Posts tagged “mobile” 

In the past few months, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time discussing the differences between the “adaptive” and “responsive” web design philosophies. Don’t get me wrong, I love having these discussions, but I felt the need to set the record straight: these two philosophies are not at odds.

This past week, Kelly and I were in Brooklyn for the ExpressionEngine CodeIgniter conference. We had a great time, met some awesome people, and I got to talk about my favorite topic: progressive enhancement.

You may not have noticed, but we just turned this blog on it’s head, design-wise. Those of you browsing on something other than a desktop browser should now be enjoying a much better reading experience. Here’s what’s changed and how we did it.

Many companies have gone the route of maintaining a separate “mobile friendly” website. If you choose to do so, make sure you don’t lose customers when redirecting them from one site to another.

Apologies for not posting links last week…between the holiday on Monday and spending all of Tuesday without power, I got a little behind.

Last week, Steve Jobs resigned and Twitter launched a resource for quickly building prototypes and apps. Also: solar power keeps getting cheaper and airports are going to the bees.

In this week’s link round-up, we bring you the reasoning behind Typekit’s font-loading strategy, two new CSS grid systems, a fantastic mashuip of Peanuts with Jaws, and the story of a woman ejected from a Houston bar for tweeting something the General Manager didn’t like. Happy reading!

From rethinking grid layouts to an HIV test that fits in your wallet and costs less than $1, we discovered a lot of great links last week.

Last week the U.S. teetered on the brink of economic collapse, but there were lots of goodies to think about and share too.