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Responsive Day Out Audio

Michael Pick — Tue, 28 May 2013 14:33:39 +0000

Get a jump start on taking your Responsive Design practice to the next level, wherever you are at the time.

Quick Overview

Of course you’re all over Responsive Web Design. You’ve read the Code Poet book. You’ve made sure your sites look beautiful on any device you can fling them at. But you want more. You want to know RWD inside out. You want to take it all to the next level. Well, if you went to the UK’s Responsive Day Out you might have learned a thing or two. But even if you didn’t, you’ll be pleased to hear that they’ve gathered a ton of audio recordings of the presentations that took place, and even shared some slides. Grab the mp3s, go for a walk, and have a Responsive Day Out all of your own.

Image based on Vintage Wicker Picnic Basket by Wicker Paradise, CC-BY-2.0.

Jason Santa Maria on Web Typography

Krista — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:38:24 +0000

Comic Sans. Need we say more? Strong typography is one of the most — if not the most important — element of web design. Learning web typography principles will help your sites communicate more effectively and make them look better. What’s more? That’s something you can sell to your clients.

Quick Overview
In this recently released video from An Event Apart — the de facto, traveling web design and development conference series — Jason Santa Maria, designer extraordinaire and typography aficionado, will help you take your type skills to the next level with help on type planning, selecting type for optimum readability and more. Watch and learn.

Header image based on “Typeface” by Guwashi999, CC-BY-2.0

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

Krista — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:46:01 +0000

Web typography need not be one part dark art and one part voodoo, thanks to Richard Rutter. His free, online resource shows you how to make your type sing.

Quick Overview
Rhythm, proportion, stems, ligatures, and loops. Are we talking dance, vegetables, or first aid? Robert Bringhurst’s Elements of Typographic Style is considered to be the designer’s holy volume when it comes to typography. Richard Rutter takes Bringhurst’s principles, and explains how to apply them to the web using good ol’ HTML and CSS, including CSS3.