Tag Archives: HTML

A Pure CSS3 Cycling Slideshow

April 26, 2012   SmashingMagazine.com

A Pure CSS3 Cycling Slideshow

Thanks to CSS3, we can create effects and animations without using JavaScript, which will facilitate the work of many designers.

But we must be careful to avoid abusing CSS3, not only because old browsers do not support all of its properties. In any case, we all see the potential of CSS3, and in this article we’ll discuss how to create an infinitely looping slider of images using only CSS3 animation.

Sections of This Article

To get a solid sense of the process from beginning to end, below is an outline of the article. Please note that this effect will only work properly in modern browsers that support the CSS3 properties being used.

  1. Introduction
    Learn basic concepts related to CSS3 transitions

    Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmashingMagazine/~3/DqCenf4a3hs/

Read More

Mental Model Diagrams (Cartoon)

April 24, 2012   SmashingMagazine.com

Mental Model Diagrams (Cartoon)

We tend to carefully create our HTML and CSS, and meticulously place every pixel to our designs. We plan exactly where our content should be placed on a particular site. Among many other decisions we need to make, we always keep in mind to craft a great experience for all our users. But how do we know what our users really want?

One way is to understand the motivations that drive users in general. A mental model diagram can be created to do just that—to dive deeper and discover what users are trying to accomplish, and then create solutions that match.

In this comic, Indi and Brad introduce mental model diagrams to us

Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmashingMagazine/~3/B5G2h2iKI0s/

Read More

Decoupling HTML From CSS

April 21, 2012   SmashingMagazine.com

Decoupling HTML From CSS

For years, the Web standards community has talked about the separation of concerns. Separate your CSS from your JavaScript from your HTML. We all do that, right? CSS goes into its own file; JavaScript goes in another; HTML is left by itself, nice and clean.

CSS Zen Garden proved that we can alter a design into a myriad of permutations simply by changing the CSS. However, we’ve rarely seen the flip side of this — the side that is more likely to occur in a project: the HTML changes. We modify the HTML and then have to go back and revise any CSS that goes with it.

In this way, we haven’t really separated

Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmashingMagazine/~3/CPfh5pYgYJ8/

Read More

Drop Caps: Historical Use And Current Best Practices With CSS

April 7, 2012   SmashingMagazine.com

Drop Caps: Historical Use And Current Best Practices With CSS

The practice of using a large letter to mark the start of a text has been around for almost two thousand years. Illustrated caps increased usability by marking important passages and guiding readers through the text. Unlike their historic counterparts, drop caps on the Web don’t add value in terms of usability or readability—and they are hard for Web developers to control, often rendering differently across browsers.

Yet, front-end designers and clients often want to use drop caps as decorative elements. How should we implement them? Just as scribes, artisans, and early printers had a variety of methods for creating initial capitals, we Web designers have multiple methods to choose from. We

Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmashingMagazine/~3/g3mXsbt1yEg/

Read More

Why magazines look bad on new iPad

March 28, 2012   CNN.com


Image and video files need to be delivered at a higher resolution to accommodate the new iPad′s sharper screen.

(Mashable) — As with any high-profile product release, Apple’s new iPad device has been peppered with complaints since reaching consumers’ hands on March 16. Among them: that magazines look terrible on the iPad 3′s high-resolution display.

The complaints were first brought to light by Tumblr blogger Jamie Billett. He pointed out that in the New Yorker’s iPad app, the text on some pages is rendered as HTML, and the text on other pages is rendered as an image (.png) file.

The latter pages now appear “badly aliased” — i.e. conspicuously pixelated — throughout the app because the images haven’t been formatted to accommodate the iPad 3′s 2048 x 1536-pixel resolution, he

Article source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_technology/~3/FwbkbzPb5xQ/index.html

Read More
« Older posts