Créer une police d’icônes facilement à partir d’illustrations vectorielles Les polices d'icônes ou "font-icon" popularisées depuis Bootstrap sont de plus en plus utilisées sur le web. Certains services proposent de piocher des icônes dans différents packs pour se créer sa propre "police". Dans ce petit tutoriel nous verrons comment, grâce au service en ligne IcoMoon, il est facile de se créer sa propre police d'icônes à partir d'illustrations et fichiers vectoriels. Une fonte-icône est tout simplement une police d’écriture dont on aura remplacé certains caractères par des glyphes représentant les icônes que l’on veut utiliser. Outre leur flexibilité elles permettent un gain de performance puisqu’il suffit de charger une police (un fichier) pour avoir accès à un nombre important de caractères. Voir une petite démonstration en ligne : Icon Font are Awesome. Le placement de l’icône se fait généralement grâce à une balise <i> ou <span> (inoffensive par défaut) qui va utiliser en classe le nom de l’icône que le souhaite afficher. ou... IcoMoon propose 3 outils :
Discuss: If you’re in the web performance business, you’re in the happiness business. It’s ironic that I’m writing this post at a time when my own flow has been seriously compromised by the arrival of my third child, who arrived a couple of weeks ago. But I’m going to do my best. Stick with me. I’ve written about flow in the past. It’s a fascinating topic — one that I keep coming back to as I discover new (or new to me) research into it. Last year– Sorry. Last week, I was up late (again: baby) and decided to watch a documentary called Happy, which, as you might guess, is an exploration of the factors that truly make us truly happy. “People who experience flow on a regular basis are happier than people who don’t.” This was really interesting to me. What is flow? First, let’s back up for a minute and define our terms. A. Ideally, you want to experience as much as possible of flow B while you’re experiencing flow A. What gets in the way of flow? This list was disturbingly easy to write, and I’m sure I could go on. Now let’s hone in on our area of focus: web performance.
40 nouveaux packs d'icônes flat design à découvrir Le flat design connaît un succès fulgurant au sein de la communauté du Web design. Le flat n'en est qu'à ses débuts et aucun indice ne préfigure un abandon soudain de ce courant faisant la part belle aux couleurs vives, à la typographie et à l’espace. Dans cet article, j’ai rassemblé une importante collection d’icônes flat pour la conception de vos futures interfaces graphiques. Cette liste offre de merveilleuses combinaisons d’icônes flat designées pouvant être utilisées dans une grande diversité de projets. Ces packs conviendront parfaitement aux personnes en recherche d’icônes dans les thématiques Communication, bureautique, développement, e-commerce, social media, navigation, affichage… la liste est longue. De plus en plus d’applications Web adoptent ce concept. L’emploi d’icônes originales, les variations de couleurs, l’utilisation harmonieuse de photographies et de fontes sont les seuls moyens à notre disposition pour sortir du lot. Icônes flat designées par Mike Clarke
How to find your niche Are you trying to grow your freelance web development or design business? Do you want to spend more time designing websites and less time trying to figure out what the client really wants and needs? By finding the right web design niche, you can increase productivity and revenue and make your freelance business more profitable. Web design is a competitive industry, but there are excellent opportunities for those with clear goals. A Google search on “freelance web developer United States” yielded over 51 million results, yet the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Outlook Handbook reports that IT jobs for web developers, information security analysts and computer network architects are expected to grow by 22% between 2010 and 2020. While the study focuses on jobs within IT businesses, the potential for freelance work is also clear. Advantages of niche working Instead of generalizing in many areas, niche web designers can focus their time and energy on narrower areas. Client benefits
A Minimalistic Look at Man’s Best Friend – Illustrations by Josh Brill Article by Hyathiz I love my dogs, reading books, and taking great pictures with my battered but still functional digital camera. Taking great pictures with a high end camera is almost too easy, producing fantastic images with an outdated one is an accomplishment by itself. By Hyathiz on February 17, 2013, in Illustrations Tags: Addo Novo, art, design, display, dog, Josh Brill, light, minimalist, New Media Art Director, New Media Design, portraits, prints, words Josh Brill graduated from Maine College of Art with a degree in New Media Design. You can take a look at more of his work here. Do you want more visual fun? You might also like
Getting Started With the WebKit Layout Code | Web Platform Team Blog I am a newcomer to the world of WebKit. Before starting here at Adobe I had never even looked at the source code, so I had quite a bit of learning to do once I started. I’ve done a few things in WebKit since then, but I’m definitely still in the early stages – it is a large, complex project! Out of this challenge grew the desire to do make it less challenging for others, and help my learning process at the same time. What is WebKit? The first thing that may stump a beginner is quite simply the definition of WebKit itself. In order to support all of these platforms, the WebKit code base is separated into platform dependent code and platform independent code. WebKit is further separated into components for different functions: WebKit is not only the name of the entire project, it is also the name of the API that’s used by browsers and other applications. What is Layout? When WebKit consumes a web page, it generates a DOM tree from the HTML source. Understanding the rules of layout What now?
Cikonss | Pure CSS Responsive Icons 16 Inspiring Examples of Interactive Maps in Web Design Interactive maps can be a a great way of displaying useful information in an engaging and attractive way by inviting the user to take action. With huge developments in GEO tagging over the last decade, the advent of Google Maps APIs and the introduction of Fusion tables, more and more websites are taking advantage of these comprehensive tools to showcase their data. We take a look at some interesting uses of these maps in 2013. The Music Map 50 Problems in 50 Days Mobile Bay Build with Chrome – Lego Flybe Route Map YCO Yacht The Global Transition GeocodEarth World of Merix Yvan Rodic – Cities Messages for Japan Startup Weekend Irrland Bluecadet Keystone
Special Characters for HTML, CSS and JS My name is Neal Chester and I'm a web developer and consultant. Sometimes I use special characters as an alternative to images; many of these characters I never knew existed. When I surfed the Web, I always ran into 3 problems with character listings: They contained tons of characters I didn't useThere was no one list that brought together all the characters I neededThe fonts were too small and the page was difficult to use So I made my own listing page containing the best HTML characters I felt would be useful to everyone, especially web developers. Rendering Characters As you'll notice, some characters will render differently depending on the browser. Depending on the browser, some characters won't display. Therefore, it's important to view the characters in different browsers and mobile devices to determine if you want to use that character. First of all, make sure you're using the correct unicode. AddDefaultCharset utf-8 AddCharset utf-8 .html .css .js .xml .json .rss .atom
50 Creative Websites With Highly Unusual Navigation Navigation plays a crucial role in the success or failure of any website. An easy to navigate website is more likely to be explored in more detail as compared to a website with more complex navigation. Regardless of the functionality of the website, the navigation is the first thing that must be taken care of. Accomplishing matchless navigation that successfully performs its function is almost similar to mounting Mt. At this time, we have selected some websites with marvelous and distinctive navigational elements that will not only enthuse you, but will demonstrate to you how to merge novelty with realism. 1. On this website, you may feel that the website does not have any content but once you explore its navigation, you will love to browse this website more than anything. 2. Here you will see the navigation menu hanging in the air. 3. Here the navigation may appear minimal and negligible but once you keep your mouse on the option it shows you the complete list of all available choices.
33 Beautiful Uses of Icons in Web Design Besides textures and patterns, icons, are one of the most important small elements that can make big changes to the over-all look of any site. While they are really small, and are not always very noticeable they are really used a lot on any kind of website. In Navigation bars, in sidebars, in footers, near sliders and wherever possible. Any website has a use of at least 3 icons on page, and up to 20 on a full website. In the following round-up we have listed a selection of websites that have a really beautiful use of icons, on their pages. These websites have all been hand-picked, so we were very impressed a lot by the their positioning, and the clever and ingenious use of icons. 33 Beautiful Uses of Icons in Web Design Movmt Rundotodo Trifermed CL Designz Deinternet Jongens Travelison Cappuccino Digital David Ecolla Typo Popote Robin Clediere Space Tofu Stylapps We Are Pandr InfluAds La Web Shop Duck App Deda Pixel 2 Html Symbolicons Agencia 110 World of eStore Light CMS Moso Resume Baking Webfoo London Fluxion
Online Resources to find Repeating Website Backgrounds Web designers who spend a lot of time in Photoshop will often build their own repeating patterns from scratch. Yet for some projects it can be easier to work with an existing background to save time. The problem is that it can be difficult finding the exact background which fits your needs. Take a look at these fantastic online resources for repeating backgrounds. Tile-able Backgrounds Blog Noise Texture Generator Subtle Patterns Stripe Generator Pattern8 Background Image Generator Repeat-X Repeat-Y BG Repeat ZenBG DinPattern Patternify Border Image Free Seamless Textures