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Quick Tip: Avoid FOUT by Adding a Web Font Preloader
FOUT (a Flash of Unstyled Text) is what you'll often see in that brief moment before a browser has had chance to load and apply web fonts. Typekit and Google...
Ian Yates
21 Aug 2012
Web Design
Skeleton to WordPress: Getting up and Running
During previous parts of this series we've covered a lot. We took a Photoshop layout, built it into an adaptive web page using the Skeleton framework,...
Ian Yates
1 Aug 2012
Web Design
A Beginner’s Guide to Successful Conversion
Converting visitors into valuable users is arguably the most fundamental element of managing a website. We’re going to take a closer look at conversion,...
Ian Yates
18 Jul 2012
Web Design
Building a Responsive Layout With Skeleton: Widescreen
It's time to pick up our Skeleton layout once more, this time to approach layouts larger than the standard 960px width. Skeleton throws a few curve balls our...
Ian Yates
25 Jun 2012
Web Design
Turning a Photo into Lichtenstein Style Pop Art with Illustrator
Roy Lichtenstein's pop art comic book images are as familiar now as they were in the 1960's. They demonstrate a stylized way of presenting a photo of...
Ian Yates
8 Jun 2012
Design & Illustration
Quick Tip: Rounded Corners Done Right
This is going to seem like a no-brainer to many of you, but I see it happening so often I figured it was worth bringing up. We'll call this issue improperly...
Ian Yates
24 May 2012
Web Design
Building a Responsive Layout With Skeleton: Finishing Off
During previous screencasts in this series we've covered a lot of ground, building our responsive (or adaptive) layout with the Skeleton boilerplate. It's...
Ian Yates
9 Apr 2012
Web Design
Building a Responsive Layout With Skeleton: Navigation
Our Skeleton layout contains a number of responsive challenges, not least of which being the primary navigation. In these screencasts we'll prepare things by...
Ian Yates
19 Mar 2012
Web Design
Building a Responsive Layout With Skeleton: Starting Out
Dave Gamache's Skeleton Boilerplate provides the perfect foundations upon which to build responsive websites rapidly and reliably. We're going to use...
Ian Yates
12 Mar 2012
Web Design
Let’s Get Started With SEO!
SEO is one of those subjects which everyone thinks they know something about, but facts and marketing hearsay often get blurred making it pretty confusing...
Ian Yates
12 Mar 2012
Web Design
A Simple, Responsive, Mobile First Navigation
We're going to build a simple, responsive web site navigation. Our solution will help us place emphasis on the content of our page, arguably the top priority...
Ian Yates
22 Feb 2012
Web Design
The State of Web Design Trends: 2012 Annual Edition
As Ferris Bueller famously said "Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it". Let's heed his sage advice...
Ian Yates
12 Jan 2012
Web Design