Responsive web design
With sites being accessed by an increasing array of devices and browsers, users deserve a quality experience no matter the size of their display. Ethan Marcotte explains how our designs can become more responsive.
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Wireframe tools: the top 10 solutions
Create your next prototype the easy way with our guide to the best wireframing tools out there
Every website design has to kick off somewhere, and in most cases, this initial starting point comes with the creation of wireframes. Choosing the right wireframe software can be a complex business, depending on your needs. There are plenty of straightforward and user-friendly online wireframing toolsread more
Best web design: How to create better layouts from scratch
When approaching a fresh site design, what’s the best way to tackle layout and ensure a guaranteed win? Elliot Jay Stocks shares his best web design tips
Ah, the blank canvas: probably my favourite part of the design process. What I love about it is the multitude of opportunities it represents: free rein to create without being encumbered by any of the restrictions that come into play further down the line. Anything can happen!
There are a number of ways to approach this stage. Some like ................. read more
Web fonts: the .net top 20
It’s easier than ever to get creative with typefaces. Elliot Jay Stocks picks 20 web fonts that demand your visitors’ attention
To say that right now is an exciting time for web typography is to make something of an understatement. Recent technological leaps and bounds have brought us one step closer to typographical nirvana on the web, and it’s a step that’s been an awfully long time coming.
The freedom to use typefaces beyond the ‘web safe’ fonts installed on most systems has come about largely thanks to three major and near-simultaneous technological factors: firstly, the widespread support for @font-face in browsers; secondly, the emergence of font delivery services such as Typekit and Fontdeck; and thirdly, the development of a new font format – the humble WOFF file – to address many of the foundries’ privacy concerns
But with great power comes great responsibility. Just because we can choose from a vast library of web fonts doesn’t mean we have to; there’s something to be said for painting with a limited palette. Not only that, but there are a lot of sub-standard fonts out there,..... read more
The Best Flash Sites Ever
When the first version of Flash was launched in 1996, little did we know how it would revolutionise website design over the ensuing decade. Rob Ford counts down the Top 20 Flash sites of all time
FutureSplash Animator shipped in May 1996 and after being unsuccessfully pitched to Adobe was acquired by Macromedia in December 1996, becoming Macromedia Flash 1.0. Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia then saw the initial pitch go full circle and today, what was once just another small animation app has led to the creation of a whole online world that we all pretty much take for granted.
Without doubt, Flash has become the design... read more
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