As HTML5 and CSS3 gets written, browser vendors are already incorporating their new features allowing for greater design and functionality. However, some major browsers haven’t. How should developers build for a constantly moving target? This panel discusses dealing with those older browsers and embracing new Web design technologies with practical HTML5 and CSS3 demonstrations.
Tagged with “sxsw2010”
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CSS3 Design with HTML5
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CSS and Fonts: Fluid Web Typography
For almost 15 years, Web designers have had a list of 10 "Core Web fonts" to choose from. Many ask, "Why can’t I just download a font file from my Web server the same way I can an image?" Well, actually, you can. The verbiage for font linking is a little different than images, but the syntax for Webfont linking has been around for over 10 years as a part of the CSS standard. Web typography expert Jason Cranford Teague shows you how to apply the principles of fluid typography, to choose, find and use Webfonts and create your unique typographic voice. Come and find out why 2010 is going to be the year of Web typography.
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Interactive Podcasts: Selling Your Milk When the Cow is Free
Using open source is one thing, but can your idea succeed if you give your own work away? Scrappy entrepreneurs will discuss that question, share their own experiences with open source business models, and offer advice to others considering open source licenses.
The facilitator, Jeff Eaton, organized this talk to "educate others about OSS opportunities and pitfalls", so the Open Atrium angle is only a small part of a much larger and diverse conversation. The panel also includes:
Evan Prodromou, the founder Status.net, an open source microblogging service. Tiffany Farriss from Palantir.net, a digital design and web shop that does a lot of work with Drupal. Brad Fitzpatrick, who worked for LiveJournal and is now at Google working on standards like OpenID. From http://sxsw.com/node/4762
Tagged with drupal opensource openatrium sxsw2010
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Episode 0.1.8 - NoSQL Smackdown!
Nerds talk big data at SXSW 2010.
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Simple Steps to Great Web Design with Matthew Smith
Creating beautiful web design is largely a matter of mastering a handful of simple techniques. The best designs employ systems of color, contrast, typography, and white space to achieve hierarchy, balance, and rhythm. The rest is just ingenuity and creativity. Matthew will review dozens of great and nearly great sites, explaining…
Slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/squaredeye/simple-steps-to-great-web-design
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Get Stoked on Web Typography by Samantha Warren
Typography can make or break a design, but there are big differences between what makes jaw-dropping type offline from what makes great type online? In this presentation, Samantha will evaluate interesting offline lettering and discuss how you can translate those principles and leverage CSS3, @font-face, and new font-as-service web apps to create engaging online typographic experiences.