Mar 11
2013
Not only do we see a massive growth in the number of mobile devices, also the capabilities of these little handsets improve with every new generation. It’s an irreversible trend, commonly known as HiDPI, that causes lots of work not only, but also for web designers. If you have ever had the pleasure of looking at a non-retina app on one of the new MacBooks Pro, you know what I’m talking about. WordPressers Automattic made sure that their blogging software got equipped with retina-capable iconry during the latest update. A few days ago they published Genericons, an icon webfont made up of vectorized symbols…
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Mar 10
2013
360 degree walk-arounds, just as you know them from the major automobile brands: that is what you can expect the fresh jQuery plugin Threesixty.js to deliver. It does this using HTML5 data attributes, thus showing a very simple approach that has you fiddling together a nice 360 in a matter of minutes.
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Mar 09
2013
The new user interface of Windows 8 needs a lot of getting used to. The upside is, the introduction of the so-called tiles, which are intended as the main way of interacting between user and system, brought new possibilities to provide the user with additional information. Tiles are not limited to showing an icon, the way it was before Windows 8, only without the tiles ;-) Inside the tiles notifications can be placed and kept in sync. This is not only possible for apps, but also for websites. Microsoft provides several specialized meta-tags to customize the looks and contents of tiles with links to websites.
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Mar 08
2013
If my memory doesn’t fool me, it was Apple who invented this. Or was it Loren Brichter for his Tweetie client? I really can’t say for sure, but that does not matter anyway. “Pull to refresh” definitely is a functionality that can be seen as a standard nowadays, at least when we look at mobile clients, foremost smartphones and tablets. Jordan Singer and Brandon Jacoby have just recently come up with a similar method of equipping websites with a “Pull to refresh”.
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Mar 07
2013
Rumor has it that there are literally countless aspects influencing the ranking of websites in Google. Besides the ever so valuable content and the still important backlinks to your site, our greatest search engine tends to throw long hard looks at the performance, the loading time of your digital subsidiary. Long loading times get on everybody’s nerves. Google knows that and ranks optimized pages better, a big advantage in terms of SEO. Optimization does not only cost time, but needs a lot og knowledge, too. Google has two solutions in store with which optimizing your websites can become a whole lot easier, easy even. Ever heard of PageSpeed?
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Mar 06
2013
Typography and web design should go hand in hand. But since the possibilities to implement proper typography have only just emerged in the last few years, a lot of developers are stuck in their traditional mindset. Of course everybody will agree that typography is important, but when it comes down to fish or cut bait, often only the bare necessities get done. With Typeplate, there is a chance that this might change, as Typeplate doesn’t exactly transform typography on the web to a no-brainer, but it really simplifies the process.
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