Earlier this week Steve and I sat down to create our first Fresh Tilled Soil podcast called: The Dirt. We chose to kick off this epic venture by discussing responsive design; a topic that we thought might be interesting in the community and has also been a recent hot topic around the office. We didn’t want to tackle the entire thing as it would take days and you’d get super-bored so we went right after dealing with images.
In this episode we talk about the different ways we deal with responsive images and preparing those images for a responsive project. Everything from normal sprites, to SVG, to icon fonts gets covered in this, our maiden recording of The Dirt.
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Hope you enjoy the show!
Listener Questions
- Once you’ve got a basic wireframe defined for a new design, how do you approach designing individual sections (like a main body content area, or a particular box on a home page): Do you start with the 10,000-foot view, general look and feel first (size and shape)? Fonts? Colors?
- SASS or LESS?
- Photoshop or Fireworks?
If you have a question for the show, please submit a text or audio version by e-mailing it to tim.wright@freshtilledsoil.com. Then listen to the following week’s show for the answer (we can let you know as well).
Show Notes
- Sprite Cow
- Diagonal Sprites
- Picturefill
- Picture element
- Network information API
- Adding and SVG mimetype to you htaccess
- IcoMoon
- Font hinting
- Chartwell font
- Symbolset icon font
Credits
- Hosts: Tim Wright & Steve Hickey
- Production: Alex Fedorov & Mark Grambau
- Theme song: Alex Fedorov