Case Study: Page Flip Effect from 20thingsilearned.com Introduction In 2010, F-i.com and the Google Chrome team collaborated on an HTML5-based educational web app called 20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web (www.20thingsilearned.com). One of the key ideas behind this project was that it would best be presented in the context of a book. Since the contents of the book is very much about open web technologies we felt it was important to stay true to that by making the container itself an example of what these technologies allow us to accomplish today. We decided that the best way to achieve the feeling of a real world book is to simulate the good parts of the analogue reading experience while still leveraging the benefits of the digital realm in areas such as navigation. Getting Started This tutorial will take you through the process of creating your own page flip effect using the canvas element and plenty of JavaScript. Before we get started it's a good idea to check out the demo so that you know what we're aiming to build. Markup Logic
Musings on the Relationship Between Grids and Guides Though it has been around for years in print design, the concept of working on the grid has become really popular in web design in recent times, especially with the success and availability of CSS frameworks like the 960 Grid System. Many tutorials and articles that I have seen make explicit use if grids, even going so far as to specifically recommend the use of one particular system. Musings on the Relationship Between Grids and Guides That’s great. Though certainly not a necessity, using a grid in web design is a great way to establish a strong, underlying structure that provides consistent, visual unity between the elements in a design. Moreover, the several different CSS grid frameworks that exist out there provide an excellent means of implementing a grid into a site, and can help with process of rapid prototyping. Personally, I’ve been used the 960 Grid System in several designs, and will be using some form of grid in the upcoming redesign of this very blog. Grids Guides The Half Grid
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WebSockets e HTML5: il tutorial introduttivo Sin dall'origine del web uno dei suoi limiti principali (ma forse anche una delle caratteristiche che l'hanno resa semplice e dunque di successo) è l'architettura "stretta" client-server, ovvero una modalità di comunicazione in cui c'è un client ben definito che fa le "domande" e un server (web, pensiamo ad Apache) che fornisce le "risposte" (pagine web, immagini, etc.) solo quand interrogato Se questa struttura è perfetta per un web "statico" fatto di pagine collegate fra loro in cui la richiesta di nuovo contenuto è stimolata dal click su un link da parte dell'utente del browser, questa stessa architettura non è per nulla ideale per applicazioni complesse e ricche di comunicazioni bidirezionali (pensiamo ad un gioco multiplayer via web) o dove le informazioni potrebbero dover arrivare quando sono disponibili e non quando l'utente "fa" qualcosa (ad esempio in applicazioni finanziarie o in real-time) WebSockets Ma vediamo come funziona il tutto. Avrete notato il protocollo "
CSS3 Image Styles When applying CSS3 inset box-shadow or border-radius directly to the image element, the browser doesn't render the CSS style perfectly. However, if the image is applied as background-image, you can add any style to it and have it rendered properly. Darcy Clarke and I put a quick tutorial together on how to use jQuery to make perfect rounded corner images dynamically. View Demo Image Styles Problem (see demo) Take a look at the demo and note that there is border-radius and inset box-shadow applied in the first row of images. Workaround To get the border-radius and inset box-shadow working, the workaround is to apply the actual image as background-image. Dynamic Way To make it dynamic, you can use to jQuery to wrap the background image dynamically for every image element. Output The above code will output the following HTML code: Circle Image (see demo) Now that the image is applied as a background image, you can pretty much add any style to it. Card Style (see demo) Embossed Style (see demo)
Tutorial: Transforma tu web en Responsive Design Miércoles, 30 d enero d 2013. Internet no para de evolucionar en todos los sentidos, incluso en su tecnología. Hay cosas que se van poniendo de moda y luego, poco a poco, se van dejando de lado, otras en cambio llegan con suficiente fuerza como para que todos sepamos que marcan el "camino a seguir". El "Responsive Design" o en español "Diseño adaptativo", es una de estas últimas. Pero el Responsive Design no son simples añadidos a una web, es una filosofía del desarrollo del front de la misma totalmetne distinta y que abarca tal cantidad de detalles que resulta impracticable para muchas empresas y realmente complejo para otras. Por qué es complejo desarrollar webs en responsive design Básicamente por dos motivos: Porque es una tecnología verde, donde las distintas opciones para su aplicación uso aun no están lo suficientemente desarrolladas como para saber "cual es la mejor". En definitiva, necesitamos más tiempo para que la mayoría puedan permitirse trabajar con diseños adaptativos. 1.
CSS: Elastic Videos While I was coding the Elemin Theme (a responsive WordPress theme that I recently designed), one of the challenges that I faced was to make the embedded videos elastic. Using the max-width:100% and height:auto trick works with native HTML5 video tag, but it doesn't work with embed code using iframe or object tag. After hours of experimenting and Googling, I finally found a trick on how to achieve this. View Demo Elastic Videos Elastic HTML5 Videos (demo) With HTML5 video element, you can easily make it elastic by using the max-width:100% trick (see elastic HTML5 video demo). Elastic Object & Iframe Embedded Videos (demo) The trick is very simple. How to Create Fixed Width & Elastic To restrict the width of the video, an additional <div> wrapper is required. Compatibility This trick works on all browsers (tested on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, iPhone and iPad). Credits This trick was found on tjkdesign.com.
Maximize the Use of Hover Usually, we create hover effects by changing: font color, font styles, border styles, background, and etc. But there are a lot more that we can do with hover. We can use hover to beautify design, minimize clutter, and display additional information. In this article, I'm going to provide various examples of websites that maximize the use of hover. Also, I will provide several quick tutorials on how to create different mouse hover effects. 1. I use hover to beautify the layout of IconDock. 2. QBN makes its layout look cleaner by hiding the extra buttons on default. Gucci puts focus on their product images by hiding the variations. 3. Coda combines CSS and Javascript to create a beautiful tooltip. On Best Web Gallery, I use jQuery to display a larger image of the screencap. Tutorials Image Hover (see demo) The following CSS tutorial imitates the hover effect as seen on the Gucci and QBN site. Animated Hover (see demo) jQuery Tooltip
Introducción a @media de CSS3 La semana pasada vimos las nuevas pseudo clases de CSS nivel 3 o más comúnmente conocido como CSS3 y como utilizarlas. Hoy, vamos a hacer una introducción a las reglas @media de CSS3 y a la nueva forma de utilizarlas para mejorar la experiencia de usuario de las personas que entran a nuestros sitios web independientemente del dispositivo que estén utilizando para acceder a los mismos. La regla @media nos permite especificar que cierto conjunto de reglas CSS solo deben aplicarse a cierto tipo de dispositivo. Así las definiciones dentro del bloque de la regla @media screen { ... } solo serían interpretadas por dispositivos conectados a monitores de ordenador y los de la regla @media projection { ... } solo se aplicaría a proyectores. CSS3 añade importantes y nuevas capacidades que nos permiten definir conjuntos de estilos dependiendo de propiedades comunes de los dispositivos que acceden a nuestros sitios. Media queries Usando media queries para especificar estilos La regla @media Conclusión
HTML5, SEO e personal branding: tutorial su authorship markup Nella nostra attività di lettura sul web - siano articoli, post, commenti o tutorial - capita spesso di imbatterci in un autore che ci piace particolarmente e che vorremmo "seguire" in maniera più assidua. Se questo può essere fatto quando, ad esempio, questo autore ha un profilo Twitter sarebbe utile che anche i motori di ricerca ci aiutassero in questa nostra passione, indicandoci ad esempio nei risultati gli altri articoli (magari sullo stesso tema, cioè sulla stessa keyword che stiamo ricercando) scritti da questa persona. Google sta pensando proprio ad un meccanismo del genere, utilizzando gli strumenti e gli standard di semantic web che tecnologie come HTML5 mettono a disposizione. Authorship markup: che cosa è e come si usa Per quanto potente questa tecnica sia l'utilizzo è davvero semplice: l'idea di base è indicare nella pagina dell'articolo un link con attributo "rel" (relazione) con valore "author" e che punta alla pagina dell'autore (su quel sito). Un esempio concreto rel="me"
CSS3 Transitions And Transforms From Scratch There are some amazing examples of CSS transforms and transitions, and whilst you may be blown away by them, there's a good chance that you're also overwhelmed and a bit intimidated! This tutorial will take you back to the very basics. We're going to create some fundamental CSS3 transitional movements, step by step. A Quick Note on Browser Support: Support across browsers is already pretty reasonable. The Axes and Grid To help understand the movement easily we'll be working on an axis grid (which you'll probably recognize from basic math). The only (crucial) difference is that on our axis the -y value is above the x axis, whilst it would ordinarily be below it. Note: I'm going to assume that you're already familiar with HTML and CSS file structure. 1: Horizontal Movement The first movement we'll demonstrate is "horizontal"; we'll animate the object to move to the right and to the left. Moving to the Right Open your favorite Text Editor and enter the following html markup, then save the file.
Responsive Design para novatos. Tutorial básico. Responsive Design en ## Desde la llegada de HTML5 y CSS3, el Responsive Design o “Diseño Sensible” es una nueva técnica que se está empezando a utilizar cada vez más. Consiste básicamente en adaptar los diseños de las páginas web en función del tamaño de la ventana del navegador, cambiando según esta aumenta o disminuye y sin necesidad de disponer varias versiones de CSS o HTML. Podéis ver un pequeño ejemplo si redimensionáis el blog o si lo véis en un iPad; o podéis flipar si comprobáis hasta que punto se puede utilizar esta técnica entrando a Smashing Magazine o en mi página personal. El ejemplo que os voy a proponer es muy simple y solo cuenta con 3 pasos: Añadir un meta tag al header, añadir compatibilidad con navegadores antiguos y realizar modificaciones en el CSS. 1. En primer lugar debemos añadir el siguiente código entre las etiquetas “<head>” de nuestra página. 2. [html]<! 3. El funcionamiento es el mismo que si utilizásemos un condicional.
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