Microsoft reverted to flat colors and shapes for their Windows 8 design. As you can see below, the logo used to be wavy and the gradients gave it a solid 3-D feel. The Windows 7 operating system went further and encased the logo in a candy-like round button for the start menu. Then in Windows 8, they went in the other direction and made everything flat.
This new app from Wiley Publishing gives you access to the latest news, published titles and articles, and events in Physics and Astronomy, Maths and Statistics, Engineering and Construction on the go, and lets you save articles for reference.
Click here for iOS
Click here for Android
When updating legacy content, I often come across cases where we never got the original Photoshop files from the designer or it's so old that it got lost many generations ago. So I'll work from an existing JPG and use selections to keep parts of a composition. In the case below, we need to swap out the old logo for "Wiley" and replace with the Akzidenz-Grotesk font. The text was however placed on top of a background that was hard to rubber stamp out. So I kept the 3 square images and recreated the background using filters.
Before
Flowers
- Lotus 1
- Lotus 2
Landscapes
- Birch stand
- Etched in snow
Still Life
- Onions on fabric
- Two White Eggplants
- Lemons and Plums
- Chinese lanterns
Representational
- Sheltered
- As They Swim 1
- As They Swim 2
- As They Swim 5
A Painted Garden
Mount Kisco Public Library
July 6 - 30, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday July 6, 1 - 3pm
For more details visit www.mountkiscolibrary.org
Vermont Open Studio Weekend 2013
May 25 and 26
For details please visit
http://www.vermontcrafts.com/links/open.html
Wiley China is actually a minisite of Wiley.com US used for marketing purposes. As you can see with the old site, it was out of date for some time already. It needed some new templates to handle features more easily and in a more fixed manner. The new site was divided up and organized so that it would save time for non-technical editors. At the same time, it keeps the look consistent with the mother site.
Before
As part of a partnership with TED, Wiley had a minisite setup under their main Wiley.com. Unlike most minisites, this one used the same header and footer as the main site, so it saved a bit of time in coding the templates.
These are some pretty useful and convenient tools for testing how
responsive web sites resize and reconfigure for various device widths:
The Responsinator
- Enter a responsive site URL into the form field
- Submit to see a simulation across various device widths & orientations
Benjamin Keen's Bookmarklet
- Install the bookmark by dragging the link to your bookmark bar
- Visit a responsive site
- Click on the bookmark for a set of IFRAME previews
Victor Coulon's Bookmarklet
- Install the bookmark by dragging the link to your bookmark bar
- Visit a responsive site
- Click on the bookmark for an interactive preview in a single IFRAME
- Use the links above to resize the IFRAME
Examples:
- http://foodsense.is
- http://spigotdesign.com
- http://www.authenticjobs.com
- http://www.getskeleton.com
It's been a while since Wiley.com had a redesign... long before I started working there. I'm almost constantly redesigning sites or launching brand new ones at work, but this one was by far the largest one I've done. It wasn't the most technically difficult, but the amount of content and various page types made the project time consuming. This was so heavy on the frontend that 3 of our developers dropped their normal backend duties to help me out.
Vermont's Contemporary Traditions
Southern Vermont Arts Center
Yesterhouse Galleries
September 8 - 30, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday Sept. 8, 2 - 4pm
For more details visit www.svac.org
A Painted Garden
Mount Kisco Public Library
July 6 - 30, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday July 6, 1 - 3pm
For more details visit www.mountkiscolibrary.org
Updated Complete Exhibitions List
Pick Up Your Tires
Now you can order tires online and have them conveniently shipped to RCT at no addtional charge. They are listed on Tire Rack, Discount Tire and various other tire web sites as recommended installers.
New Store Hours
Monday - Friday: 8am-5pm
Saturday: 8am-4pm
Social Networks
- Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/RCT-Performance/141077802696621)
- Instagram (rctperformance)
Wheel Alignment
As RCT shifted their focus over the years, a new page concentrating on wheels was created, showcasing new equipment.
The production of energy, a critical resource for the welfare and prosperity of society, is a complex process that may also cause adverse environmental and societal effects.
As of this weekend, Dummies.com is fully mobile optimized for iPhone and Android devices. In general, creating a mobile site is pretty easy. Pages have simpler layouts and there are less browsers to worry about, but the challenge in this case was hooking up the mobile templates with a site that already existed. Here are the technical highlights of this project:
Sharing Content
The mobile site is setup so that editorial staff never need to logon to edit both sites. Whatever is done to the desktop site will reflect on the mobile. The structure of the sections are reading from the same source, but applying different layouts/CSS.
Regions
The store part of the site is globalized to display the relevant currency while shopping. The site now does 2 checks to the user: 1) whether they are mobile or desktop… 2) what region of the world they are in.
Slideshow
More time was spent on this article type than all of the others combined! This was a new type that went up on the desktop site earlier this year. Translating it to mobile line for line didn't work at all. It was important to get some sort of touch and drag functionality into it, but that's not fully supported via HTML/JS yet. The closest is a plugin called iScroll, which overrides the native scroll with its own. Check out the Pilates series for an example.
Video
Previous work on Dummies.com allowed video content to be played back on iOS, which doesn't support Flash. Going mobile added another layer on top of this. Now there's a check for mobile device that serves up a smaller player. So…
- If you're using a computer or Android tablet, you get the Flash player at full size
- If you're using an iPad, you get an HTML5 player at full size
- If you're using an iPhone, you get a mini HTML5 player
- If you're using an Android phone, you get a mini Flash player
Not all e-book formats are as straight forward as Kindle or iBooks. One of the more difficult ones to deal with is Adobe E-books (.ACSM) because it's a protected format. Purchasing the e-book and getting it on your PC is the easy part. It can get complex when you try to transfer the purchase to your e-reader or tablet. In an attempt to reduce customer service calls, a new, detailed help page was created with step-by-step instructions for all of the top devices. Check it out at... www.wiley.com/go/help/ebook
