The article concludes — and I heartily agree — that “whatever price you decide, you need to make sure that you are honest with your client.”
— Arfa Mirza @ designzzz.com
Adapt.js is a JavaScript library (or framework) that helps you design web sites for mobile devices:
For many developers that means using @media queries to selectively target the device screen size and orientation through CSS.
While the @media approach is a good one, it won’t work for every site. That’s why Nathan Smith, creator of the 960 Grid System, has released Adapt.js, a lightweight JavaScript library (894 bytes minified) that allows you to specify a list of stylesheets and the screen sizes for which they should be loaded. Essentially Adapt.js does the work of @media, but will work in any browser, even those that don’t understand @media.
… While using JavaScript to load CSS might seem a bit strange, even if you use @media queries you’re still going to need some kind of polyfill (usually JavaScript-based) to handle those browsers that don’t know what to do with @media rules.
— Scott Gilbertson @ Webmonkey
Five Common Website Blunders Designed to Infuriate Your Customers:
— Dave Johnson @ BNET
We’ve gathered two dozen examples of exemplary clean, simplistic and minimal web designs from the Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland.
— Darren Stevens @ speckyboy.com
Be inspired by styles:
StylesInspiration aims to not only showcase the best and most innovative web design styles currently available, we also aim to give you a visual overview of current web design trends, highlight the latest in web technologies that will ultimately inspire you with your next web design project.
We publish one site a day, seven days a week and 365 days of the year …
— stylesinspiration.com
Alexander Dawson writes:
Every portfolio needs to explain three fundamental job related skills to a client …
- Web related technologies are you tooled in
- Services can (or are you willing) to provide
- Visual examples of your previous work which inherently showcase the true skills you possess
This is much like analysing the abilities of an artist: the technologies represent the tools you can use (like a paintbrush), the services represent your forte (like portraits) and the visuals are the end result.
— Alexander Dawson @ One extra pixel
30 Fresh Examples of Single Page Websites
Single page website example: Baker Street Communications
Superscript:
http://code.google.com/p/doctype/wiki/Sup2CharacterEntity
http://code.google.com/p/doctype/wiki/CharacterEntitiesS
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world’s writing systems.
UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode.
UTF-8 is like UTF-16 and UTF-32, because it can represent every character in the Unicode character set.
Unlike UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 possesses the advantages of being backward-compatible with ASCII.
UTF-8 has become the dominant character encoding for the World-Wide Web, accounting for more than half of all Web pages.
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