Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It - Smashing Magazine 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. 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 Marcotte wrote an introductory article about the approach, “Responsive Web Design,” for A List Apart. “Recently, an emergent discipline called “responsive architecture” has begun asking how physical spaces can respond to the presence of people passing through them.
7 Free Tools to Identify A Font So you’re browsing through your favorite website and found a site that uses a font you love. You want that font too, (and must be as quickly as possible!)… so how do we go about finding out what that font is called? One easy option is to simply email the webmaster and ask for the name of the font and where to get it. This can take some time and not all webmasters will reply. 1. Developed by one of the largest font providers, WhatTheFont is your number one spot for identifying your fonts. 2. This service takes a different approach and finds your fonts by asking a number of questions about the font. 3. This is probably the greatest and largest community of font experts. 4. This site offers a ton of information as well as multiple online tools to help you find your font, by answering questions on the shape of the glyphs of the font in question. 5. Developed by Fontshop, this one uses the same principles as the Bowfint system by asking questions about the shape of each character. 6. 7.
30 Free Fonts You MUST Have Today we didn’t really concentrate on creating a set following specific font styles. This time, we put together a mix of free fonts which are really worth using and shouldn’t be missing in your personal font library. We are sure you’ll find you own favorite between these 30 below. By the way, don’t forget to download my package of over 340 Premium Logo PSDs . Enjoy! Harabara Bold TrueType font is free to download for both personal and commercial use. Aldo Open font was created by Jonathan Hill. PicoBlackAl Font is a bold, rounded corner decorative font. Bandy Regular TrueType font is a mdoern font with a mold design and unique, fancy details. Camellia ExtraBold TrueType font has a retro inspired design and bold details. Cupola TrueType is a unique font design with some interesting details. JUICE Italic Italic was created by Dhany Arliyanti. Diebel TrueType font is a modern font design with semi-rounded letters. lignor TrueType is a free to download font with a modern design.
13 Really Useful Online CSS Tools to Streamline Development CSS is nearly used on every modern website design. However, having to write and structure CSS code from scratch every time you have a project is extremely time consuming. Below, we present you with 13 amazingly useful CSS tools for hacking on writing time consuming code. We tried to place emphasis on unknown tools that every developer should have a looksy at, however don’t be surprised if we included a few known sources. We encourage you to find use of these tools and find ways to improve your development process. After all, developing websites shouldn’t be a task, it should be fun and rewarding. CSS Cheat Sheets As simple tool as this may seem, the CSS Cheat Sheet can be very useful. Telerik Visual Style Builder Telerik Visual Style Builder is an online CSS customization tool that allows you to easily, point-and-click customization of skins for the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. This tool is ideal for ASP.NET developers. CSS Type Set CSS Frame Generator Grid Designer MoreCSS YAML Builder
Cognitive Disabilities Something to Think About... The concept of cognitive disabilities is extremely broad, and not always well-defined. In loose terms, a person with a cognitive disability has greater difficulty with one or more types of mental tasks than the average person. A person with profound cognitive disabilities will need assistance with nearly every aspect of daily living. Functional vs. There are at least two ways to classify cognitive disabilities: by functional disability or by clinical disability. Memory Problem-solving Attention Reading, linguistic, and verbal comprehension Math comprehension Visual comprehension The main reason why these functional disabilities are more useful when considering web accessibility is that they are more directly related to the concerns of Web developers. Additionally, clinical diagnoses are not mutually exclusive in terms of what difficulties the people face. Memory refers to the ability of a user to recall what they have learned over time. Problem-Solving
Web 2.0 Design Guide - Web Design In this tutorial, I describe various common graphic design elements in modern web “2.0” design style. I then attempt to explain why they work (i.e. why they have become common), as well as how, when and where you might use each element in your designs. It follows on from my Current Style article, and analyses in greater depth the design features of the current “Web 2.0” design style. To learn how to design Web2.0 sites yourself, you must read “Save the Pixel – The Art of Simple Web Design”, which is a comprehensive guidebook to the principles and techniques of Web2.0 design. Summary of Best Web Design Features The list below is a summary of many of the common features of typical “Web 2.0” sites. Clearly, a site doesn’t need to exhibit all these features to work well, and displaying these features doesn’t make a design “2.0” – or good! I’ve already addressed some of these factors in my introductory Current Style article. Best Website Design? Web 2.0 ?! Best Web Design Features 1. When? Always! 2.
The League of Moveable Type 10 CSS Rules Every Web Designer Should Know Through experience as web designers we memorise all kinds of code syntax, hacks and snippets. With CSS in particular there is a number of rules and declarations that can really help transform your website designs and open up new possibilities when compared to older techniques. This post rounds up 10 declarations and tips that every web designer should have available in their CSS arsenal. @media screen and (max-width: 960px) { } The @media rule not only allows you to specify styling for your web page when printed. A cool and extremely useful CSS3 property that has now gained thorough browser support is background-size. One CSS3 property that has really helped transform the web over recent years is @font-face. The clever margin: 0 auto; declaration is one of the first snippets you learn when getting to grips with CSS. For those float clearing situations where overflow: hidden; doesn’t work, the best alternative is the clearfix technique.
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 .
25 Examples of Geometrical Shape Usage in Web Design I really like the way Wikipedia defines web design: “Web design is a broad term used to encompass the way that content is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web…”. And we have to say that web design is really all about the way you deliver content, so taking good care of shaping your website is something that’s very important. Websites are pretty much based on grids and columns, where geometrical forms are the main elements. Here we will show you some examples of how circles, squares, rectangles and triangles are used to better create beautiful and inspiring websites. Circles Full Stop Circles as a big logo getting all the attention to the studio’s name. Jarad Johnson Big circles thumbs to show you a bit of Jarad’s work. Daniel James Diggle The logo is a circle and the same circular idea was used in the top left side of the header to draw attention to the artist’s bio. Teknision Nice circular bubble drawing the attention to the “we’re hiring” part of the site. Material Group Squares
40 Beautiful Free Fonts For Creating Attractive Typography Headlines A sweet collection of carefully handpicked high quality free fonts, which are all suitable to be used for creating attractive typography headlines which will attract people’s attention. A collection of amazing fonts which are suitable and perfect for web design projects as well print based projects. There is a misconception by designers that free fonts are usually cheap looking and cannot be used in order to create a good design, but what designers don’t realise is that there is the odd good free font it just takes time in order to find the perfects ones. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. attempa 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. Which Is Your Favourite Free fonts from the list ?
Getting Real Here are the 16 chapters and 91 essays that make up the book. Introduction chapter 1 What is Getting Real?A smaller, faster, better way to build software About 37signalsOur small team creates simple, focused software Caveats, disclaimers, and other preemptive strikesResponses to some complaints we hear The Starting Line chapter 2 Build LessUnderdo your competition What's Your Problem? Stay Lean chapter 3 Less MassThe leaner you are, the easier it is to change Lower Your Cost of ChangeStay flexible by reducing obstacles to change The Three MusketeersUse a team of three for version 1.0 Embrace ConstraintsLet limitations guide you to creative solutions Be YourselfDifferentiate yourself from bigger companies by being personal and friendly Priorities chapter 4 What's the big idea? Feature Selection chapter 5 Process chapter 6 The Organization chapter 7 Staffing chapter 8 Interface Design chapter 9 Code chapter 10 Words chapter 11 Pricing and Signup chapter 12 Promotion chapter 13 Support chapter 14