It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Many popular resume designs are making the most of the available page space by laying sections out in a grid shape. Let’s use CSS Grid to create a layout that looks great when printed and at different screen sizes. That way, we can use the resume online and offline, which might come in handy during the new year!… Read article “New Year, New Job? Let’s Make a Grid-Powered Resume!”
I always love seeing people get inspired by print design and trying to port it over to the web. There is a much deeper history of interesting print work to draw from, and still a ton of modern work happening that eclipses most digital design work today. The web is fully capable of bold, interesting designs, yet we see it all-too-rarely.
Just lately, we’ve seen a little surge of interest…… Read article “Print-Inspired Layout on the Web”
The Open Web continues to show up in places we would have never originally expected to find it: our phones, televisions, watches, books, video game consoles, fast food menus, gas pumps, elevators, cars—even our refrigerators.
By not making too many or too strict assumptions about how the web should be used, it remains flexible and adaptable. These qualities have allowed it to outperform closed technologies like Flash and Silverlight.
With the web’s growth comes new features to better accommodate its … Read article “The possibilities of the color-adjust property”
Manuel Matuzovic rediscovers @media print {} styles.
The first thing he shows in this article is a tweet by Aaron Gustafson in which Indiegogo’s website is pretty jacked up for print. It basically looks like a site in which none of the CSS loads at all, which is probably because they wrap all their styles in @media screen {}, or use <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="style.css">. That’s fine if you intend to take a “start from scratch” approach … Read article “I totally forgot about print style sheets”
