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On Typography

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

I have been intrigued by the idea of making a typographic scale out of a musical scale that would not only be very readable, but also aesthetically pleasing. This whole idea started after the launch of my new site. At first, I ignored to see it, but weeks later I started to notice that the textual content of the site is actually pretty harsh for the eyes and the reading experience isn't that great.

Convert a list to a select

Tue, 3 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

I created another responsive plugin during Christmas holidays. It's called TinyNav.js. It's a tiny jQuery plugin (351 bytes minified and gzipped) that converts ul and ol navigations to a select dropdowns for small screen. It also automatically selects the current page and adds selected state for that item.

Fluid image replacement techniques

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT

While you can find two dozen blog posts and articles about various image replacement techniques using Google, I couldn't find any article that would help when you want the replacement to be fluid. If the term "image replacement" is unknown to you, it basically means that we replace some content on a page - usually text - with an image.

ResponsiveSlides.js

Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:00:00 GMT

I created this plugin while I were developing my own site and decided few days ago to release it as an open source version. Its basic function is to create responsive slideshow using images inside a container. The interesting thing is, that this is actually the very first JavaScript plugin I’ve done and that’s why I thought that I should write down some notes while I’m at it.

Web inspector for iPhone

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Web inspector for iOS is something I’ve wanted for ages, and after short testing this seems to work very well for the job.

New viljamis.com design

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Since you are here, you have probably noticed that there’s a new design which I have been working on for some time now. I wanted to focus on the content and make something much more simple. I also wanted my site to work with various devices from smartphones to TV’s. That’s why I used the so called “Mobile First” technique and made the whole site responsive from about 240px and up.

Responsive jQuery Slideshow revisited

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

I wrote a blog post about making responsive jQuery slideshow on 18 May 2011 (You can read it on Kisko Labs' blog). Since then much has happened and there's now quite a lot of options where you could choose from. I did a short summary for this blog post about the options out there right now.

Responsive Advertising

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Mark Boulton has written an interesting piece about responsive advertising. You should go and read it.