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Conception responsive : obtenir une validation sans maquettes Par Matt Griffin Concevoir un site web dans Photoshop, quelle drôle d'idée ! Comment avons-nous pu nous mentir à ce point pendant des années ? Heureusement le besoin grandissant de devoir afficher les sites web sur différents supports pousse à la conception dans le navigateur web. Retour d'expérience sur un processus qui pourrait devenir la norme dans les années à venir. Si vous concevez des sites Web, il y a des chances pour que vous ayez déjà réfléchi à la question des différentes étapes d’un processus de conception adaptée aux différentes largeurs d’écrans — et vous en avez sûrement conclu qu’ajouter une maquette pour chaque point de rupture était une approche ni durable ni efficace. Du moins, c’est ce qui s’est passé dans mon entreprise — Bearded — où pendant des années nous avons créé des sites Web à l’aide de Photoshop ou d’Illustrator, fait valider ces maquettes par nos clients, puis recréé ces designs à l’aide de CSS. Ce temps est révolu. Parlons processus Signez ici
Showcase of Beautiful Typography in Web Design Nov 23 2009 Everybody loves a nice bit of typography. This year we have seen some absolutely stunning typographic layouts used in print, web and game design. Using typography in web design can really help to spice things up, so take a look through these beautiful examples of typography used in modern web design to help inspire you when it comes to producing your own typography based designs for the web. There are many different styles that are used nowadays when it comes to typography in web design – a lot of them are put into place in minimalistic and simple designs such as ALGA New Yorks, Buddy Carrs Skateboards and Corking Designs website, all of which use large, bold lettering on a simplistic design which typically uses no more than 3 or 4 colors. Jam Hot is just one of the many in this showcase that uses incredible Flash effects to produce awesome animated typography combined with great illustration – a real eye opener! Beautiful Typography in Web Design Oliver Kavanagh Fray Gummisig
A new Google Sitemap Generator for your website It's been well over three years since we initially announced the Python Sitemap generator in June 2005. In this time, we've seen lots of people create great third-party Sitemap generators to help webmasters create better Sitemap files. While most Sitemap generators either crawl websites or list the files on a server, we have created a different kind of Sitemap generator that uses several ways to find URLs on your website and then allows you to automatically create and maintain different kinds of Sitemap files. About Google Sitemap Generator Our new open-source Google Sitemap Generator finds new and modified URLs based on your webserver's traffic, its log files, or the files found on the server. By combining these methods, Google Sitemap Generator can be very fast in finding these URLs and calculating relevant metadata, thereby making your Sitemap files as effective as possible. Sending the URLs to the right Sitemap files is simple thanks to the web-based administration console.
Free Fonts Download 8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs • Blog Archive • AisleOne I wrote this article for Smashing Magazine and it was published last Friday on their site. I’m re-publishing it here for your reading pleasure. Enjoy. Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. For most people it ends there. But there is much more to achieving good typography and it’s in the details that designers often neglect. These details give the designer total control, allowing them to create beautiful and consistent typography in their designs. Measure The measure is the length of a line of type. A simple way to calculate the measure is to use Robert Bringhurst’s method which multiples the type size by 30. Leading Leading is the space between the lines of type in a body of copy that plays a big role in readability. Many factors affect leading: typeface, type size, weight, case, measure, wordspacing, etc. Hanging Quotes Scale
Fashionably flexible website design by Stuff & Nonsense There’s nothing that inspires us more than a good story and Sophie Macfarlane’s account of how she took over her grandparents’ conservation in Northern Kenya was one such story. Rudi M van Dijk Foundation When we heard the story of the National Iraqi Youth Orchestra’s and how the Rudi Martinus van Dijk Foundation supports them, we wanted to devote some of our ‘good causes support days’ to designing a new website. Evolve Beyond Gabrielle Benefield needed to create a unified visual identity across all her activities. She wanted a brand that reflects her personality and that stands apart from her competitors. The Environment Bank The team at The Environment Bank inspired us every day to create something special to help to promote their important environmental work. pairoo We designed striking new branding for this German dating site and gave them a toolkit of styles for them to build their site.
Typography Meets Infographics on Datavisualization Fontshop is celebrating its 20th birthday and they invite us to celebrate with them. On this occasion they’ve created a delicate infographic documenting amusing and enlightening statistics. If you like what you see there’s more for you to celebrate: the infographic is growing over the coming weeks. Designing Social Interfaces: Overview and Practical Techniques - Advertisement The standard approach to interface design is to craft a channel that allows you to easily and efficiently control hardware or software; it’s all about the interaction between people and computers. But today, the two entities on each side of the user interface are changing: it’s no longer about people interacting with computers, but rather about people interacting with people through computers. This is the nature of the social Web. Social news websites, message boards, social networks, online stores and blogs all have some sort of user interaction going on, whether it’s comments on a blog post or social games on Facebook. In essence, we control the flow of user interaction on our websites. “Small software implementation details result in big differences in the way the community develops, behaves and feels.” — Joel Spolsky, More Joel on Software In this article, we’ll demonstrate the power of social interface design and what it can do for you, using several practical examples.
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