March 2012
9 posts
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What are we waiting for?
The internet has already provided us with tools that allow citizens to participate in direct democracy. This has been the case for years, and yet here we are, still waiting for meaningful change. The politicians, as in other instances, are refusing to let go of the past, and are thus simply holding back on innovation.
By using the web and open source software, we open up the decision making...
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Introducing Fluidable: A fluid/liquid CSS grid...
Since I started making responsive sites, I have been building a fluid grid system that fits my needs as a designer and a developer. Since there aren’t NEARLY enough CSS grid systems out there, I decided to write some documentation and put the code up on Github.
Fluidable works on IE7+ and is built using LESS. It has fixed gutters set in ems and can do nested columns. It also has basic media...
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Responsive Design: Why use a fluid layout?
When developing a responsive web site, one of the first decisions one has to make is whether to use a fixed (pixel/em) or a fluid percentage based layout. As a developer and a designer, a fluid layout can offer a robust and flexible way when building responsive web sites. Here are a few reasons to go fluid:
Fluid layout can help you future proof your design, making your site adaptable to new...
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Requirements for a responsive CSS framework
I have been working on a CSS framework for using when building responsive web sites. In the process, I have been thinking about the requirements for such a framework. Here is a list that I am following:
Moible first: Mobile devices should only load the needed CSS, and nothing more, to optimize bandwidth usage.
Fluid/Liquid layout: No questions about it, responsive sites have to be percentage...
The Select Menu Navigation Pattern →
oktavilla:
Andy Clark continues the discussion on select menu navigation and concludes: Let’s design something better. Totally agree, let’s!
Mobile first
Chances are you have heard about the concept “Mobile first” in relations to the mobile and responsive design paradigm shift. Firstly, mobile first can be one of two things:
A way to prioritize resources like CSS and images to optimize the bandwidth needed for mobile devices. This is an essential part of creating a responsive web sites.
New design philosophy of designing first for...
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Spend your money on creating
The web is still a teen by all measures, and there is certainly much room for improvement in how web sites are created. I am not talking specifically about technology so much as I am referring to the web content that is currently out there, and more importantly, the web content that is lacking altogether! As companies morph into software companies of their own, they will need to re-think...
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History of layout in web design
In the beginning (back in early nineties), there wasn’t much in the way of design or layout on the web. Everything was basically a single column layout, with very long lines of text. Around that time, somebody got the fine idea of using tables to create columns that could include many paragraphs of text and photos and not just simple data. This would cause quite the debates for many...
