Posts Tagged: elastic

70+ essential resources for creating liquid and elastic layouts

Posted January 25th, 2010 by Zoe Gillenwater & filed under Articles.

Check out these great online resources on creating liquid/fluid and elastic layouts, including sources for design inspiration, downloadable templates, frameworks, articles and tutorials.

Me at The CSS Summit online conference

Posted July 18th, 2009 by Zoe Gillenwater & filed under Announcements.

Download the slides from my presentation at The CSS Summit online conference, as well as get links to related tutorials on designing flexible images.

Why browser zoom shouldn’t kill flexible layouts

Posted June 16th, 2009 by Zoe Gillenwater & filed under Articles.

All the major browsers now have zoom functions built in, which may make it seem like there’s no longer any need for liquid or elastic layouts. Not so.

Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference 2009

Posted April 28th, 2009 by Zoe Gillenwater & filed under Announcements.

Download the slides from my presentation at Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference 2009, as well as get links to related tutorials on designing flexible images.

Hiding and revealing portions of images

Posted April 25th, 2009 by Zoe Gillenwater & filed under Tutorials.

It’s possible to dynamically “crop” both background and foreground images as the layout changes in width, solving the problem of overflowing fixed-width images in a flexible page.

Foreground images that scale with the layout

Posted April 24th, 2009 by Zoe Gillenwater & filed under Tutorials.

Simple CSS techniques can make the content images inside your liquid or elastic pages scale with the layout.

Updated flexible design inspiration

Posted April 22nd, 2009 by Zoe Gillenwater & filed under Announcements, Inspiration.

I’ve updated my original post on sites to explore for flexible web design inspiration.

Living, breathing design comps

Posted October 1st, 2008 by Zoe Gillenwater & filed under Articles.

Presenting static image comps to clients can be especially problematic if you create flexible layouts. Try building an (X)HTML/CSS version of the design to show to your client instead in order to make designing and creating flexible layouts easier.

Revised presentation slides available

Posted September 25th, 2008 by Zoe Gillenwater & filed under Announcements.

Download the slides from my presentation Designing CSS Layouts for the Flexible Web at the National Association of Government Webmasters 2008 Annual Conference.

Voices That Matter slides available

Posted June 17th, 2008 by Zoe Gillenwater & filed under Announcements.

Download the slides from my presentation Designing CSS Layouts for the Flexible Web at the Voices That Matter Web Design Conference.

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