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MODERN LAYOUTS
Getting Out of Our Ruts
THE WEB AHEAD
thewebahead.net
JEN SIMMONS
@jensimmons
Responsive Field Day 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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The medium shapes
the medium.
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There’s a world of
Graphic Design
older than the web.
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Layout should
serve the content.
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MAGAZINES
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1.
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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: 60%;
float: left;
margin-right: 30px;
margin-bottom: 30px;
shape-outside:
polygon(50% 0,
100% 50%,
50% 100%,
0 50%);
}
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2.
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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
Candidate
Recommendation
Proposed
Recommendation Recommendation
CSS Values and Units,
Level 3
July 30, 2013
w3.org/TR/css3-values
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3.
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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;
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
Candidate
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
Candidate
Recommendation
Proposed
Recommendation Recommendation
CSS Grid Layout, Level 1
March 17, 2015
w3.org/TR/css-grid-1
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When?
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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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Reinventing
Web Layout
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(*From her incredible talk, Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Content.)
— Karen McGrane
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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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THE WEB AHEAD
thewebahead.net
JEN SIMMONS
@jensimmons
Thank you!