Introduction to Sass for New WordPress Theme Designers As a new WordPress theme designer, you would quickly learn the challenges of maintaining long CSS files while keeping them organized, scalable, and readable. You will also learn that many designers and front-end developers recommend using a CSS preprocessor language like Sass or LESS. But what are these things? What is Sass? The CSS that we use was designed to be an easy to use stylesheet language. It is very much like PHP which is a preprocessor language that executes a script on the server and generates an HTML output. Since version 3.8, WordPress admin area styles were ported to utilize Sass for development. Getting Started With Sass for WordPress Theme Development Most theme designers use local development environment to work on their themes before deploying it to a staging environment or a live server. First thing you need to do is to install Sass. For the sake of this article, you will need to create a blank theme. Right click on your Sass file and select Set Output Path option.
Skeleton: Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development Grok - A Smashing Web Framework — Grok Less Framework 4 I called Less Framework "a CSS grid system for designing adaptive websites". It was basically a fixed-width grid that adapted to a couple of then popular screen widths by shedding some of its columns. It also had matching typographic presets to go with it, built with a modular scale based on the golden ratio. Contrary to how most CSS frameworks work, Less Framework simply provided a set of code comments and visual templates, instead of having predefined classes to control the layout with. /* Default Layout: 992px. Less Framework was popular in the early days of responsive design. Eventually, I moved on from fixed-width grid systems and worked on a fully fluid-width one, in the form of Golden Grid System. Less Framework's popularity was helped by the following contributions and the lovely people behind them (dead links crossed off):
MontageJS - HTML5 framework Avantages et inconvénients du Responsive Web Design (RWD) Crème Graphique, création sites Web et outils communication, Poitiers Si le RWD présente certains avantages au premier abord, la mise en place d’un projet n’est pourtant pas aussi simple et évidente qu’il n’y parait. Il implique une restructuration de la phase de développement. Pour Marcotte, il est évident que l’on ne peut pas faire du RWD dans l’environnement de production web actuel, tel qu’on le constate généralement en agence. En effet, les phases de conception et de développement en cascade ne sont pas possibles pour un projet RWD efficace et rentable. Pour Ethan Marcotte, le RWD implique donc une restructuration de la phase de développement. Les Points forts du RWD Par rapport aux solutions actuelles, le RWD présente certains avantages au premier abord, que ce soit par rapport à un site web fixe et à un site web dédié au mobile, ou plus simplement à un site web fixe seul. Les points forts du RWD selon l’utilisateur Penchons nous maintenant sur l’utilisateur. Les inconvénients identifiés
User Interface UI Kit | Gumby Framework Introduction Gumby v2 is here. You haven't a moment to waste! So many new, amazing features await you! But first a quick crash course on the latest and greatest Gumby Framework. Some things you will need with you on this journey are: A code editor of your choice (we recommend Sublime Text 2+)A decent knowledge of HTML/CSSA willingness to learnGoogle or comparable search engine. Some optional things that we recommend include: A web server (Apache or similar) Some basic knowledge of programming (variables, functions)General knowledge of the terminal Things that are NOT required are: Any specific web framework such as Rails, Codeigniter, etc. Browser Compatibility Gumby is developed following the latest standards and specs. ChromeFirefoxOperaInternet Explorer 8 – 10 We also support some of our elderly community of browsers down to IE 8. Options There are many ways you can work with Gumby. GUIs There are several GUIs out there that take the fear/mystery/fun out of using the terminal. Vanilla CSS Mac
Responsive design : définition, fonctionnement, ressources et tutoriels Si vous vous intéressez de près ou de loin au webdesign ou à l’intégration, vous n’avez pas pu échapper au dernier terme à la mode : le “responsive web design”. Cette avancée technologique est également une nouvelle philosophie de création de site. Voici un article pour définir ce qu’est le “responsive web design” et expliquer quels en sont les points-clés (puis plein de liens, de tutoriels et de ressources super cools aussi !). Le “responsive web design” est né suite à un besoin grandissant. De nos jours, il n’y a pas un client qui demande un site Internet sans demander une version mobile de celui-ci. Seulement en quelques années le nombre d’appareils et de résolutions servant à consulter des sites web a tout simplement explosé : ordinateurs, smartphones, tablettes, web TV, grille-pain, format portrait, paysage, etc… Entre 2005 et 2008 on a identifié pas moins de 400 résolutions d’écran différentes pour tous les appareils vendus. Définition du responsive web design La mise en page La typo
11 Reasons why responsive web design isn't that cool! Since Ethan Marcotte published his seminal article on Responsive Web Design there’s been an explosion of articles related to this topic. The guy truly made a good work also publishing a book about it , deepening on what many consider, since then, should be a standard for web design. If you have no idea of what this thing is, this Responsive Web Design thing, but simultaneously you’ve been thinking and working on a way for your web projects to be viewable in multiple devices, then you are instinctively working on responsive web design. Here’s a little insight: The main objective of responsive web design is the inherent flexibility a website can acquire through the application of fluid grids, images and CSS Media Queries to adapt the content and design of the website to any device, even if it is a desktop computer, a laptop, an iPad or a Smartphone. You do not have to create a mobile version of your website; you do not have to create an application for every popular device on earth. 1.
Les 10 commandements du web adaptatif En 320px ton webdesign, tu commenceras Partir de la plus petite taille d’écran ciblée, pour ensuite enrichir les possibles du site ; c’est s’assurer d’aller à l’essentiel sur le mobile. Ton contenu rédactionnel, tu soigneras Parce que le mobinaute est exigeant, travailler le texte autant que l’image est primordial. Capter l’attention d’un mobinaute commence par adapter un message à son contexte d’usage. Les sites à hauteur fixe, tu oublieras La page à taille fixe est morte ! Les Media Queries CSS3, tu maîtriseras Le responsive design vient tirer sa puissance des nouveaux standards du web : à chaque média son affichage optimisé grâce à CSS3. Les grilles, tu utiliseras Parce que les affichages sont fonction du terminal utilisé, les grilles de mise en page vous aideront à organiser vos interfaces. Tes images d’ambiance, tu travailleras Selon la taille et résolution de l’écran (mobile, tablette, PC ou TV connectée) le fond d’une page est vu partiellement ou en entier, alors soignez-le !
Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It Advertisement Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we’ll likely need to design for a number of additional inventions. When will the madness stop? It won’t, of course. In the field of Web design and development, we’re quickly getting to the point of being unable to keep up with the endless new resolutions and devices. Responsive Web design is the approach that suggests that design and development should respond to the user’s behavior and environment based on screen size, platform and orientation. The Concept Of Responsive Web Design Ethan Marcotte1 wrote an introductory article about the approach, “Responsive Web Design992,” for A List Apart. Transplant this discipline onto Web design, and we have a similar yet whole new idea. Adjusting Screen Resolution