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Don’t think “mobile version of a website,” think “mobile component of a larger experience” The smart.fm iPhone app should not be a pared down version of the smart.fm website — a path that thinking of it as a “mobile version” might lead us down. Instead, we want the iPhone app to complement the website — not replicate or miniaturize it — and to support the larger experience of learning anytime and anywhere.
Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0
This document specifies Best Practices for delivering Web content to mobile devices. The principal objective is to improve the user experience of the Web when accessed from such devices.
12 Tips For Designing an Excellent Checkout Process | How-To | Smashing Magazine
Looking around for that checkout link, having to fill out registration forms and then being told the product is out of stock isn’t going to make your day. Spend a little bit of time fine tuning your checkout process and polishing off the user experience and you’ll be rewarded with happier customers and more sales. Here are 12 useful tips to help you do just that.
Graceful Degradation & Progressive Enhancement - Accessites.org
Graceful degradation and progressive enhancement are two sides of the same coin. Both are — in this context — applied to make a web site accessible to any user agent, while providing improved aesthetics and/or usability for more capable browsers. The diff
Minimalism Around the Web: Design Inspiration & WordPress Themes - Tutorial9
This post showcases minimalist design from around the web, and briefly explains the ideology of minimalism. It is to be used as inspiration for anyone, and as a resource for web designers.
On having layout — the concept of hasLayout in IE/Win
A lot of Internet Explorer's rendering inconsistencies can be fixed by giving an element “layout.” John Gallant and Holly Bergevin classified these inconsistencies as “dimensional bugs,” meaning that they can often be solved by applying a width or height.
Use jQuery
All the sites listed in this showcase have one thing in common: they use the great javascript library jQuery in some way. Feel free to get inspired if you Use jQuery too!
Fluid 960 Grid System | 16-column Grid
The Fluid 960 Grid System templates have been built upon the work of Nathan Smith and his 960 Grid System using effects from the Mootools JavaScript library. The idea for building these templates was inspired by Andy Clarke, author of Transcending CSS, wh
John Resig - Sub-Pixel Problems in CSS
Something that jumped at me, recently, was a rendering dilemma that browsers have to encounter, and gracefully handle, on a day-by-day basis with little, to no, standardization.
Take the following page for example. You have 4 floated divs, each with a wi
New year, new design | stopdesign
With a bit of humility and even a little nervousness, it’s time to take the wraps off a new design I’ve been working on for nearly a month. My hesitation comes not from revealing the new design, but from my decision early on to make the site more personal
A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Grids
Instead of exploring the benefits of flexible web design, we rely on a little white lie: “minimum screen resolution.” These three words contain a powerful magic, under the cover of which we churn out fixed-width layout after fixed-width layout, perhaps re
CSS Image Maps - Flickr-like Technique?
Image MapsBelow is a sample image map that's built entirely using CSS and XHTML. While I've added support for Javascript (item titles are simply displayed beneath the image), I've disabled it in this example -- I've run into a bit of a problem when JS is
Emblematiq :: Vertical Align with CSS
If vertical align is a snap using tables, it can prove quite troublesome with CSS layouts. But you shouldn’t let such a small thing discourage you. I, for one, don’t like to see a perfectly valid CSS layout mingled with some tables just for this purpose.
How to Add Variables to Your CSS Files - Nettuts+
This technique is somewhat simple. We will ask Apache to redirect any stylesheet to a specific PHP script. This script will open the stylesheet, and read it line by line to find and replace any user-defined variables. Finally the parsed content will be di
A List Apart: Articles: Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer
Theory often takes a back seat to practice in the field of web design—after all, it’s hard enough to keep up with the latest acronyms without trying to carve out time for navel gazing about the profession. As a result, innovation in the way we think about
The Future of WordPress Themes 2009
Last year’s Future of WordPress Themes (read it here) found 11 people committed to thinking creatively about WordPress themes stopping to look where WordPress theming was heading—and now we’re doing it again! These 15 people—designers, developers, and Wor
Home - oocss - GitHub
How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? Nicole first presented Object Oriented CSS at Web Directions North in Denver. Since then, the response has been overwhelming. OOCSS allows you to write fast, maintainable, standards-base
Color + Design Blog / 2009 Color Predictions by COLOURlovers
Since Pantone recently selected their color of the year, Mimosa, and their spring fashion color predictions have been out for a while, i thought it was time to have a look at what their predictions looked like and check in with the current trends here at
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