Archiv für das Jahr: 2012

☞ The Brand New Printed Smashing Book: “The Mobile Book” | Smashing Magazine

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The future is mobile. As more and more people are turning to mobile devices, designers and developers are facing new challenges and opportunities. Web design has to adapt, but before it can do so, we have to do our homework first. We have to understand the new medium, discover the right techniques and tools, and be well-prepared before we start designing for it. The Mobile Book, our brand new printed book, serves exactly this purpose.

Das Smashing Magazine bringt Ende November/Anfang Dezember ein Buch übers mobile Web heraus, sowohl als Druck als auch für Kindle, iPad und anderes E-Reader-Gerät. Wer jetzt schon bestellt, bekommt nochmal 20 % Preisnachlass.

The Brand New Printed Smashing Book: “The Mobile Book” | Smashing Magazine

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☞ watched.li(ve) | knuspermagier.de

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Nach nahezu unendlicher Wartezeit und ewiger Vertröstung von allen, die es gerne benutzen wollten ist es nun soweit. Die alpha-beta-sonstwas-Phase ist vorbei und watched.li kann nun endlich von jedem, der will benutzt werden!

Wenn ich jetzt noch wüsste, welche Folgen ich wovon schon gesehen habe …

watched.li(ve) | knuspermagier.de

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☞ Easy color contrast ratios | Lea Verou

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However, I found that my workflow for checking a contrast ratio with them was far from ideal. I had to convert my CSS colors to hex notation (which I don’t often use myself anymore), check the contrast ratio, then adjust the colors as necessary, covert again etc. In addition, I had to adjust the lightness of the colors with a blindfold, without being able to see the difference my adjustments would make to the contrast ratio. When using semi-transparent colors, it was even worse: Since WCAG only describes an algorithm for opaque colors, all contrast tools only expect that. So, I had to calculate the resulting opaque colors after alpha blending had taken place. After doing that for a few days, I got so fed up that I decided to make my own tool.

Lea Verou hat ein Tool zur Farbkontrast-Kontrolle gebaut, dass ein paar mehr Eingaben als die bislang üblichen entgegen nimmt.

Easy color contrast ratios | Lea Verou

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☞ noxoc.de – Set up a new Drupal site from the command-line with git and drush

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Nils Riedemann:

Today I had to create a new Drupal installation and it has been a while that I had to create Drupal installation from scratch. So I thought about writing up this guide for future reference and find a way to create a complete new Drupal install entirely from the command-line to get as fast as possible to a state where I actually start working.

Hatte das mit Drush schon mal irgendwo aufgeschnappt. (Eins der Dinge die ich für Contao gerne hätte.) Ziemlich coole Sache jedenfalls und hier nochmal kurz und knapp erklärt.

noxoc.de – Set up a new Drupal site from the command-line with git and drush

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