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News Article Parallax

Out of all the Web design fads to emerge since the glossy days when Web 2.0 was cool, scrolling parallax websites have emerged as a surprisingly powerful and useful trend. This attention-grabbing technique certainly isn’t new, but is fast becoming a popular tool for generating interest.

If you’re interested in creating a site like Living Word, Jan Ploch or Nike Better World, here’s an impressive plugin that speeds up the entire process:

➤ Parallax websites with Scrollorama

News Article Fire OS

What’s better than a desktop operating system built atop the Web? A mobile Web operating system, where Web apps finally get top billing.

Since first being announced back in July 2011, Mozilla has slowly but steadily revealed new details of its upcoming mobile operating system, Firefox OS (formerly Boot to Gecko). Now, thanks to a simple Firefox add-on, anyone can play with the new phone OS via a simulator in a matter of minutes (bandwidth permitting). Previously, users had to set up B2G Desktop manually, which was a bit more difficult. It’s noteworthy that this add-on still relies on B2G Desktop, but simplifies the installation and update process.

➤ Learn more here and here.

News Article Jquery Plugins

In order to keep this list from going on endlessly, we’ve consolidated some of our favorite jQuery plugins together, along with others that have been on our radar:

Placekitten: This plugin lets you turn literally any HTML element into a kitten
Garlic.js: Stores form values locally, so your users never lose any precious data
Responsive-content: This plugin lets you easily serve different HTML to different devices
SlabText: Create big, bold, responsive headlines for your site with this jQuery plugin
jQuery Transit: Super-Smooth CSS3 Transformations & Transitions
Lettering.js: Hack your typography
TypeButter: This plugin makes it easy for anyone to kern their Web typography
jSVG, by Benny Schudel, is a new attempt to bring simple SVG Asset Management into modern browsers
Animated text and icon menu, by Codrops, is a fun tutorial and animation tool to use with restraint (tip: Manna Design)
5 Awesome Free jQuery Plugins for Web Designers

News Article Adobe Edge

It’s no secret that Adobe has long played a highly important role in Web design, and now it seems rather fitting that its offering has actually expanded to the Web with Creative Cloud. With Adobe’s surprising acquisition of Behance, we have no doubt that Creative Cloud will impact the way creatives share their work online.

Adobe’s Edge Family, which premiered in September, differs greatly from Adobe’s Creative Suite, as it focuses entirely on the Web. The current Edge offerings are still far from perfect, but the products signify how important Adobe believes the future of Web design is, even if that future doesn’t include Flash.

News Article HTML5

HTML5 will hopefully become a default standard within the next one to three years, but for now, we’re getting our hands dirty ahead of time. If you have been following this space, you’re bound to already know a few of the most press-worthy HTML elements out there, namely <canvas>, which can be used for complex animations and graphics, <video>, which works similarly to the <img> tag, allowing for natively embedded video without 3rd party plugins like Flash, and <audio>, which works just like <video>.

➤ HTML5′s new tags

News Article Kern.js

Created by Brendan Stromberger and integrated with the well-loved Lettering.js plugin, Kern.js is a genius bookmarklet that puts designers back in control of their site’s typography.

If you’ve every felt the need to adjust your site’s kerning, line-height or letter placement, you’re going to want to check this bookmarklet out.

➤ Kern.js

News Article Moar

Dive into the fundamentals of Web design with this clear and concise guide
COLOURlovers launches Creative Market, a stock design marketplace with heart
Wikipedia launches a redesigned mobile site, emphasizing on type and readability
Treehouse expands: hits $3.6m in revenues, nears 20k active users and nabs book deal
User experience trends and the problem with stealing bad ideas

More than anything else, it’s simply exciting to see the Web evolve right in-front of us. If you’re searching for more Design & Dev news, tips, apps and sharables, check out TNW’s full D&D channel here.

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News Article More Sharing on Social Networks

Look for more social media integration into your favorite websites and even new websites. While sharing buttons at the end of articles is very old news, I predict the use of deeper integration with social media networks on websites to explode in 2013.

This includes further expansion of social single sign-on, “pay by tweet” or “pay by status” sharing, exploring other types of social media based on website content (such as Instagram for news sites or Pinterest for artists and designers), and even more advertising on social networks.

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Motion Graphics

The page layout and user interface may also be affected by the use of motion graphics. The choice of whether or not to use motion graphics may depend on the target market for the website. Motion graphics may be expected or at least better received with an entertainment-oriented website. However, a website target audience with a more serious or formal interest (such as business, community, or government) might find animations unnecessary and distracting if only for entertainment or decoration purposes. This doesn't mean that more serious content couldn't be enhanced with animated or video presentations that is relevant to the content. In either case, motion graphic design may make the difference between more effective visuals or distracting visuals.

Page Layout

Fluid layouts increased in popularity around 2000 as an alternative to HTML-table-based layouts and grid-based design in both page layout design principle, and in coding technique, but were very slow to be adopted.This was due to considerations of screen reading devices and windows varying in sizes which designers have no control over. Accordingly, a design may be broken down into units (sidebars, content blocks, embedded advertising areas, navigation areas) that are sent to the browser and which will be fitted into the display window by the browser, as best it can. As the browser does recognize the details of the reader's screen (window size, font size relative to window etc.) the browser can make user-specific layout adjustments to fluid layouts, but not fixed-width layouts. Although such a display may often change the relative position of major content units, sidebars may be displaced below body text rather than to the side of it. This is a more flexible display than a hard-coded grid-based layout that doesn't fit the device window. In particular, the relative position of content blocks may change while leaving the content within the block unaffected. This also minimizes the user's need to horizontally scroll the page.

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