Stowe Boyd — Responsive Web Design, Mobile First, and the Future of Content Consumption - Lindsey Kirkbride A different form of creative destruction … The result of a survey on how many times people kiss when they greet a friend in France Blasting the Myth of the Fold The Above-the-Fold Myth We are all well aware that web design is not an easy task. There are many variables to consider, some of them technical, some of them human. The technical considerations of designing for the web can (and do) change quite regularly, but the human variables change at a slower rate. This is happening right now in web design. First, a definition: The word “fold” means a great many things, even within the discipline of design. Screen performance data and new research indicate that users will scroll to find information and items below the fold. Once upon a time, page-level vertical scrolling was not permitted on AOL. As AOL moved away from our proprietary screen technology to an open web experience, we enjoyed the luxury of designing longer (and wider) pages. But even given our new larger page sizes, we were still presented with long lists of items to be placed above the fold – lists impossible to accommodate. And why? This is where things get interesting. References
JS & AJAX | 1stwebdesigner - Graphic and Web Design Blog In this tutorial, we are going explore the basics of jQuery animations for you to get prepared for advanced designs. Animations is the core functionality behind the interactive elements in web design. The design of a website plays a major role in attracting visitors on a consistent basis. Technology is improving at a rapid pace to cater the advanced modern web designs. Let’s get started! Read More Hello Everyone! In the first part we identified the importance of WordPress plugins for you as designers and the basic structure of a plugin. I am happy to announce that SlidesJS has won the voting contest and I’ll be using it through the rest of this tutorial series. Read More Sliders are a common component used in website design and for various purposes. Layered Sliders – This is the latest addition to sliders with parallax effect.Fade In/Out Sliders – These types of sliders do not have controls. There are many other types of techniques as well. Read More What is it all about? Read More Read More
Responsive Web Design in #highered: eduStyle Awards founder on converting your website to RWD I’ve just completed my article about responsive design in higher education. It will be published in University Business in a couple of months (February 2012 issue). I did a few extensive interviews with early adopters as part of my research for this piece. As usual, I could only use a fraction of what I found. I only had 1400 words. But, thanks to the Web, I can make sure you get to see the rest of what these early adopters in higher education had to say about responsive web design (RWD) – and long before the article is published! So, let’s start this series of posts about responsive web design in higher ed with Stewart Foss, founder of the eduStyle gallery and the eduStyle Awards. Stewart worked on a few projects involving RWD conversions – and will walk students of the course through their own over a period of 4 weeks, so that’s why I wanted to hear what he had to say about the process. 1) You went through several RWD conversions. It doesn’t have to be.
Project MUSE® - Project MUSE E-Mail Announcement Archive December November October September August July June May April March January December 27, 2011 From: Project MUSE <muse@press.jhu.edu> Subject: NEW TITLE DEBUTS IN PROJECT MUSE The following journal, previously announced as joining Project MUSE, is now online: ** From the Anales Galdosianos: Anales Galdosianos Anales Galdosianos, Anales Galdosianos, en colaboración con la Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas, publica anualmente artículos, reseñas y documentos, en español o en inglés, sobre la vida y obra de Benito Pérez Galdós y otros autores del siglo diecinueve y la historia intelectual y cultural de la España de Galdós. Anales Galdosianos, in collaboration with the International Association of Galdós Scholars, is published once a year, and contains articles, reviews and documents, in Spanish or English, on the life and works of Benito Pérez Galdós and other 19th-century authors, as well as the intellectual and cultural history of Galdós's Spain. Scandinavian Studies Renaissance Drama
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25 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts The most popular topic of discussion at the moment is undoubtedly responsive layouts in web design. Without going into it too much, a responsive layout allows you to offer a specific and optimised screen size based on whatever device (mobile, tablet…) the visitor uses. You would typically use Media Queries to resize the overall layout, but what about all of those individual elements and features that make your page unique? Navigation, forms, images, sliders, carousels… they all need to be optimised as well. That is were this post comes in, by highlighting 25 jQuery plugins that will help you optimise and resize those trickier web elements. Response.js Response JS is a lightweight plugin that gives you the tools for producing performance-optimized, mobile-first responsive websites. Response.js Responsly The Responsly plugin is a set of simple responsive widgets written using CSS3 transformations. Responsly Menu to a Dropdown for Small Screens Menu to a DropdownDemo Responsive Menu Doubletake
SciVerse adds text-to-speech application, iSpeech Audio Reader Great news from Elsevier about the new iSpeech Audio Reader application which instantly converts any full-text article within ScienceDirect into a natural sounding voice file. We see a lot of these mp3 files used for auditory learners, students with disabilities, and foreign language learners at my institution. More from the press release below: Elsevier, a world leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the availability of an audio reader application from iSpeech, provider of cloud-based speech technology and mobile apps, on SciVerse Applications beta. The iSpeech Audio Reader text-to-speech application instantly converts any full-text article within SciVerse ScienceDirect, the world’s largest source of peer-reviewed scientific content containing more than 10 million articles, into a natural sounding voice file. About iSpeech About the Elsevier SciVerse Suite
Responsive Web Design · Diseño Web, diseño gráfico y programación “Responsive Web Design“, en español “Diseño Web adaptativo” es el método que sugiere que el diseño y el desarrollo Web deben responder al comportamiento y entorno del usuario. En pocas palabras, un sitio Web se debería adaptar correctamente al dispositivo con el que se está navegado, dígase smartphone, tablet, Web browser, etc; lograr que el sitio se adapte visual y funcionalmente al medio con el que se está accediendo a él. Esta práctica se lleva adelante poniendo en juego un conjunto de herramientas; templates flexibles, imágenes que se ajustan, javascript para identificar los tamaños de pantalla, CSS media queries para establecer estilos según los dispositivos, etc. El sitio deberá automáticamente adaptarse al tipo de dispositivo mostrando su contenido de manera correcta para le usuario. Media Queries Existen dos maneras de aplicar media queries, una de ellas es dentro de una hoja de estilos ya creada y la otra es crear hojas de estilos específicas según el dispositivo. Javascript Sony
Best Responsive WordPress Themes This is a collection of the best responsive WordPress themes. These responsive, fluid, or adaptive WordPress themes, automatically adapt to the screen size, resolution and device on which they are being viewed for on. This means your website will look great whatever the screen size or device your visitors uses to visit your site, from desktop computers to tablets to mobile phones. Responsive designs solve the problem of making a website work for the endless number of new mobile devices and resolutions being used to access the web. In particular the growing popularity of interfacing with the web on mobile devices. Everything from iPhones, smartphones, iPads and tablets, mobile phones, video game consoles, TVs, netbooks, Kindles and other e-readers are used to access the web. Collections Pretty much every new WordPress themes these days is mobile friendly with a responsive design. The Best Responsive WordPress Themes Divi WordPress Theme Some of the possibilities with Divi Responsive Design
EPUB 3: Exciting Possibilities for Distribution of Digital Content When you hear the expression "EPUB 3" perhaps you think:It's the next version of a distribution and interchange format specification/standard for digital publications and documents; or you groan because you think it's another e-reader hardware that you need to be aware of. Either way you REALLY need to an article by Bill Kasdorf, published in the Information Standards Quarterly. Bill's article is a report on the work done by the working group to develop EPUB 3. His day jobs are VP of Apex Content Solutions and General Editor of The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing. I'll provide some (hopefully) useful context, pull some highlights from the article and add my comments. First, some context for those who don't live and breathe this stuff. ). EPUB defines a way to represent, package and encode structured and semantically enhanced Web content—including HTML5, CSS, SVG, images, and other resources—for distribution in a single-file format. EPUB provides a clearer path to consistency.
Brett Jankord – Cross Browser Retina/High Resolution Media Queries fantasai, Ben Frain, and Peter Gasston have all written about this topic before, though I still see a lot developers using verbose media queries for retina/high resolution displays so I figured I would write up my own post. Most developers are currently writing retina/high resolution media queries similar to the examples below: This media query example is from 37signals article on retina images and scss. It is based on the one in Thomas Fuchs’ Retinafy book but, it has been modified to define the Google Nexus 7 with it’s 1.3 pixel ratio as a retina-capable device. @media (min--moz-device-pixel-ratio: 1.3), (-o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.6/2), (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.3), (min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.3), (min-resolution: 1.3dppx) { /* Retina-specific stuff here */ } Chris Coyier has a retina display media query example that looks like this: What’s wrong with the above solutions Nothing really, though they could be a lot cleaner. IE is using standards, this is new Update Opera Mini
jquery responsive web | @stildv what is it? it is a simple jquery plugin helping design more responsive and adaptive websites and web applications with almost no setup. what does it do? it adds dynamic classes to the <body> depending on the operating system, browser and resolution. why? because for ideal responsive web design css is just not enough. it chokes at some point, or has cross-browser and cross-platform issues much more than the wonderful jquery framework. and also mobile websites don’t have to be ugly, or boring with bulky iphone buttons and very trimmed content, a similar mobile version of the website can be done with this plugin easily. check out the New York Times Global Edition example in the zip or after the jump. compatibility I have tried it with microsoft internet explorer v7 and v8, firefox, google chrome, safari, opera on windows, and also with an android device. works perfectly on all of them. on the android device (samsung galaxy s) handles the orientation change nicely too. examples how to use?