The new gaming site Polygon made a big splash when it launched late last year, and deservedly so. Not only is the editorial content solid, but its web design is bold and well thought out. This post is a very detailed breakdown of the initial design planning workflow, with initial mood boards, wireframes, and sketches.
Steven Bradley of Vanseo Design examines how exactly auto in the context of CSS offset works. It’s an issue that can easily mess up the location of absolutely positioned elements, especially, as Steven highlights, for drop down menus and popups. Worth a read for almost anyone who works with CSS and page layout regularly.
A very well put together pdf/iBook download for web designers. Great tips here on basic color settings to ensure your Photoshop and Illustrator work stays color consistent, proper alignment among vector objects, good use of layer effects and much more.
Ask almost any front end web developer: once you get deep in a complex, ongoing project with a lot of CSS, unused selectors can be a problem. We’re naturally inclined to keep on bulking up our projects with cool CSS3 transformations and responsive media queries, but it’s decidedly unglamorous to prune what’s no longer needed.
That what makes this little Firefox plugin such a good start. It’s far from comprehensive – you only can really search for unused selectors in the immediate scope of the page you’re on – but it has come in handy.