Design patterns for mobile are emerging as the platform matures. Theresa Neil’s new book Mobile Design Pattern Gallery provides solutions to common design challenges. Read a sample chapter on Invitations and learn how to immediately engage your customers with your application.
Read MoreOver the past few years the number of fonts available for use in web design has dramatically increased. It wasn’t long ago that we all knew not to stray further than the basic Arial, Helvetica, Times, Georgia mix, but now there’s a range of services that allow the use of almost any font imaginable in your website design. This post rounds up the various custom web font solutions and looks at the pros and cons of each.
Read MoreThe business card remains one of the most effective ways of promoting yourself and your brand offline. Business cards are regularly exchanged at conferences, expos, meetings, interviews and more. With so many printing services offering fantastic deals (large quantities of cards at low rates); it is a relatively irrelevant expense for those who truly want to network. Add to that the number of free business card templates available, and getting your business card design right is easier than ever.
Read MorePhotoshop has some powerful tools to help you create gorgeous interfaces. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a clean iPad interface using Photoshop’s powerful toolbox.
Read MoreJavascriptis one of a web designer’s best friends. Learning how to use this powerful tool to its fullest potential can prove invaluable to our work and our clients. jQuery helps make JS more accessible.jQuery is a free, fast, and concise JavaScript library that allows you to efficiently write cross-browser javascript code to make Ajax requests, animate elements, manipulate the DOM, and do a variety of user interface manipulations.
Read MoreDojo is officially called the Dojo Toolkit. This is actually very fitting. Most other collections of lines of JavaScript available bill themselves as frameworks or libraries. A framework is a more or less end-to-end solution for building good web applications, and a library is a collection of tools that assist you with a few specific (usually related) tasks. Dojo fits into both categories, and then some. It’s got all the DOM manipulation, events and animation helpers, and AJAX functions that you’d get with a library like jQuery. But there’s more, much more.
When we combine movements (transforms) of inanimate objects over different timeframes (transitions) we get animation. CSS3 expands on what’s possible with transforms and transitions with the aptly named animations module and Steven Bradley would like to spend some time today looking through that module. He created a simple animation demo to go along with this post. By no means is this award winning animation. In fact it’s pretty cheesy, but hopefully it illustrates how to work with animation.
This is a question that has been answered in a number of different places. Unfortunately, the answers in some instances have not been good ones. In fact, they’ve either been way too optimistic and/or presumptuous — or else just downright wrong.
This workflow won’t be perfect for everyone, and it certainly won’t be the most efficient method if you’re developing sites or apps that don’t have much of an IE-based audience. But if IE users are a large part of the site’s target or present audience, then this workflow could potentially help you avoid using too many IE-only exceptions, and you’ll probably also gain a much better understanding of how older browsers handle various CSS techniques.