HTML5 Charset

I was wandering which Charset does the HTML5 spec advices for us developers to use in our documents and UTF-8 is the advisable one.

HTML5 Books

In my quest to the ever evolving process of learning HTML5 i have made some research for HTML5 books and i came up with a list of those that looked more promising.

IE8 HTML5 support

The web is an exiting medium for a long time and with HTML5 coming a long way to a stage where is markup elements are supported in most popular browsers.

Recently i have listen to the Big Web Show podcast hosted by Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman, in which they interviewed Jeremy Keith a well known personality of the web design community and author of HTML5 for Web Designers its most recent book.

Great Packaging Design

As part of my daily web dose i research for inspiration to complete design tasks and gather a different abstraction on what design is and on what it can accomplished, outside the web design medium.

One of the most fascinating disciplines of design is packaging design and i always check for those when searching for that special details.

Well today i was doing just that and i decided to grab a few of the packaging designs that i enjoyed and i thought i would share it with you.

Interview with Renato Marques a Portuguese Motion grapher

Me being passionate about design I found Renato Marques work on vimeo and I decided to propose him for an interview for keycss.com readers.
 
Renato Marques is a graphic and motion designer from Portugal, with really good work publicly available from Vimeo and his portfolio can be found at cargocollective.com.

Let’s check the interview and you will understand his approach to this industry.

Jquery xml tutorial

Jquery being a fantastic javascript library it has an easy api to deal with ajax.
Part of ajax is based on xml, so parsing xml is one of the core elements of ajax requests.

The overall idea is that we request xml data via “ $.ajax “ function and the response generated is a DOM(document object model) tree with which we can easily traverse utilizing the power of Jquery.

Page Fade In effect with Jquery

This is a tutorial in which i show how to add a fade in effect to your pages, this gives a nice feel to a website.

The other a client ask me to have every page fading in when they load and i thought that is easy and if you notice google home page also has a smooth fade in effect when the user moves the mouse over the page, on this example the will be fading in as soon as the page loads and the best of all it only takes a few lines of code due to the fact the we will be using a great Javascript Library Jquery

This will be short and easy.

Grid tool to design in the browser

This is a quick post sharing a helpful tool to design in the browser

Web design 101: Wireframes

Wireframes is a method which will help clients and designers to have a better overview of the goals and increase the insight of the project.

Interview with Jorinna Scherle a Motion designer

Something that i have always asked myself is “How motion designers achieve such an amazing quality videos and motion pictures?”.
Well the best way to find the answer was to ask Jorinna, a motion designer which i came across on vimeo.com which has a stunning portfolio full of top notch work.