Lets face it, layout in CSS has sucked for a long time. We’ve gone from tables to floats to inline-block layouts but they all lacked any real consideration for actual complex layouts that involve content re-ordering.In comes flexbox a powerful part of the many great layout specs available in your favourite evergreen browser right now! […]
Web based animation has arrived, and it’s time for you to start taking advantage of it to engage and delight your users. And in this session we’ll see how. We’ll cover CSS Transitions and Animations, and throw some 2D and 3D Transforms into the mix as well, to understand how today’s most common, and eye […]
Last week we looked at one of HTML5’s syntax quirks, the fact that you don’t need to quote attribute values (unless the values contain a space or as is less well known one of a number of other characters). This time, some more about some of the subtle side effects of HTML5’s laxer syntax rules. […]
If you think animation is just more CSS pixie dust to add sparkle to your designs, you need to see Dmitry Baranovskiy demo its even more awesome powers. Like what you see? Want a piece of the action next time around? Then get along to Web Directions South in Sydney October 24 and 25 2013.
CSS Filters are a powerful tool available in all modern browsers to bring amazing photographic effects to web content. If you’re not using them, you should be – here’s how! Like what you see? Want a piece of the action next time around? Then get along to Web Directions South in Sydney October 24 and […]
Remember the X in XML, and XHTML? It of course stands for extensible, the idea that these languages allow for their users to build upon them, rather than waiting for some standards organisation to add new features. With HTML5, extensibility of the markup language pretty much went out the window, despite the criticisms of many […]
As much as they affect JavaScript, state, event handling, and default browser behaviour also impact HTML and CSS in the choices we make, optimizations we can take advantage of, and the architecture of our applications as a whole. Like what you see? Want a piece of the action next time around? Then get along to […]
Watch in amazement: Lea Verou is one of the best live coders in the business. Learn how to take advantage of modern standards in unconventional ways to solve common web design challenges. Like what you see? Want a piece of the action next time around? Then get along to Web Directions South in Sydney October […]
Can style guides lead to better UI code? Better performance? Yes, absolutely. In this talk, Nicole will show you how she and her team collaborated with Trulia engineers and designers to create a living style guide. She’ll also share some yummy data about how that affected real user measurements. Like what you see? Want a […]
In this session, you’ll learn about good tools that can make CSS development faster and maintenance easier.
In this session, we’ll take a look at all of the possibilities and explore what works and where — from the simplest effects, to creative usability enhancements including the combination of CSS with mobile Javascript frameworks.
With most browsers adding increasing support, and the simplicity of providing fallbacks for those that don’t, CSS3 gradients are something we can start to use right now. They benefit our users with faster websites and ourselves with more time in our hands to spend in other things, since they are easy to create, edit and update. A very powerful feature that can also be utilized for a surprising number of design effects, even ones that don’t resemble gradients at all. In this talk, Lea will explore CSS3 gradients in great depth and it’s almost guaranteed that no matter your expertise level, you will walk out having learned new things.
Find out how to creatively use new features of CSS3 (gradients, multiple backgrounds, generated content, and many more) to give life to your design ideas, make them adaptable and maintainable, and provide the best experience possible on an array of platforms.
CSS3 is changing how we design and develop web sites, allowing us to quickly and easily create and maintain highly efficient and adaptable sites that are a pleasure to use. You’ll learn practical yet progressive examples of the most beneficial CSS3 techniques to put to use in your pages today.
Web typography expert Jason Cranford Teague shows you how to apply the principles of fluid typography, to choose, find and use Webfonts and create your unique typographic voice. Come and find out why 2010 is going to be the year of Web typography.
Thoroughly enjoyed Web Directions — met some great people, heard some inspiring presenters and added a whole bunch of things to my to-do list.
Joel Roberts Web Developer
