Packery

Packery Packery is a JavaScript layout library that uses a bin-packing algorithm. This is a fancy way of saying “it fills empty gaps.” Packery layouts can be intelligently ordered or organically wild. Elements can be stamped in place, fit in an ideal spot, or dragged around.

Making Sense Of Type Classification (Part 1) | Smashing Magazine

Making Sense Of Type Classification (Part 1) | Smashing Magazine In my previous article on Smashing Magazine (“Understanding the Difference Between Typography and Lettering”), I wrote about how understanding type terminology can help us better appreciate the arts of typography and lettering. This article again deals with terminology, probably more specifically than most designers are…

Fullscreen Layout with Page Transitions | Codrops

Fullscreen Layout with Page Transitions | Codrops A simple responsive layout with some fancy page transitions. The idea is to show four items initially and expand them. Some additional page transitions are added for inner items. VIEW DEMO DOWNLOAD SOURCE

Reveal Content When Needed With an Expanding Footer | Webdesigntuts

Reveal Content When Needed With an Expanding Footer | Webdesigntuts DownloadSOURCE FILES DemoVIEW IT ONLINE During this tutorial we’re going to build an expanding footer; a user interface pattern which allows the user to click on expandable footer regions if they wish to see more content. The end result is comparable to the accordion effect…

UI Design: Simple Ways to Add Mobile Navigation Icons

UI Design: Simple Ways to Add Mobile Navigation Icons More people are surfing the Internet via mobile devices these days, thus a few things on websites need to be adjusted to fit in those smaller screen sizes. This also includes Web Navigation. The icon below, if you may, is the most popular icon to represent “mobile…

Responsive Multi-Level Menu | Codrops

Responsive Multi-Level Menu | Codrops A responsive multi-level menu that shows its submenus in their own context, allowing for a space-saving presentation and usage. VIEW DEMO DOWNLOAD SOURCE Today we want to share an experimental drop-down menu with you. The main idea is to save space for menus that have a lot of content and sub-levels….

Understanding the Z-Layout in Web Design | Webdesigntuts

Understanding the Z-Layout in Web Design | Webdesigntuts The premise of the Z-Layout is actually pretty simple: super-impose the letter Z on the page. Place the items that you want the reader to see first along the top of the Z. The eye will naturally follow the path of the Z, so the goal is…

Understanding the F-Layout in Web Design | Webdesigntuts

Understanding the F-Layout in Web Design | Webdesigntuts The F-Layout relies upon various eyetracking studies for it’s foundational concept. These scientific studies show that web surfers read the screen in an “F” pattern – seeing the top, upper left corner and left sides of the screen most… only occasionally taking glances towards the right side…

Advanced cross-browser flexbox – Dev.Opera

Advanced cross-browser flexbox – Dev.Opera Introduction The CSS Flexible box module level 3 — or Flexbox for short — brings with it a lot of power and some very exciting possibilities for web development, allowing us to put together complex site layouts easily and rapidly, and dispensing with some of the illogical hacks and kludges that we’ve…

The Responsive Web Design War Strategy

The Responsive Web Design War Strategy It seems like everyone is hailing Responsive Web Design (RWD) as the savior for the mobile site development in 2013. That’s reasonable too, since RWD is currently the only sounding approach that deals with any device resolution universally and effectively. It tries to unite this chaotic browser-based universe littered by the…