A very cool and new (at least to me) concept: CSS media queries. This will allow us to set CSS for specific screen sizes: from the 480px wide handheld devices to the 1920px wide monitors.
Please note that this is different than the liquid/flexible layouts usually based on percentages. CSS media queries allows you to control [...]
Here’s a great article about how the UI for Twitter for Android was designed.
It touches on seven UI features and behavior patterns:
Contacts Sync with Address Book at Sign in
Twitter account integration with QuickContact for Android
Dashboard
Action Bar
Search Bar
QuickActions
Companion Widget
I came across these nicely formatted CSS print cheat sheets – for both CSS2.1 and CSS3. For any of you who may be tired looking up the CSS values for the position attribute (for the 13th time).
CSS 2.1 Cheat Sheet (PDF)
CSS 3 Cheat Sheet (PDF)
You have to feel pretty good when the vendor that is pitching you is apologizing for its own website after looking at yours. “Went wild with praise” is the operative term in the email thread below.
Nice work design team!
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 11:23 AM
To: (Dir. Marketing)
Cc: (EVP)
Subject: IOA Web Design has the [...]
Here’s a font resource that I heard about at DrupalCon:
Typekit – The easiest way to use Real Fonts on your website
Description from their website:
Typekit is the easiest way to use real fonts on the web. It’s a subscription-based service for linking [...]
CAPTCHA has become ubiquitous on the web recently, including on sites we have built. However, in my recent accessibility research for a recent project I came across this article which urges developers to stop using CAPTCHA since, in the words of the author:
“CAPTCHAs fail to properly recognize users with disabilities as human.”
and…
“External projects… [...]
Today I read a Linux Magazine article hilighting some of Chrome’s 3000 extensions. A particular one that caught my attention is called BuiltWith Technology Profiler.
BuiltWith does what its title says: it profiles a site for the technologies it uses, and then gives you a little report. I like how it picks up on Cufon [...]
Came across Protovis as I was thinking about different ways to report financial data for EEBA. There’s a good gallery of examples. Some of the examples show the same data presented in different formats. A great exercise to determine what types of graphic best represents different types of data.
You want to place one on an HTML page so a visitor can share the page with others on Facebook. You see these a lot in blog posts and news articles.
Here’s how to put one on a page:
Step 1: Go here, set your options (like whether you want a counter included) and copy the html [...]
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