Forms are how we interact with websites. We use forms to contact site owners, login to applications, reply to comments and so much more. Forms generally don’t inspire love. We don’t like filling them out or creating them. html5 forms want to help change that.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all in the U.S. today and happy Thursday to everyone else.
If you’ve been reading here for a few years you know that every year at this time I take a week or so vacation and visit family in New York. You might also remember that we typically take a trip into Manhattan and I take some pictures that I share here.
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A few months ago I shared 23 design books I’ve read and enjoyed. In a comment Aman asked if I could do the same for development books. This post would suggest the answer is yes.
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Every time Google makes a significant update to it’s search algorithm people start reporting losses and complaining how the changes are unfair. At the same time others report how that change is driving more traffic to their sites.
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When we combine movements (transforms) of inanimate objects over different timeframes (transitions) we get animation. CSS3 expands on what’s possible with transforms and transitions with the aptly named animations module and I’d like to spend some time today looking through that module.
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Transitions are a way to smooth css changes to an element so they’re more natural. However, they don’t define the changes themselves. Today I want to look at a set of more dynamic changes, namely transforms.
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We all want our designs to be functional and usable. We want visitors to easily complete tasks and find what they want. We’d also like to delight them and make their experience enjoyable and memorable.
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The last few posts I’ve been working through the background and borders module for css3. So far we’ve looked at css backgrounds, simple borders, and rounded corners.
Today I want to walk through the border-image property and close with a couple of miscellaneous properties around the boxes we’ve been talking about.
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Last week I walked through the css background property. The other half of the same W3C spec covers borders and so today I want to begin a walk though of css borders.
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If you are an artist, you can do anything you want. It’s perfectly all right. Design serves a different purpose. If in the process of solving a problem you create a problem, obviously, you didn’t design.
—Massimo Vignelli
