Welcome!
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Good design (according to the modernists)
Dieter Rams is a designer known for his minimalist, modern work at Braun during the 60s. He wrote ten principles for good design, a useful list of recommendations for designers, which you can read at vitsoe.
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Principles of site design
The all-knowing, all-powerful interdimensional entity known as google spends a lot of time (and money) studying the web and its users’ habits. That’s why they’ve released a list of dos and don’ts, specifically targeted for mobile site design.
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User interface v. flat design
Sometimes we get seduced by the appeal of flat design and, in so doing, make our websites harder to navigate. Co.design investigates why it’s important to make links stand out.
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More flex resources!
A good complement to the css-tricks flex page mentioned before, the ultimate flexbox cheat sheet separates the different concepts of flex into individual, bite-size snippets. Then there’s a visual guide to css3 flexbox properties, which shows useful visuals (a bit down the page) to explain the different properties.
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Flex
…not to be confused with the song, flex is also a really useful way to make grid layouts. Not limited to columns (rows too!), it’ll make your website/web page look awesome… if you know how to use it. Thankfully, the nice people at CSS-tricks.com made a very informative page to teach us how to use […]
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Bedtime reading
Beautiful high-res scans of a 1961 article about the newly-released typeface Univers, designed by Adrian Frutiger.
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Cleaning up your html and css
Well, eventually, you get to the point where your css file is a long, tangled mess, with a bunch of extra stuff that doesn’t do anything anymore, and some redundant instructions. You could go through it and clean it up yourself, but it’s always a good idea to let robots do it first! First, running […]
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Who uses Opera mini?
When looking at things you can use on your webpage, you might notice that a lot of those things aren’t supported by the Opera mini browser. My first thought, upon seeing this, was “I’ve never heard of anyone using Opera mini in my life!” Well, it turns out that it’s incredibly popular with people who have limited […]
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Well crap.
Last week, I mentioned that there wasn’t really a great way to make a column layout with html and css. Well, a day later, I found this new css3 multi-column property. Shows what I know! Note that it’s not completely supported yet (since it’s so new), but who knows what that will mean in a […]
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More info about flex
We’re not talking too much about flexboxes in class, because they’re not completely supported yet, but if you’re curious and want to try playing with them, you can check out Learn CSS Layout‘s flexbox entry, css-tricks‘ take on the subject, or MDN‘s very in-depth explanation. Looks promising!
Got any book recommendations?