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Flash Design - 5 Tips to Create Interesting Flash-Lite Games - 0 views

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    For creating Flash Lite games, paying attention to various aspects is important. These can include choosing the perfect font, following the base build, porting the game, and offering incentives to users.
anonymous

Website Design - How Feedback Can Help You Sharpen Your Skills ? - 0 views

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    Asking for feedback of your web designs can help you to know new things and sharpen your skills. To enjoy the benefits of feedback, adopt an open approach. Avoid taking negative feedback personally. Rather, evaluate it from a neutral point of view. It will help you to understand the weak points of your designs.
Vernon Fowler

Font sizing with rem - Snook.ca - 0 views

  • The problem with em-based font sizing is that the font size compounds. A list within a list isn't 14px, it's 20px. Go another level deeper and it's 27px!
  • The rem unit is relative to the root—or the html—element. That means that we can define a single font size on the html element and define all rem units to be a percentage of that. html { font-size: 62.5%; } body { font-size: 1.4rem; } /* =14px */ h1 { font-size: 2.4rem; } /* =24px */
  • We can specify the fall-back using px, if you don't mind users of older versions of Internet Explorer still being unable to resize the text (well, there's still page zoom in IE7 and IE8). To do so, we specify the font-size using px units first and then define it again using rem units. html { font-size: 62.5%; } body { font-size: 14px; font-size: 1.4rem; } /* =14px */ h1 { font-size: 24px; font-size: 2.4rem; } /* =24px */
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  • I'm defining a base font-size of 62.5% to have the convenience of sizing rems in a way that is similar to using px.
  • consistent and predictable sizing in all browsers, and resizable text in the current versions of all major browsers
  • The compounding nature of em-based font-sizing can be frustrating so what else can we do?
Vernon Fowler

Replacing the -9999px hack (new image replacement) - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily... - 0 views

  • My friend Scott Kellum, design director at Treesaver, has now sent me this refactored code for hiding text, which I hereby christen the Kellum Method: .hide-text { text-indent: 100%; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; } Really long strings of text will never flow into the container because they always flow away from the container. Performance is dramatically improved because a 9999px box is not drawn. Noticeably so in animations on the iPad 1.
  • Scott Kellum said on 1 March 2012 at 3:41 pm: I went ahead and created a side by side site to test the performance: http://lab.pgdn.us/hidden-text-performance/ @Ethan, This is the best 43min I have ever spent learning about optimizing the performance of my CSS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuMWhto62Eo
  • Would be interesting to understand both the SEO and accessibility impacts of this approach.
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  • Scott Kellum said on 2 March 2012 at 4:06 pm: After much deliberation over here: https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/1005#issuecomment-4293007 Jonathan Neal suggested a method using font: 0/0 serif; and things seem to be settling on this — .ir { font: 0/0 serif; text-shadow: none; color: transparent; }
  • While I think this is certainly and interesting approach, I have some concerns with the accessibility. In some, if not all, cases when overflow: hidden; hides the content of the element this is applied to from screen readers. In most cases where I use image replacement, I still need the text to be accessible (e.g. call to action buttons set in Gotham). See Aaron Gustafson’s A List Apart article, http://www.alistapart.com/articles/now-you-see-me/. Has anyone tested this with a wide battery of screen readers or other accessibility devices?
  • Another note on accessibility: Besides the screen reader problems – people who don’t get images will not see the text too.
  • As a few people said already, this does not solve the accessibility problem that comes with text-indent. Worse, it may send the wrong message: “this is new and cool, use this from now!”. As a leader in the industry, I think you should warn people that even if this is “better” in term of performance, it is still a bad solution. Imo, Image Replacement techniques should be evaluated against the problems they solve/address. Fwiw, I wrote something about these challenges a few years back: http://tjkdesign.com/articles/tip.asp </shameless plug>
Vernon Fowler

Scout - Compass and Sass without all the hassle - 0 views

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    "Since Sass and Compass are Ruby gems, they require that you have a working knowledge of Ruby and the command line. Not all designers will know how or want to use command line tools, and that's where Scout steps in. Scout runs Sass and Compass in a self-contained Ruby environment, letting you effortlessly manage all of your Sass projects with a handful of clicks. You'll never have to worry about your Ruby setup or deal with technical issues. Scout does all of the heavy lifting, giving you more time to do what you love."
tech vedic

Change the Size of a Web Page - 0 views

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    You often find text in web pages which is very difficult to read. To read the font clearly, you can make the page bigger. Further, some web browsers allow you to zoom in and out.
tech vedic

How to buy a smartphone for business? - 0 views

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    Shopping is not an easy task. When it comes to buy a gadget for your work related needs, you need to be very specific and attentive. In this tutorial, we are highlighting business features among the different operating systems as well as the best specs for business which you should keep in mind while purchasing your smartphone.
tech vedic

Tackle stubborn disk partitioning in OS X - 0 views

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    Generally, to partition and format a disk in OS X you open "Disk Utility", select the disk in the tool's sidebar and then click use the Partition tab to select and apply a partition scheme. But, it may result in errors sometimes. In this tutorial, we are giving some ways to partition a drive using third-party tools.
yc c

Font Squirrel | Create Your Own @font-face Kits - 4 views

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    download and/or convert fonts Upload a font and this will spit out everything you need to embed it into a website including HTML, CSS and multiple font file formats. You'll definitely want to bookmark this one! Each @font-face font kit come with: Original TrueType or OpenType Fonts for Firefox 3.5+ , Opera 10+, Safari 3.1+, Chrome 4.0.249.4+EOT fonts for Internet Explorer 4+Demo.html and stylesheet.css so you can get going fastNOTE: All fonts are subset to the Mac Roman char set.
my mashable

HOW TO: Create Groups for Twitter - 0 views

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    One of the most demanded features for Twitter has been the ability to create groups, allowing members to focus on different sets of people they're following. For example, you could create groups for all of your fantasy league friends, colleagues at work, friends in real life, family members, and so on.
my mashable

Google Can't Do Old Media; Pulls the Plug on Radio Ads - 0 views

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    Google's plans to extend its AdWords platform to traditional media appears to be going up in smoke as the economy falters. The company has announced that it's discontinuing its radio advertising program, a business it got into back in 2006 with the acquisition of dMarc Broadcasting. The news follows word that Google would be pulling out of print advertising as well, which was announced less than a month ago.
my mashable

5 Tips to Get More Traffic for Your Blog - 0 views

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    So you have a new blog and you think the posts are pretty good? Don't know how to get more loyal and valuable readers to your blog? ok then let me tell you some cool tips that i have learnt and implemented with my blogs with you.
my mashable

Facebook Responds to Concerns Over Terms of Service - 0 views

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    Today's hoopla over changes to the Facebook Terms of Service have prompted a rare blog post from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the post, Zuckerberg falls short of apologizing for the changes, but rather, uses the opportunity to explain why Facebook more or less keeps your content indefinitely.
yc c

CSS Optimization: Make Your Sites Load Faster for Free by Blogging Pro - 0 views

  • While a lot of people are out to optimize their sites/blogs, most everyone seems to skip over CSS. I have been spending some time looking at CSS Optimization tools today. I wanted something free, online, and easy to use. And of course, something that worked. There are actually quite a few websites that fit the bill, and some of them are easier to use, produce more friendly code, and others are a bit harder to use, but can produce amazing results.
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    oh,, that would be hard to find the differences between before and after optimizing..
Gary Edwards

Grid design basics: Grids for Web page layouts - Opera Developer Community - 2 views

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    Since tables were co-opted for layout purposes, columns have become key to many Web design layouts, and this thinking continued when CSS took over from tables (at least in the minds of savvy designers) for Web-page presentation. However, other fields of layout design don't think in arbitrary columns, they work with grids, and these form the basis for the structure of page designs. This article will provide the lowdown on grid design for Web pages. Thinking modular Grids are a template, a framework within which creativity can flourish. Too many designers spend time looking at a blank canvas, trying to figure out where elements should be positioned, but, if you have a flexible underlying grid, many such problems are already solved for you. It becomes obvious where and how elements should and can be positioned, thereby leaving you, the designer, with more time to work on graphic design and other page components.
Zulkarnain K.

Mozilla Developer Web Tech Blog - 1 views

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    Keeping track of Mozilla development is never easy, especially the minute details related to new or improved web technology development and support. The Mozilla development community has set up a new weblog to fix this, the Web Tech weblog. Here the devs will be posting about and discussing topics of interest to web developers.
Frederik Van Zande

How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time | Anthony Short | Web Design & Develo... - 0 views

  • Here is a quick summary for those of you who don't want to read the whole article: Always use strict doctype and standards-compliant HTML/CSS Always use a reset at the start of your css Use opacity:0.99 on text elements to clean up rendering in Safari Never resize images in the CSS or HTML Check font rendering in every browser. Don't use Lucida Size text as a % in the body, and as em's throughout All layout divs that are floated should include display:inline and overflow:hidden Containers should have overflow:auto and trigger hasLayout via a width or height Don't use any fancy CSS3 selectors Don't use transparent PNG's unless you have loaded the alpha
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    Cross-browser compatibility is one of the most time consuming tasks for any web designer. We've seen many different articles over the net describing common problems and fixes. I've collated all the information I could find to create some coding conventions for ensuring that your site will work first time in every browser. There are some things you should consider for Safari and Firefox also, and IE isn't always the culprit for your CSS woes.
Frederik Van Zande

A List Apart: Articles: Faux Absolute Positioning - 0 views

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    There are two popular approaches to positioning with CSS: float and absolute positioning. Both approaches have their pros and cons. My teammates and I have developed a new positioning approach that gives us the best of both worlds. After quite a bit of experimenting and testing, it's time to share the technique with the rest of the world and see how we can work together to improve it. I'm calling it "faux absolute positioning" after the faux columns technique that simulates the presence of a column.
my mashable

3 Ways to Harness the Social - 0 views

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    Social media allows for an immediate way to interact and engage with people and companies online. There are the obvious sites that allow for social networking, but social media done right can aspire to be so much more. We thought we'd highlight three notable Twiistup showoffs who are doing big things with social media.
my mashable

5 Ways to Help Twestival Raise $1 Million - 0 views

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    Mashable has partnered with Twestival to promote the world's largest Twitter fundraising drive. Here, New York Twestival co-organizer Paull Young promotes a call to action on the eve of the event.
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