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Web design and development for beyond the desktop. Ben will be sharing about prototyping style.
Two-day conference full of intensely educational speakers who care about code, content, usability and design.
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Ben's recent article on Web Standards Sherpa and Jeremy's on Web Design Tuts Plus are now live. Ben introduces responsive retrofitting while Jeremy discusses typographic hierarchy. Both are great reads.
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Ben offers up a set of SCSS mixins that allows one to serve a large resolution layout to old IE, build with mobile-first CSS, and put media queries right inline where they make the most sense.
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There's an ongoing debate in the responsive web design community — do users resize their browser windows or not? Rob Tarr has written a little JavaScript snippet that sends browser resize events to Google Analytics. Some data for the debate!
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Sparkbox is taking the Build Responsively Workshops on the road again, hitting Northern Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. It's time to roll up our sleeves with the great local talent of these hard-working cities.
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What's better than Rob Tarr's helpful little media query bookmarklet? A version update! Version 1.3 now available.
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Ben explains his 30,000 foot view of our industry's current state as it relates to responsive web design.
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Announcing our second responsive workshop, slated for July 9-10 in beautiful Columbus, Ohio.
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Is your RWD tool belt feeling a little light? You're probably missing the right JavaScript. Rob Tarr has just what you may be looking for.
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Ben Callahan presents Sparkbox's stand on responsive web design.
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Responsive web design: a set of techniques or a mindset? Ben Callahan shares his thoughts.
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Oh yeah, they have robots. Which Pickd Bot are you?
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Tickets for our Cincinnati workshop are up for grabs. Get yours today!
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Some websites beg to be responsive. We were happy to answer.
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We're pumped to share about our responsive web design one-day workshops beginning in February of 2012.
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A list of excuses and reasons why. Presented Simpson's style.
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Our Morestache app brings home a Notable Mention from 10K Apart.
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Working with the University System of Maine and their marketing partner, Mindpower, we bring their Think.Maine campaign to life on the web.
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Ben provides his take on the future of context and the possibilities for personalized user experiences.
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We like to call him, "El Presidente." You can call him, "Mr. Content Prototype." Check out his latest article on Smashing Magazine.
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Ben and Rob throw down over appropriate client deliverables for a responsive website project. There will be blood.
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Ben brings his ideals to our Sparkboxing match, urging us to change the deliverables we give to clients.
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Rob brings his pragmatism to our Sparkboxing match, contending that we need to be realistic about what we're able to deliver to clients.
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A reminder about who's on the other end of your work.
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New to the work section, we have one of our latest projects: the White Lotus Aromatics website.
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Apple iPad sales more than doubled Apple Mac sales last quarter. The web industry is moving more rapidly than anyone could have predicted toward a mobile browsing experience. Responsive web design is a great option to combat the unknown devices yet to emerge––big OR small.
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We created this bookmarklet to aid in designing responsive websites. Now you can always know what media query just triggered. Never again will you lose track of where you are.
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Why it's important to increase the text size of a responsive site at smaller resolutions.
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Here's how to target the iPhone 4 in a media query and replace the background images with hi res images.
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Over the past year or two, we've seen amazing growth rates in the mobile market––between 200% and 300% accessing our clients' websites. This article explains three approaches to prepping your site for the coming wave of mobile browsers.
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Smartphone sales surpassed PC sales as of the end of 2010. This article provides a further look into analytics of organizations we've built sites for and summarizes what this means for your website.
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Where do you start when designing for a responsive site? First instinct is to start with the largest size, but we found the widest column is the key.
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The Sparkbox crew has been digging into responsive website design over the past few weeks. This article lists a few of the sites we've been looking to for guidance as we understand the underlying concepts.
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Ethan Marcotte wrote this article back in May of 2010. It's critical to our industry because it pushes us all toward building smarter sites.
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When looking for a website design firm, make sure they address accessibility and adhere to Web-Standards.
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