With the launch of CreativeMarket.com, COLOURlovers put together this fascinating infographic “to bring the typographic history, usage & character to life”.
Visit link: http://www.colourlovers.com/web/blog/2012/02/16/bold-justified-the-huge-world-of-typography-infographic
Page Scroller is a powerful JavaScript based smooth-scrolling navigation plugin that utilizes the robust jQuery library. Created entirely with ease of use in mind, it will work on any website. Don’t believe me? Check it out…
Visit link: http://pagescroller.com/
The element has been in and out of the HTML5 spec about as many times as an appendage’s in the dance, Hokey cokey. Recently, the element has had some great semantic improvements which Bruce Lawson kindly explains in this article.
Visit link: http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2012/best-of-time/
HTML5 Doctor explains the WebVTT (Web Video Text Tracks) specification – allowing us to add subtitles to our HTML5 videos.
Whilst no browsers currently support it, this is definitely something to keep an eye on and there are JavaScript options available.
Visit link: http://html5doctor.com/video-subtitling-and-webvtt/
Good UX is characterized by providing the user with constant feedback as they step through your interface. It means thinking about and providing fallbacks and error resolutions in even the rarest of scenarios. It’s about omitting clutter to make way for the necessary, and using the most fundamental of design tools to influence a user’s path. It means making no assumptions, designing right down to the most distinct details and going one step further every single time. In many cases, good UX is completely subliminal.
Great article from 2011′s 24 Ways on how we can improve upon some of the finer details of our user interface.
Visit link: http://24ways.org/2011/subliminal-user-experience
Bruce Lawson discusses the sensitive subject of semantics and the benefits that it has for the web. If you read nothing else other than the final section ‘Do Semantics Matter Anyway?’, this makes for a very interesting read.
Visit link: http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/18/html5-semantics/
As Responsive Web Design takes up more traction, Mark Boulton looks at a key issue with websites which will mostly benefit from this design approach; advertising.
How do you cater for and therefore sell ad slots at different design breakpoints to sales teams? Mark has an interesting idea on how to this can be achieved.
Visit link: http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/responsive-advertising
SEO can often be an after thought of a project. However there are some techniques that can be used during the development of the website which can have its benefits, which Jeff Orloff discusses in this article.
Visit link: http://www.developerdrive.com/2011/09/seo-techniques-web-developers-need-to-learn-part-1/
ID’s and classes build up the core foundations of our authoring skills, therefore it is important to get our naming conventions right. In this post Matt Wilcox explains the importance of naming our ID’s and classes properly, keeping semantics in mind above styling.
Visit link: http://mattwilcox.net/archive/entry/id/1058/