Flat Pixels: The Battle Between Flat Design And Skeuomorphism
Good to revisit this topic every now and then.
Flat Pixels: The Battle Between Flat Design And Skeuomorphism.
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RyRy
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RyRy
Love Full Stop’s style Here’s a fantastic…
Love Full Stop’s style. Here’s a fantastic responsive site from them that just launched.
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RyRy
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greg
going to have to disagree. The majority of the massive graphics have a lot of text in them that isn’t in the markup – meaning it can’t be searchable or display to screen-readers. And the “Big News” goes to an Access Denied page…
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RyRy
Hmmm, I’m not getting that error. Agree that the info graphics aren’t searchable, but they sure look perty!
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RyRy
6 Easy Ways to Make Your Website Tablet-Friendly.
If you haven’t already, now is the time to prioritize your website’s design considerations for tablet functionality. Ignoring this could negatively impact your website’s overall conversion rate, return visits, sales and more.
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Bobby
Trimming the Fat of a Responsive Site
So responsive not only means rethinking your content, but also the code behind the content. For the Dev’s out there this is a great example of how to optimize your code base to really make a responsive site hum. Or at least this guys experience with it.
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Michael
PNC updated their Virtual Wallet site – not the application itself, just the informational site: https://www.pncvirtualwallet.com/
It has its nice points. Over all, however, i found too many jerks and odd redraws.
I like that they went this route – now if they’d only improve the actual Virtual Wallet – no more flash! fewer data calls!-
greg
the old site was better
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Bobby
10 Brands Using Responsive Design | Digiday
You know RWD has hit the main stream when online mags like Digiday pick it up and write leading articles about it.
This is a pretty cool collection of RWD sites that major brands are using.
10 Brands Using Responsive Design | Digiday.
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Randy
Adaptive Images detects your visitor’s screen size and automatically creates, caches, and delivers device appropriate re-scaled versions of your web page’s embeded HTML images. No mark-up changes needed. It is intended for use with Responsive Designs and to be combined with Fluid Image techniques.
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Bobby
Whiteboard Framework for WordPress.
Another responsive WP framework for your viewing delight.
Powerful, clean, and well-noted code for efficient WordPress theme development
Whiteboard Framework has been helping WordPress developers cut back on their development time and improve their WordPress powered websites since 2008.
Whiteboard framework for WordPress was developed to speed up the development of WordPress themes. Whiteboard does so by eliminating the time spent on code common to all WordPress themes and includes non-intrusive code that improves the overall WordPress theme in many ways – including SEO, speed, usability, mobile support, and multi-lingual support.
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Bobby
Responsive Design’s Dirty Little Secret | Palantir.net
Food for thought:
The truth is that fluid grids are broken. Well… perhaps just cracked a bit. Responsive Web design, as Ethan Marcotte defines it, is simply a fluid grid, fluid images and media queries. But fluid grids have a dirty little secret: rounding errors. As we lay out our columns in percentages, browsers have to translate that into actual device pixels to fit in the viewport. And Chrome, Safari, other WebKit browsers, Opera, and the usual suspects (IE 6 and 7) all produce “errors”.
While as a designer and not a developer I don’t quite understand what the big issue is here (and neither does @rwd aka Ethan Marcotte) it’s still a good thing to think about. Responsive Design isn’t perfect yet, and it seems yet again we’re going to have to wait for the browsers to catch up.
Responsive Design’s Dirty Little Secret | Palantir.net.
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Bobby
responsive table patterns
A lot of people, myself included, have kind of glossed over the elephant in the room when it comes to responsive design. TABLES!
Well fear no more. This is n excellent example of how to handle tables when utilizing a responsive design on a data heavy site/page.
Visit this page to see it in action
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Bobby
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Bobby
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Bobby
Better background images for responsive web design
Better background images for responsive web design » Blog » Elliot Jay Stocks.
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Bobby
How to Approach a Responsive Design | Upstatement.
A must read:
So we lined up the usual suspects from Adobe. Who would be our partner in crime — Photoshop? Illustrator? InDesign?
Hands down, the answer was InDesign. At its core, BostonGlobe.com is a publication website, and InDesign is the best tool for laying out publications and content. Yes, there are huge differences between designing print publications and designing for the web, but consider this: Most web pages are simply a combination of photos and text. And where Photoshop excels at manipulating images (but sucks at type) and Illustrator is exceptional at typography (but sucks with images), InDesign is built for both……
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greg
Responsive Web Design Primer
SitePoint posted a nice Responsive primer, although more technical in nature… its still a quick, easy read.
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Bobby
Responsive Tables 2 – David Bushell – Web Design & Front-end Development
Responsive Tables 2 – David Bushell – Web Design & Front-end Development.
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Bobby
24 ways: Adaptive Images for Responsive Designs.
So you’ve been building some responsive designs and you’ve been working through your checklist of things to do:
- You started with the content and designed around it, with mobile in mind first.
- You’ve gone liquid and there’s nary a px value in sight; % is your weapon of choice now.
- You’ve baked in a few media queries to adapt your layout and tweak your design at different window widths.
- You’ve made your images scale to the container width using the fluid Image technique.
- You’ve even done the same for your videos using a nifty bit of JavaScript.
You’ve done a good job so pat yourself on the back. But there’s still a problem and it’s as tricky as it is important: image resolutions.
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Bobby
24 ways: Conditional Loading for Responsive Designs.
…But what happens when you apply your media queries for larger viewports and you dohave sidebars and multiple columns? Well, you can load in that nice-to-have content using the same kind of Ajax functionality that Paul described in his article last year. The difference is that you first run a quick test to see if the viewport is wide enough to accommodate the subsidiary content. This is conditional delayed loading….
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Bobby
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Bobby
25 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts.
The most popular topic of discussion at the moment is undoubtedly responsive layouts in web design. Without going discussing too much what you will already know, a responsive layout allows you to offer a specific and optimised screen size based on whatever device (mobile, tablet…) the visitor uses.
RyRy and 
greg are discussing. 
had to fix that link.. the previous link was to one of the pages in the site.