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Thoughts On Developing A Responsive Design Workflow
Print design has the physical constraint of the canvas. The format is fixed. The situation is different on the web. We can’t know in advance exactly how someone will view our sites. We don’t have a fixed canvas. We need to create websites with the ability to adapt and respond. How To Build A Responsive site Believe it or not we’ve already covered all the technical details for building responsive sites over the last few weeks. Flexible grids — which are based on relative measurements, ideally elastic sites that are relative to something internal to the design. The last few weeks we’ve gone over the details of each of the above and I’ll refer you back to those posts for the details. Ethan is the person responsible for responsive web design and my posts, including this one have relied heavily on his work and writing. I can’t recommend the links above enough, particularly the last link, Ethan’s new book on responsive web design. InteractiveWall from Festo HQ on Vimeo. The Way Forward Summary
RWD - Beginners Guide
Craftyslide, un slideshow jQuery simple et léger - Megaptery
Les plugins jQuery qui génèrent un diaporama sont nombreux, mais ils sont souvent lourds à charger du fait des nombreuses options qui ne sont pas forcément utilisées. Avec Craftyslide, on va à l’essentiel : un slideshow simple, léger et efficace ! Pourquoi Craftyslide ? Craftyslide est né d’une raison assez originale. En effet, l’auteur en avait marre de devoir utiliser des plugins trop lourds pour ses besoins : un code superflu et parfois non-sémantique, beaucoup d’options peu utilisées, des transitions de plus en plus complexes… En s’inspirant du plugin jQuery Slides qui a été conçu avec le même objectif, Craftyslide permet de mettre en place un diaporama simple, avec seulement cinq options de base. Utilisation de Craftyslide Utiliser Craftyslide sur votre site est facile ! Puis définissez la structure HTML du slideshow. Et pour une initialisation basique du plugin : C’est fini. Quelques options Vous avez à disposition cinq options de base pour personnaliser au mieux votre diaporama :
The ultimate responsive web design roundup
Responsive design is the new darling of the web design world. It seems that not a week goes by that there aren’t new resources for doing it, opinions about how to do it or even whether to do it at all, and new sites that make beautiful use of it. It can quickly get overwhelming trying to keep up with it all. Here we’ve compiled a list of more than seventy resources for creating responsive designs. Included are articles discussing responsive design and related theories, frameworks and boilerplates for responsive layouts, tools for testing your responsive designs, techniques for resizable images, and a whole lot more. Then, to top it all off, we’ve collected a hundred of the best responsive designs out there right now to inspire you and give you some real-world ideas. Articles and Publications Below are a number of high-quality articles talking about responsive design and the techniques that go into it. Responsive Web Design Responsive Web Design Book Big vs. Responsive by Default Context FitText
Smashing - RWD - Code
Advertisement Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we’ll likely need to design for a number of additional inventions. When will the madness stop? It won’t, of course. In the field of Web design and development, we’re quickly getting to the point of being unable to keep up with the endless new resolutions and devices. Responsive Web design is the approach that suggests that design and development should respond to the user’s behavior and environment based on screen size, platform and orientation. The Concept Of Responsive Web Design Ethan Marcotte1 wrote an introductory article about the approach, “Responsive Web Design992,” for A List Apart. Transplant this discipline onto Web design, and we have a similar yet whole new idea. Adjusting Screen Resolution
Portfolio Image Navigation with jQuery
Today we want to create a portfolio image navigation template with jQuery. The idea is to show some portfolio items in a grouped fashion and navigate through them in all 2D ways (horizontal/vertical). Either the arrows or the little boxes below the current image can be used in order to navigate. View demo Download source The beautiful photography is by Angelo González. The Markup For the markup, we’ll have a main wrapper div with the background, the arrows and the gallery containers inside: Now, let’s take a look at the style. The CSS First, let’s define the style for the main container. The background will also be fixed and we’ll add a background image that creates the spotlight effect: The gallery will be positioned absolutely, just like it’s inner div: The gallery will also occupy all the space of the portfolio: We’ll fix the z-index of the inside div in order for keeping the stacking right: Now, we’ll style the arrows. And then we’ll style all the single arrows: Each image will be centered.
Responsive Web Design
The English architect Christopher Wren once quipped that his chosen field “aims for Eternity,” and there’s something appealing about that formula: Unlike the web, which often feels like aiming for next week, architecture is a discipline very much defined by its permanence. Article Continues Below A building’s foundation defines its footprint, which defines its frame, which shapes the facade. Each phase of the architectural process is more immutable, more unchanging than the last. Creative decisions quite literally shape a physical space, defining the way in which people move through its confines for decades or even centuries. Working on the web, however, is a wholly different matter. But the landscape is shifting, perhaps more quickly than we might like. In recent years, I’ve been meeting with more companies that request “an iPhone website” as part of their project. A flexible foundation#section1 Let’s consider an example design. Becoming responsive#section2 responsive architecture .
