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MODERN LAYOUTS
Getting Out of Our Ruts
THE WEB AHEAD
thewebahead.net
JEN SIMMONS
@jensimmons
October 2015
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The most prominent result from the new eyetracking studies is not actually new.
We simply confirmed for the umpteenth time that banner blindness is real.
—Jakob Nielsen, August 20, 2007, Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings
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drawing by Dave Ellis
novolume.co.uk
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The medium shapes
the medium.
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There’s a world of
Graphic Design
older than the web.
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vogue.com
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Layout should
serve the content.
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MAGAZINES
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CSS Shapes
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Jeremy Keith
Jeremy Keith lives in Brighton, England where he makes websites with the splendid design agency Clearleft.
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img {
float: left;
margin-right: 2em;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}
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img {
float: left;
margin-right: 2em;
margin-bottom: 0.5em;
shape-outside: circle();
}
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Working Draft Last Call
Candidate
Recommendation
Proposed
Recommendation Recommendation
CSS Shapes, Level 1
March 20, 2014
w3.org/TR/css-shapes-1
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shape-outside: circle();
shape-outside: ellipse();
shape-outside: border-box;
shape-outside: inset(0px round
120px) border-box;
shape-outside: url(http://
example.com/image.jpg);
shape-margin: 30px;
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labs.thewebahead.net
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github.com/jensimmons/thelayoutsahead
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img {
width: 50%;
float: left;
margin-right: 30px;
margin-bottom: 30px;
shape-outside:
ellipse(50% 50%);
}
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img {
width: 50%;
float: left;
margin-right: 30px;
margin-bottom: 30px;
border-radius: 100px;
}
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img {
width: 50%;
float: left;
margin-right: 30px;
margin-bottom: 30px;
border-radius: 100px;
shape-outside:border-box;
shape-margin: 30px;
}
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img {
width: 60%;
float: left;
margin-right: 30px;
margin-bottom: 30px;
shape-outside:
polygon(50% 0,
100% 50%,
50% 100%,
0 50%);
}
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Shapes Level 1 — NOW!
shape-outside: foo();
Shapes Level 2 — Later
shape-inside: foo();
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Source order
matters.
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Working Draft Last Call
Candidate
Recommendation
Proposed
Recommendation Recommendation
CSS Exclusions, Level 1
Jan 15, 2015
w3.org/TR/css3-exclusions
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Use Absolute Positioning to place
an item — or CSS Grid Layout.
Then add the wrap-flow property.
Example:
wrap-flow: both;
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main {
transform:
rotate(-10deg);
}
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h1 {
transform:
rotate(-90deg);
}
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h1 {
float: left;
padding-bottom: 200px;
transform:
rotate(-45deg);
shape-outside:
polygon(nonzero,
-58px 80.55%, 75.95% -70px,
89.55% -33.65%, -13.4%
121.45%);
}
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main {
width: 300px;
}
@media (min-width: 500px) {
main {
background: red;
transform: rotate(-10deg); }
}
@media (min-width: 700px) {
main {
background: green;
transform: rotate(-20deg); }
}
@media (min-width: 900px) {
main {
width: 400px;
background: blue;
transform: rotate(-30deg); }
}
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transform: rotate
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Working Draft Last Call
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Recommendation Recommendation
CSS Transforms, Level 1
Nov 26, 2013
w3.org/TR/css-transforms-1
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Multiple Column
Layout
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article {
max-width: 500px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
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article {
column-count: 2;
column-gap: 2em;
}
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article {
// column-count: 2;
column-width: 200px;
column-gap: 2em;
}
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img {
width: 100%;
}
article {
column-width: 200px;
column-gap: 2em;
column-rule:
1px solid #444;
}
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Working Draft Last Call
Candidate
Recommendation
Proposed
Recommendation Recommendation
CSS Multicolumn Layout
April 12, 2011
w3.org/TR/css3-multicol
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CSS Regions
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Grace Hopper
Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and invented the first compiler for a computer programming language...
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img {
float: left;
margin-right: 2em;
width: 50%;
}
div {
padding: 2em;
}
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img {
float: left;
margin-right: 2em;
// width: 50%;
height: 100vh;
}
div {
padding: 2em;
}
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img {
float: left;
margin-right: 2em;
width: 50vw;
height: 100vh;
}
h1 {
font-size: 6vw;
}
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Full-height “Cover Sheets” are the new Splash Page
Lorum ipsum article content…
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header {
border: 20px solid #000;
background: yellow;
padding: 3em 6em;
}
h1 {
font-size: 10vw;
margin-top: 0;
text-align: center;
}
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header {
border: 20px solid #000;
background: yellow;
padding: 3em 6em;
height: 100vh;
}
h1 {
font-size: 10vw;
margin-top: 0;
text-align: center;
}
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Viewport Units
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Anyplace you might use em, rem, %, px
you can instead use:
vh viewport height
vw viewport width
vmin smaller viewport number
vmax larger viewport number
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Working Draft Last Call
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Recommendation
Proposed
Recommendation Recommendation
CSS Values and Units,
Level 3
June 11, 2015
w3.org/TR/css3-values
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header {
border: 20px solid #000;
background: yellow;
min-height: 100vh;
padding: 3em 6em;
}
h1 {
font-size: 10vw;
margin: 0;
text-align: center;
}
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header {
border: 20px solid #000;
background: yellow;
min-height: 100vh;
}
h1 {
font-size: 10vw;
margin: 0;
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header {
border: 20px solid #000;
background: yellow;
min-height: 100vh;
display: flex;
}
h1 {
font-size: 10vw;
margin: auto;
}
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header {
border: 20px solid #000;
background: yellow;
min-height: 100vh;
display: flex;
}
h1 {
font-size: 10vw;
margin: auto;
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header {
border: 20px solid #000;
background: yellow;
min-height: 100vh;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
}
h1 {
font-size: 10vw;
// margin: auto;
}
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header {
border: 20px solid #000;
background: yellow;
min-height: 100vh;
display: flex;
align-items: flex-end;
justify-content: flex-end;
}
h1 {
font-size: 10vw;
margin: 0;
}
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Flexbox
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Working Draft Last Call
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Recommendation
Proposed
Recommendation Recommendation
CSS Flexible Box Layout, Level 1
May 14, 2015
w3.org/TR/css-flexbox-1
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CSS Grid Layout
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Working Draft Last Call
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Recommendation
Proposed
Recommendation Recommendation
CSS Grid Layout, Level 1
September 17, 2015
w3.org/TR/css-grid-1
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Old School
Floats
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Dynamic
Grids
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When?
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When Can I Use This
in Production?
(aka on a Real Website)
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Why Did You Tell Me About
All This Stuff
I Totally Can’t Use Yet?
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Do Websites Need To Look
Exactly The Same in Every
Browser?
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DoWebsitesNeedToLook
ExactlyTheSameinEvery
Browser.com
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Progressive
Enhancement
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When Can I Use This?
Later
Grid Layout
Exclusions
Shapes Level 2
Uncertain
Regions
More?
Round
Fragmentation
Figures
Overflow
(???…)
Last Fall
Shapes Level 1
Flexbox
Viewport Units
5 Years Ago
Rotation
Multicolumn Layout
Dynamic Grids
(odd numbers of columns,
ratio grids)
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Hardest part is
changing our thinking,
not our CSS.
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Magazines
and
The Web
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Translate.
Don’t Transfer.
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(*From her incredible talk, Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Content.)
— Karen Mc rane
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The most
dangerous phrase
in the language is
‘We’ve always done
it this way.’
— Grace Hopper
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One Last Story
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?
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THE WEB AHEAD
thewebahead.net
JEN SIMMONS
@jensimmons
Thank you!
Mozilla Designer Evangelist