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12:00 am - Sat, December 24, 2011
24 Ways Crafting the Front-end
Much has been spoken and written recently about the virtues of craftsmanship in the context of web design and development. It seems that we as fabricators of the web are finally tiring of seeking out ...
12:00 am - Fri, December 23, 2011
24 Ways Theres No Formula for Great Designs
Before he combined them with fluid images and CSS3 media queries to coin responsive design, Ethan Marcotte described fluid grids — one of the most enjoyable parts of responsive design. Enjoyable...
12:00 am - Thu, December 22, 2011
24 Ways From Side Project to Not So Side Project
In the last article I wrote for 24 ways, back in 2009, I enthused about the benefits of having a pet project, suggesting that we should all have at least one so that we could collaborate with our frie...
12:00 am - Wed, December 21, 2011
24 Ways Taming Complexity
I’m going to step into my UX trousers for this one. I wouldn’t usually wear them in public, but it’s Christmas, so there’s nothing wrong with looking silly.Anyway, to business....
12:00 am - Tue, December 20, 2011
24 Ways Raising the Bar on Mobile
One of the primary challenges of designing for mobile devices is that screen real estate is often in limited supply. Through the advocacy of Luke W and others, weve drawn comfort from the idea that th...
12:00 am - Mon, December 19, 2011
24 Ways Going Both Ways
It’s that time of the year again: Santa is getting ready to travel the world. Up until now, girls and boys from all over have sent in letters asking for what they want. I hope that Santa and his...
12:00 am - Sun, December 18, 2011
24 Ways Getting the Most Out of Google Analytics
Something a bit different for today’s 24 ways article. For starters, Im not a designer or a developer. Im an evil man who sells things to people on the internet. Second, this article will likely...
12:00 am - Sat, December 17, 2011
24 Ways Designing for Perfection
Hello, 24 ways readers. I hope you’re having a nice run up to Christmas. This holiday season I thought I’d share a few things with you that have been particularly meaningful in my work ove...
12:00 am - Fri, December 16, 2011
24 Ways CSS3 Patterns, Explained
Many of you have probably seen my CSS3 patterns gallery. It became very popular throughout the year and it showed many web developers how powerful CSS3 gradients really are. But how many really unders...
12:00 am - Thu, December 15, 2011
24 Ways Extracting the Content
As we throw away our canvas in approaches and yearn for a content-out process, there remains a pain point: the Content. It is spoken of in the hushed tones usually reserved for Lord Voldemort. The-thi...
12:00 am - Wed, December 14, 2011
24 Ways Design the Invisible to Tell Better Stories on the Web
For design to be meaningful we need to tell stories. We need to design the invisible, the cues, the messages and the extra detail hidden beneath the aesthetics. Its all about the story.From verbal exc...
12:00 am - Tue, December 13, 2011
24 Ways Your jQuery: Now With 67% Less Suck
Fun fact: more websites are now using jQuery than Flash.jQuery is an amazing tool that’s made JavaScript accessible to developers and designers of all levels of experience. However, as Spiderman...
12:00 am - Mon, December 12, 2011
24 Ways Displaying Icons with Fonts and Data- Attributes
Traditionally, bitmap formats such as PNG have been the standard way of delivering iconography on websites. Theyre quick and easy, and it also ensures theyre as pixel crisp as possible. Bitmaps have t...
12:00 am - Sun, December 11, 2011
24 Ways Nine Things I've Learned
I’ve been a professional graphic designer for fourteen years and for just under four of those a professional web designer. Like most designers I’ve learned a lot in my time, both from a de...
12:00 am - Sat, December 10, 2011
24 Ways Context First: Web Strategy in Four Handy Ws
Many, many years ago, before web design became my proper job, I trained and worked as a journalist. I studied publishing in London and spent three fun years learning how to take a few little nuggets o...
12:00 am - Fri, December 9, 2011
24 Ways Composing the New Canon: Music, Harmony, Proportion
Ohne Musik wre das Leben ein IrrtumFriedrich NIETZSCHE, Gtzen-Dmmerung, Sprche und Pfeile 33, 1889Somehow, music is hardcoded in human beings. It is something we understand and respond to without prio...
12:00 am - Thu, December 8, 2011
24 Ways Adaptive Images for Responsive Designs Again
When I was asked to write an article for 24 ways I jumped at the chance, as I’d been wanting to write about some fun hacks for responsive images and related parsing behaviours. My heart sank a l...
12:00 am - Wed, December 7, 2011
24 Ways Front-end Style Guides
We all know that feeling: some time after we launch a site, new designers and developers come in and make adjustments. They add styles that don’t fit with the content, use typefaces that make us...
12:00 am - Tue, December 6, 2011
24 Ways Defending the Perimeter Against Web Widgets
On July 14, 1789, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille, igniting a revolution that toppled the French monarchy. On July 14 of this year, there was a less dramatic (though more tweeted) takedown: The...
12:00 am - Mon, December 5, 2011
24 Ways Collaborative Development for a Responsively Designed Web
In responsive web design we’ve found a technique that allows us to design for the web as a medium in its own right: one that presents a fluid, adaptable and ever changing canvas.Until this point...
12:00 am - Sun, December 4, 2011
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 firs...
12:00 am - Sat, December 3, 2011
24 Ways Subliminal User Experience
The term ‘user experience’ is often used vaguely to quantify common elements of the interaction design process: wireframing, sitemapping and so on. UX undoubtedly involves all of these pri...
12:00 am - Fri, December 2, 2011
24 Ways Conditional Loading for Responsive Designs
On the eighteenth day of last year’s 24 ways, Paul Hammond wrote a great article called Speed Up Your Site with Delayed Content. He outlined a technique for loading some content — like p...
01:05 am - Thu, December 1, 2011
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12:00 am - Thu, December 1, 2011
24 Ways Creating Custom Font Stacks with Unicode-Range
Any web designer or front-end developer worth their salt will be familiar with the CSS @font-face rule used for embedding fonts in a web page. We’ve all used it — either directly in our co...