, we've never written a tutorial specifically explaining how it's done. That's where this tutorial comes in. I'm going to demonstrate, through some simple examples, how to dynamically add and remove table rows and cells using Javascript. If you're wondering why someone would want to do this, the answer is simple: AJAX. If you make a request to the server for some tabular data, you're going to need some way of putting it on the screen. Fortunately, the creators of Javascript made the process straight forward and pretty intuitive.
20th anniversary
In the "Moscow Times" photo album, the most exciting and memorable moments of the last 20 years of life in Russia are reflected just as the photographers of The Moscow Times saw them, and just as I myself saw them, being a loyal reader of this newspaper. The only independent daily English-language newspaper in Russia, The Moscow Times, turns 20 in 2012. A festive gala dinner, "20 Years with The Moscow Times", will be held on October 5, 2012, Friday, at 7:00 p.m. at the Hotel Baltschug Kempinski Moscow. Today in History The Moscow Times has survived many nicks and scratches in its 20-year history: snipers firing at its editorial offices, staff rescued by helicopter from the midst of military mayhem, thugs muscling into the office to steal the wages, and a two-thirds plunge in the currency that wiped out many other companies. The Russian IT market has exploded since the early 1990s and is estimated to be worth about $35 billion in 2012.
Award-Winning Newspaper Designs
Advertisement Print and Web are different. Traditional layout techniques from print, particularly an advanced formatting, aren’t applicable to the Web as CSS doesn’t offer sophisticated instruments to design such layouts (e.g. text floating around an embedded image; some “floating” techniques provide such results, however they produce bloated source code just as well). At the same time the flexibility of the Web is hardly applicable to print as there is no way to customize a traditional periodical for reader’s convenience.
