For those who love iA’s Writer app, Justin Blanton has examined details of its visual and typographic design:
Read more here: How to make any app look like iA’s Writer — Justin Blanton — Hypertext.net
This looks worth checking out:
“an awesome HTML5 and CSS3 framework for making responsive, cross-browser websites with beautiful typography”
Most responsive and adaptive HTML/CSS frameworks or boilerplates start with desktop styles and use media queries to serve mobile browsers the right layout. The problem is that most mobiles won’t respond to these media queries because they don’t support it. Also, using a polyfill like Respond.js will not give you any result because they are very limited devices and don’t even support JavaScript.
But Gridless uses a different approach: it uses media queries to serve a progressively-enhanced responsive layout, starting from mobile and building up to desktop sizes.
via Gridless – An awesome boilerplate for responsive, cross-browser websites.
In a recent post, Ethan Marcotte clarifies his definition of “Responsive Web Design”:
A responsive design is composed of three distinct parts:
- A flexible grid.
- Flexible images. Or more specifically, images that work in a flexible context (whether fluid themselves, or perhaps controlled via overflow).
- Media queries. The final layer of a responsive design, media queries optimize the design for different viewing contexts, and spot-fix bugs that occur at different resolution ranges.
See Ethan’s post, On being “responsive” — Unstoppable Robot Ninja.
For those seeking seamless repeating background images for your web designs. The site has been stagnant lately — no new image packs since February — but still it’s worth checking out, if only for its nice wood pack.
Visit the site: Tileables – Never Ending Patterns
A 25-minute video tutorial introducing the concept of Responsive Web Design — using CSS media queries to adjust CSS design and layout to work well in variously-sized browsers across multiple devices — from Nettuts+.
Features some excellent examples of responsive designs, including:
See the original post: Responsive Web Design: A Visual Guide | Nettuts+.
Andy Clarke just helped turn the standard approach to web design on its head.
Until this moment web designers have begun by designing for computer monitors, then adding simplified designs for mobile devices at the end of things.
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