Responsive Web Design: Using Fonts Responsively
Typography is one of the most important aspects of responsive web design, and optimizing your fonts for mobile devices is an absolute necessity if you want your content to be palatable across all screen sizes. Fortunately, the process of building flexible fonts is not very difficult. When we talk about flexibility (which is the guiding principle in this case), we cannot overlook the specified size of the font we’ve chosen to adapt for our responsive website. In this continuation on responsive web design, I’ll explain how to manage dynamic fonts responsively, and I’ll analyze all of the aforementioned metrics, comparing the strength and weaknesses of each choice. Pixels For a long time, pixels have been the unit preferred of web designer due to its inherent precision and accuracy. As most readers already know, when you set the dimensions for a “parent” item, they will be automatically applied to any “child” elements via inheritance. Ems Let’s continue by considering ems. Percentages Rems
FlexNav - A jQuery Plugin for Responsive Menus
A Device-Agnostic Approach to Complex Site Navigation FlexNav is a mobile-first example of using media queries and javascript to make a decent multi-level menu with support for touch, hover reveal, and keyboard tab input accessibility. Special attention is paid to touch screens using tap targets (the key feature of FlexNav). Note: If you find a bug, please file an issue and note device and browser versions. Download on GitHub → Basic Usage Start with a simple unordered list, adding in the class and data attributes:<ul class="flexnav" data-breakpoint="800"><li>... Add the small screen menu button somewhere outside your navigation markup:<div class="menu-button">Menu</div> Add flexnav.css to the head of your document:<link href="css/flexnav.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> Add jquery.flexnav.min.js before the closing body tag:<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.flexnav.min.js"></script> Initialize FlexNav right before your closing body tag:$(".flexnav").flexNav(); Options
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Responsive Website Design | Blue Fountain Media NYC
What is Responsive Website Design? A responsive website is a single website that adapts to the device of each unique visitor, whether desktop, smartphone, or tablet. A responsive website dynamically re-sizes its content and imagery for a variety of different screen sizes in order to ensure the website is effective and easy to use on any device. Why should I use Responsive Website Design? Rapidly growing mobile usage Mobile web usage is growing at an extremely rapid rate that presents enormous opportunity. Best practice for ranking high in mobile search results Responsive design is the preferred option when it comes to making your website both mobile and search engine friendly. Efficient in terms of both time and cost Responsive website design can drastically cut down on development time and cost.
BookBlock: A Content Flip Plugin - Demo 2
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250+ Free Responsive HTML5 CSS3 Website Templates
All professional free premium responsive HTML5 and CSS3 Templates have functionality and features of HTML5 and CSS3. Using HTML5 and CSS3 features are popular among web designers nowadays. HTML5also provide great features to create animation on web instead of flash animation. Websites developed in HTML5 animation will not require adobe flash support on your web browser anymore, provided that your browser supports HTML5. There are more kind of html5 css3 website templates such education templates, hotel templates and more. Ultra-Modern – Free Responsive Design Agency Theme This clean responsive template is a perfect basis for displaying a vast amount of content in a coherent manner, thus promoting your web design agency or other projects related to this business niche. Demo More Info Free Responsive HTML5 Corporate Template You can effectively deliver your business ideas with Free Responsive Corporate Template, professional freebie designed. Demo More Info Demo More Info Demo More Info
Responsive Nav — Responsive Navigation Plugin
How long does it take to learn a new skill? 20 hours.
24 October '13, 05:53am Follow If you have 20 minutes, watch the video, it’s worth it. The speaker, Josh Kaufman, author of The Personal MBA, explains that according to his research, the infamous “10,000 hours to learn anything” is in fact, untrue. It takes 10,000 hours to become an “expert in an ultra competitive field” but to go from “knowing nothing to being pretty good”, actually takes 20 hours. How? The path to learning: Deconstruct the skill.
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Tiny Circleslider: A lightweight circular carousel for jQuery
What is it? Tinycircleslider is a circular slider / carousel. That was built to provide webdevelopers with a cool but subtle alternative to all those standard carousels. Tiny Circleslider can blend in on any wepage. It was built using the javascript jQuery library. Features IOS and Android support. Need support or custom features? Anything is possible! Examples $(document).ready(function(){ $('#circleslider1').tinycircleslider();}); Note: There is no lightbox natively in tiny circleslider for this example fancybox was used. To get a better understanding of how it all comes together I made a (corny) styled example. Constructor Properties Methods Events Usage The image below displays how you calculate the radius of your circleslider.
