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Create a Mobile App Icon in Photoshop This tutorial is part of a three-part series explaining how to design UI elements for mobile applications in Photoshop. In this part, we will explain how to design an icon for your mobile device's home screen. Let's get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Wood Texture Step 1 Create a new document. Step 2 With the Rounded Rectangle Tool (U) draw a shape using a red color. Step 3 With the Brush Tool (B) Paint a vivid light red color to create a light spot on the upper right part of the icon. Step 4 Add a black shadow with the Brush Tool. Step 5 Add a shape like this on top of the icon with the following Layer Style. Step 6 Duplicate and reduce the last shape with Cmd/Ctrl + T. Step 7 Refine the upper lights using the Brush Tool (B) alternating light and dark red. Step 8 I refined the bottom part using the same way as the previous step. Step 9 Step 10 Make a Rectangular Selection. Step 11 Step 12 Step 13 Add two Highlights stripes. Step 14 Step 15

TextFixer.com - Webmaster Online HTML tools for fixing, changing and manipulating text and html. Pixelglyph: 200 free PNG Icons for Developers of Mobile Websites and Apps (+ Giveaway) Jan 25 2013 If you are into the development of mobile websites or apps for iOS, Android or – phew – Windows Phone even, you will not be able to do without icons. That’s why icon sets are experiencing high demand. As with other areas in life the separation of the wheat from the chaff is what makes choices time-consuming. There are of course decent commercial offerings but they also tend to come with luxurious pricing. A brand-new set by the name of Pixelglyph relies on a freemium price tag. Filesquare, Oursky and Free Icons Let’s first establish some order in the name game we are about to experience. The creators of Filesquare and Pixelglyph reside in Hongkong and call themselves Oursky. Pixelglyph surely is primarily aimed at raising awareness for the mockup solution Filesquare. Pixelglyph: 200 x 2 one-colored icons in 16 and 48 pixels squared Pixelglyph comes in two variants. Only the mail address is asked for, any throw-away provider will do The whole set as an overview Wait! Homepage

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Designing With Grid-Based Approach Advertisement The main idea behind grid-based designs is a solid visual and structural balance of web-sites you can create with them. Sophisticated layout structures offer more flexibility and enhance the visual experience of visitors. In fact, users can easier follow the consistency of the page, while developers can update the layout in a well thought-out, consistent way. However, it’s quite hard to find your way through all the theory behind grid systems: it isn’t easy at all. Some important notions and related key-facts can help to learn basics and keep essential techniques in mind. And this is what this article is all about. Examples of Grid-based design But first few examples of grid-based designs to make clear what the article is about. Things You Probably Don’t Know About Grid-based Design “The grid is the most vivid manifestation of the will to order in graphic design. [...] Articles about Grid-based Design Approach

100 Tools to Develop the Next Killer iOS or Android App <i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i><i>This post is #11 in DailyTekk’s famous Top 100 series which explores the best startups, gadgets, apps, websites and services in a given category. Total items listed: 113. Time to compile: 6+ hours. </i>*} There’s quite a list of people who are interested in creating iPhone/iPad and Android apps these days. There’s truly something for everyone here. 100+ Professional Social Media Business Tools for Brands and Marketers I’m sure there’s more than 100 awesome tools for creating awesome iPhone, iPad and Android apps out there so if I missed something good leave me a comment to let me know! Post Navigation Random + Noteworthy Tools DIY (No Coding) App Creation Tools Development, Analytics and Management Platforms Mockup and UI Design Tools Mobile Ads + Monetization Test, Refine and Get Feedback App Promotion & Marketing Enhance App Functionality Other and Miscellaneous Tapjoy - Drive more installs and boost your revenue. Vungle – Video trailers for your app. Back to top Footnotes

iconload.de HTML5 Please - Use the new and shiny responsibly 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 The idea is to first code the Default Layout (992 px), and then use CSS3 media queries to code seve­ral child layouts: 768, 480, and 320 px. If you think of Mobile First as progressive enhancement, Less Framework will feel more like graceful degradation; old desktop and mobile browsers will only use the default 992 px layout. Philosophically The goal of Less Framework is to make building websites with mul­tiple layouts efficient, and to make the layouts feel consistent. Less Framework is simple.

Converting @font-face Fonts Quickly In Any OS Converting fonts quickly will help speed up production of your projects and can easily integrate into your workflow. I love experimenting with web fonts, but using the hodgepodge of free and open source desktop tools to convert them manually is time consuming. To speed things up a bit, Font Squirrel created the excellent @Font-Face Generator web application which not only generates the fonts for you, but also creates a stylesheet a developer can import and use the font immediately. I really like this tool and it inspired me to write a command line tool that would create a package like Font Squirrel’s generator, The result is a shell script that uses FontForge, Batik and Readable Web’s EOTFast to do the heavy lifting. This tool is not intended to replace Font Squirrel’s tool (as a matter of fact, their tool has a few more options than mine). If you’re not familiar with the command line on your particular operating system, this may not be the solution for you. Examples Usage Installation

CodeMirror 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. Contrary to how most CSS frameworks work, Less Framework simply provided a set of code comments and visual templates, instead of having predefined classes to control the layout with. /* Default Layout: 992px. Less Framework was popular in the early days of responsive design. Eventually, I moved on from fixed-width grid systems and worked on a fully fluid-width one, in the form of Golden Grid System. Less Framework's popularity was helped by the following contributions and the lovely people behind them (dead links crossed off):

Character Sets / Character Encoding Issues Introduction Let’s first define some terms to make it easier to understand the following sections (taken from the book XML Internationalization and Localization). See also the introductory WIKI page on i18n. A character is the smallest component of written language that has a semantic value. A character set is a group of characters without associated numerical values. Coded character sets are character sets in which each character is associated with a scalar value: a code point. In many cases, the encoding is just a direct projection of the scalar values, and there is no real distinction between the coded character set and its serialized representation. Unicode and its encodings For Unicode (also called Universal Character Set or UCS), a coded character set developed by the Unicode consortium, there a several possible encodings: UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. UTF-8 is a multibyte 8-bit encoding in which each Unicode scalar value is mapped to a sequence of one to four bytes. And PHP 6? if ( !