… borrowing of a style, typically used elsewhere, as the basis for a design. This may be done for purely aesthetic reasons as a method to present information in a certain way, but often it is done to borrow characteristics that are associated with the appropriate source. Establishing such a connection may add credibility to the design or cause it to be viewed in a certain way.
Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris
I hand these links over to other designers and developers time, after time, after time:
- http://24ways.org/2006/compose-to-a-vertical-rhythm
- http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five-simple-steps-to-better-typography-part-4
Essentially they contain all you need to know about web typography. Timeless articles.
Experiments with liquid CSS layouts
We all know liquid is important, right? (Doctors recommend 1.5-3 litres per day :P)
Some of you may have been fooled into thinking liquid and elastic layouts died as soon as browsers deployed native zoom a few years back. I’ll assume you understand – with a fair degree of knowledge – the technical and usability ramifications of implementing fixed-width, liquid, and elastic web layouts. If not, then the following should briefly clear the haze:
Fixed-width layout
Dimensions have a fixed-width pixel (px) measurement.
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So you want to display background images on your website?.. Coincidence – me too! Firstly why not pause for a second and refresh this web page for a while and appreciate the lovely photography :P
Mac OSX, Safari 5.0 screenshot
If you’ve tried background images (unsuccessfully) in the past, no doubt you’ve come unstuck with a few of the same sorts of dilemmas as I have: the first culprit being content vs. image legibility, and the second being each image’s responsiveness to the viewport (will the image tile or stretch?; in which case you have to start thinking about tessellation accuracy and file size etc.).
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