Grid roundtable
Designers have used grids to compose pages centuries. On the web, though, using grids is a different story. I asked three experts to lend their insight on the issues and challenges in web layout.
# process: critical thinking # process: semantics # published: Treehouse # technique: CSS
The web is not paper on computer screens. Its boundaries are more than the ambiguous edges of browser windows and text columns — factors that change with each viewing. I wrote on devising grids from the inside out.
The Nike AO pack for Hipstamatic was available for one month in 2011. I interviewed sports photographer Chris Hornbecker about the odds of re-releasing his namesake lens.
Designing websites for mobile devices concerns more than layout. As designers build sites that respond to varying screen sizes, opportunities arise to rethink site structures as well. Today we can learn from past assumptions.
Professional photographers use professional cameras. But a few now use their iPhones along with their Canons — and they’re taking advantage of apps’ ability to post-process images on the fly. I talked to a fashion photographer about his recent work.
There are design criteria, and there are technical limits. CSS has plenty of the latter, especially when we make websites that fit mobile and desktop websites. Responsive design of the future looks flexible.
When my system died, I relied on backups to recover my data. Unfortunately those backups weren’t as robust as I thought. For the next few weeks I compared two online backup services: Backblaze and CrashPlan. Here’s what happened.