Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Bootstrap – Responsive Off Canvas Menu

Bootstrap already takes care of showing the .navbar-toggle when it is on the x-small window size.

I have styled the .navbar-collapse.collapse to be positioned absolute by default. Only in the other media queries am I switching it to relative. Now when someone toggles the .navbar-toggle we are simply adding the .in class and the left css property is being adjusted

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3DCoverjQuery – jQuery Plugin to Create Cover of Book, DVD etc.

3DCoverjQuery is a jQuery plugin to create a cover of dvd, xbox, game or book with jQuery, CSS3, easily with a few lines of code.


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The Landscape Of Customer Identity Q2 2015 - #infographic

Social login preferences across the world - Infographic

In the second quarter of 2015, Facebook continued its steady dominance as a third-party identity provider (IdP). The world's largest social network now controls an astounding two-thirds of all social login, an all-time high. GooglePlus/Google is the only other identity provider that maintains a share of social logins greater than 10 percent while Yahoo, once a notable IdP, has dipped below 5 percent of logins for the first time.

In the below infographic, Gigya, a provider of identity management solutions, takes a closer look at how consumers used their existing social media credentials to authenticate their identities across the web and mobile devices in Q2 2015.

by Irfan Ahmad via Digital Information World

Is There a Perfect Paragraph Length for the Web?

[caption id="attachment_112063" align="alignright" width="400"]The original Magna Carta document The original Magna Carta document[/caption]

This is the original Magna Carta written in 1215. Parchment was very expensive in the 11th century, so thrifty scribes wrote in tiny, densely packed latin.

While it's quite beautiful, the absence of paragraphs gives it a rather impenetrable look – even allowing for the latin. It's hard for our modern eyes to traverse that sheer wall of text.

Why do we even need paragraphs?

Paragraphs serve three useful purposes in writing. Firstly they help the writer to order and organise their thoughts. Secondly, they give the reader 'rest points' as they work through the text.

And finally, paragraphs give us entry and exit points into documents – shortcuts for navigating around text. This is particularly useful on the web, where we know that readers browse, scan and snack on text much more than they do on printed texts.

What is the ideal paragraph length?

[caption id="attachment_112062" align="alignright" width="318"]Sentence lengths over time Sentence Lengths in SOTU over time - Source: Language Log[/caption]

Predictably, there are lots of answers for this question, but the general consensus has been getting shorter for 200 years. Mark Liberman from Language Log wrote a script that analyzed the structure of every US presidential 'Inaugural Address' and 'State of the Union' address since the late 1700's. Of course, sentence length and paragraph length are different, but there's certainly a relationship.

As Mark's chart shows, average sentence length has gone from over 40 words per sentence, to less than 20 words in 2011. I don't have a problem with this trend, but some do.

Whatever the driving forces, we've been continually selecting for shorter sentences and paragraphs for a long time.

Elsewhere Bob Brooke's Writers' Corner advises that you 'Try to limit your paragraph to five lines – not sentences. If it's too long, break it down into a series of paragraphs on subtopics'. Of course, on the web 'five lines' changes from device to device.

The Yahoo! Style Guide says “Keep paragraphs short. Two to three sentences is often enough.”

Which brings us to an interesting question.

As FEDs/designers/UX people, we take responsibility for setting type sizing, line-heights, kerning, contrast, and all other typographic choices to create the best possible user experience.

1) Is it also our job to try to design the ideal paragraph lengths for our layouts? (most would say no).

2) The 'ideal' paragraph length surely must differ for different screen sizes? What is most comfortable to read on a Kindle or desktop surely isn't the same as what works best on an iPhone.

Take this example of the same text on two devices:

On the phone above, a lot of the usefulness of paragraphs starts to disappear when you can only see one or at best two paragraphs at a time. We get a more 'magna carta-esque' wall of text.

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5 Important Considerations for an SEO-Friendly Site Redesign

Your website is often the face of your company, and there are oh so many reasons to give your website a facelift. Maybe it’s time to ramp up the functionality and enhance usability. Maybe the purpose of your site has changed, or its social media integration isn’t up to snuff. Maybe it still looks like this.

Whatever the reason, retaining - and even improving - your site’s SEO should be high up on your checklist.

Otherwise, your site will face heavy traffic loss, and all that work will be for naught. Sure, you may have poured significant time and money into your site’s overhaul, but if users can’t find the site, you’ve just remodeled a house with no address, on an island, an invisible island, in outer space.

To avoid traffic loss and conquer the search engines, here are five important considerations for an SEO-friendly redesign.

1. Ensure All Content Is Indexable

In order for a web page to be ranked in a search engine, it must be indexed by web crawlers. Think of these crawlers as an army of Pac-Men who scour webpages for little yellow dots of data. The crawlers then deliver that data to the search engine servers, where it’s catalogued and stored, much like a library.

But crawlers are picky eaters, and can only index certain types of data. In order for your content to be indexable, it must be formatted in a way that’s compatible with the crawlers’ particular dietary needs. Here are some guidelines:

  • Any content you want indexed should be written in HTML.

  • Any images you want indexed should contain alt tags.

  • If your website has video or audio content, and you’d like that content to be indexed, include a written transcript on the website.
  • Restricted pages, such as pages only accessible via a form or password, are not indexable, so avoid them when possible.
  • Unless you’re dealing with sensitive information, avoid any instances of robots.txt. A robots.txt tells crawlers _not _to scan or process certain areas of a website.

If you’re having trouble deciding on what is and what is not indexable, or you want to verify your site’s indexability after redesign, use the following tools:

  • Run Link Assistant’s Website Auditor to check for indexing and crawlability errors.
  • Use Cached View to see a visual representation of a webpage’s indexable content.
  • Take a mental break and play Pac-Man.

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by Joshua Kraus via SitePoint

Browser Trends August 2015: Chrome Exceeds 50%

In last month's browser chart, Chrome had been struggling to jump above 50% usage. The browser fares better in July's StatCounter statistics

Worldwide Desktop & Tablet Browser Statistics, June to July 2015

The following table shows browser usage movements during the past month.

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by Craig Buckler via SitePoint

SimpleCalculadora – Simple jQuery Calculator Plugin

SimpleCalculadora is powerful yet easy to use jQuery plugin for building a calculation, It supports CSS customization, easy translation, two options of calculators.


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