Jan
Free Wireframing, Sketching & Design Resources for Designers
Free Yahoo Design Stencil Kit
Yahoo Design Stencil Kit version 1.0 is available for OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), Adobe Illustrator (PDF and SVG), and Adobe Photoshop (PNG).
iPhone PSD Vector Kit
iPhone Starter Kit, a set that comes with several button elements as well as six different iPhone interface options. This pack may be useful for mobile developers and front-end designers who need a professional way to show mock-ups to clients or to work out ideas.
Nov
Creative & Modern Website Footer for Designers
Handpicked collection of Beautiful, Creative & modern website footer for designers. A very handy pack for design references.
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Apr
Online Library of UX Design Patterns – Quince
Quince is an on-line directory of UX design patterns created by Infragistics. If you are looking for design patterns or script resources or some inspiration with examples, then your search is over, you are at right place.
A beautifully managed collection of design patterns, and what makes it good is it contains all these with a number of examples.
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Jan
The Significance of Color
I wonder if you knew that visitors to your website form an instant opinion? And they form it about you and your offer. This instant opinion is created subconsciously. It happens automatically within the visitors mind. It happens automatically. Your site visitors can’t help themselves. It matters not a jot how clever the text is on your page. You can have paid an expensive professional to produce your copy for you. The visitor need not read a single word, and yet they will form their instant opinion.
The quality of the images on your web page won’t make any difference. Their quality doesn’t affect in this instant opinion. You might think if you make an unrepeatable offer, that your visitor is bound to be swayed by that! I’m sorry, the instant opinion clicks in, and your brilliant offer lies unseen. This is because the instant opinion is made when your web page is displayed to your visitor. You may have guessed there is something subliminal at work here. In a way, that is right. Immediate opinions are formed by visitors to every single website. You may have already worked out that the answer is colors. When your web page appears to your visitor, the colors you’ve used go to work on the subconscious of your visitors.
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Jan
Fixed Website Footer without JavaScript
This footer behaviour is not a new idea; I’ve seen it on a few sites over the years, the most well known probably being version 7 of Shaun Inman’s site. Take a look at the ‘Work’ page with JavaScript enabled, then disabled to see the effect in action.
I suspect that this behaviour, which can look great in the right situation, has not been widely adopted because existing solutions have always relied on JavaScript for what should be a simple presentation issue.
The technique described in this article is purely a CSS solution and works in all modern browsers, tested down to IE5.5.
Firstly, here’s a demonstration.
The HTML
<div id=”content”></div>
<div id=”footer”></div>
</div>
The CSS
#container {display: block; position: absolute; min-height: 100%;}
#content {display: block; margin-bottom: 3em;}
#footer {position: absolute; display: block; bottom: 0; height: 3em }
IE6 Stylesheet
<!–[if lt IE 7]>
<link href=”css/ie6.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />
<![endif]–>
How it works
As you can see, the mark-up and styling are pretty simple. Here’s a quick run-through of what’s going on…
- #container is set to be at least as tall as the browser window using min-height and although IE6 doesn’t understand this, it treats height in exactly the same way. #container must be positioned absolutely, or this will not work.
- #footer is positioned absolutely at the bottom of #container
- #content is given a bottom margin equal to the height of #footer to prevent the two ever overlapping.
Known Issues
The simplicity of this technique makes it fairly reliable and the only real issues to consider are for IE6 and below. For these browsers you’ll need to specify any additional containers as also having a height of 100%.
For example, if your mark-up was:
<div id=”container”>
<div id=”content”></div>
<div id=”footer”></div>
</div>
</div>
In your IE specific CSS you’d need to specify:
Conclusion
This is a nice and easy solution to those unsightly gaps below your footers and while it won’t be appropriate for every site, it might come in handy from time to time. Please let me know if you find any problems with it.
Demo: http://boagworld.com/FixedFooter/
Via: http://boagworld.com/technology/fixed_footers_without_javascri/
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