January’s 12412: Researching LESS & SASS
My first 12412 project was to research and learn about SASS. After the recommendation from several people, I also decided to check into LESS. I’d been hearing a lot about the two techniques and…
Media Queries & IE
Throughout the past month, I’ve been reading up on Responsive Web Design and have been utilising some of the code on my own site, mrqwest.co.uk. It’s been fun learning…
Text Scaling
Those of you who have been following along with my previous posts and have been curious enough to load the examples up on your mobile devices may have spotted that…
Flexible Images
Over the past few months, whilst building client and personal sites, I’ve started adding width:100%; to my image selectors so that any images will resize to fit within its parent.…
Real Quick Media Queries
In my last post, I was looking at setting up a multi-column layout using percentages which made it adapt to different viewports. Twinned with the max-width declaration we set in…
Digibury and impress.js
Last night Paul and I had the opportunity to present 12412 and talk about our aims for the project and how we got it started at Digibury, a new creative…
Multiple Columns in A Responsive Layout
The last two posts here on 12412 have been about creating a responsive layout using relative units such as em‘s. We’ve made a single column layout which responds to the…
A Word On em’s
In my last post, I mentioned that I had set my <body> tag to max-width:960px;. After both Clive Walker & Phil Wareham posted comments regarding the use of em‘s instead…
Responsive Layouts
This is my first post on 12412, and its about responsive & fluid layouts in web design. I’ve not really played around with fluid layouts in the past. I’ve tended…
Tools and technologies
Getting started on a new project is also a great time to try out new tools. Until recently, advanced development software has had more to do with back end technologies…