Tag: liquid
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70+ essential resources for creating liquid and elastic layouts
Check out these great online resources on creating liquid/fluid and elastic layouts, including sources for design inspiration, downloadable templates, frameworks, articles and tutorials.
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Me at The CSS Summit online conference
Download the slides from my presentation at The CSS Summit online conference, as well as get links to related tutorials on designing flexible images.
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The liquid web site motherload
Check out Nomensa’s portfolio for great examples of liquid site designs.
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Why browser zoom shouldn’t kill flexible layouts
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.
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Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference 2009
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.
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Creating sliding composite images
Create the appearance of a single image by layering multiple images on top of each other. The pieces can slide around the page as its width is changed, making it a perfect technique for liquid layouts.
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Hiding and revealing portions of images
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.
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Foreground images that scale with the layout
Simple CSS techniques can make the content images inside your liquid or elastic pages scale with the layout.
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Updated flexible design inspiration
I’ve updated my original post on sites to explore for flexible web design inspiration.
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Living, breathing design comps
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.