Web forms are often a tedious experience. There’s a lot to be said for keeping questions to a minimum. Do I really need to enter my name across three fields, can’t you just call me “Dave”? To save space and reduce visual noise it’s become quite common to repurpose HTML placeholders. But as we should all know: Placeholder […]
With a high-profile portfolio of websites like Google Apps dropping support for IE9 the question of browser support inevitably resurfaces. Many will see this news as justification for their own abandonment of a legacy browser. As I’ve said time and time again, external decisions and aggregated statistics are irrelevant if you have specific numbers for a domain. If […]
I’ve just read Front-end Style Guides written by Anna Debenham, published by Five Simple Steps. As a thorough overview of all that the title suggests the book sets a practical mindset for utilising style guides with many examples (and at £2.40; an absolute steal). Style guides are critical to how I make websites. My design & build process naturally results in a front-end […]
The follow demo is a quick experiment! I’m not sharing code because it’s horrible and I don’t want emails asking if I’ve got it working on a Blackberry. Mobile web browsers, unless otherwise informed, will assume a website has been designed for larger screens. They’ll render on a large canvas and zoom out. Responsive websites use […]
I’m building a client’s website design that is more aware of the viewport than usual. Page headers — think large typography with a background image — cover 100% of the initial view. So too does the navigation; five items presented overlaying the entire screen. First but not final When a page loads the first render — at whatever size the […]
The new King’s Transfer website has gone live. I worked on design and front-end development while Peter Mitchell took care of all things back-end. This is my third in-depth responsive design case study and my first as a freelancer. I feel it’s my best work to-date and that’s due to a great client and a real focus on the design process. […]
Implementing off-canvas navigation requires a fair amount of effort in the realms of front-end performance and “viewport management” but the general principles are simple. Once you’ve cracked them you can create some brilliant responsive and interactive interfaces. Viewport set-up I’ve decided to write a mostly high-level introduction here without getting bogged down in code. My Smashing Magazine article sets a good foundation […]
