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Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touchscreen Target Sizes
21 Feb 2012 | 4:18 pm
In darts, hitting the bulls-eye is harder to do than hitting any other part of the dartboard. This is because the bullseye is the smallest target. This same principle can also apply to touch targets on mobile devices. Smaller touch targets[…]
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Beautiful Covers: An Interview With Chip Kidd
20 Feb 2012 | 3:00 am
The work of Chip Kidd spans design, writing and, most recently, rock ’n’ roll. He definitely has the charisma to get ahead in that third field. He is best known for his unconventional book jackets, but he has published[…]
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Stop Writing Project Proposals
17 Feb 2012 | 1:00 am
After several grueling days I had finally finished the proposal. I sent it off and waited for a response. Nothing. After a few weeks, I discovered that they were “just looking”. Despite the urgency and aggressive timeline for the[…]
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Technology - Languages
Written by D.L.
Monday, 23 August 2010 14:20
It's fine to talk about web design, but web design is nothing without a web page. To understand web design, we must begin by understanding what is a web page; it will come in handy. What is a web page? Is HTML just a series of tags? How can we make a web page pretty and presentable? Is there anything lying behind this object now extremely common and what? When you publish a web page what happens exactly? Let's make a quick inventory of what a web page is, what the underlying concepts are and how to have fun with all of this.
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Technology - Norms and standards
Written by E. C.G.
Wednesday, 23 June 2010 09:06
After reading the article on the ideal width of web sites, we now know the ideal width of websites for a better display on most monitors. But is there a way to designate web sites so that they fit all screen resolutions? This article presents different solutions.
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Technology - Norms and standards
Written by E. C.G.
Thursday, 17 June 2010 08:11
When one begin the design of a website, the question of the width of the site to make happens quickly. We browse the web mainly through three channels: through our computer screens (increasingly large), our laptops (wider than tall) and our smartphones (fairly small). What is then the ideal size of web sites?
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Technology - Languages
Written by J.-N. R.
Monday, 17 May 2010 09:37
A CSS 2 technique for decorating fluid HTML elements (blocks of unknown dimensions). Adding decorations to fluid HTML elements (blocks that don't have fixed dimensions) is surprisingly very hard to do in CSS 2.1. The situation is much better in CSS 3 with the Backgrounds and Borders module. But if you want to support the currently deployed versions of Internet Explorer (versions 6, 7, and 8 account for 60% of all web traffic as of June 2010), you're stuck with CSS 2.1 and a difficult task. This article explains why decorating fluid elements is hard, and demonstrates a technique to achieve such a goal. No JavaScript hacks here; only pure W3C compliant CSS and HTML, with some images.
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