Adventures in Interface Development
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SVG Spriting
SVG sprites offer the same efficiencies as PNG sprites, but they can be trickier to implement because of their innate scalability.
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Creating Social Icons from Glyphs
Even though using font glyphs for social icons allows only one color, complex color can be added with background gradients in a CSS-styled structure around the glyph.
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Making a Custom Icon Font for Your Website
Reducing server calls for image resources will speed up your page load and enhance performance. A great way to do this is to replace sprited icons with mobile-friendly custom fonts.
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Lose My Number
iOS has a handy built in feature: automatically sensing phone numbers and making them active links. When you touch them you get a dialog to make a call to that number. Unfortunately this can cause problem with your layout and your pages.
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The Gummy Worms of the Mobile Website
The mobile website I built Office Depot received a perfect score from Keynote Systems, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect. There is always room for improvement. When it comes to peak performance even small gains can make a big difference. What’s wrong with this picture? At first glance it seems okay. The site checks in…
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Office Depot’s Mobile Website Gets a Perfect Score
A recent article by Internet Retailer states that the Office Depot m-commerce website “exhibits spectacular performance”, citing our first-place ranking in Keynote Systems’ weekly rankings, in which the Office Depot mobile website achieved a perfect score of 1000. There are two main components in this performance rating: uptime and page load speed. The uptime is the…