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overview

• design for an ISO A-series page size to:
• have more area to place more text and more words.
• have the ability to enlarge or reduce content to other A-series sizes that all have the same proportion. no wasted space when reducing an A4 document to an A5 size, or when enlarging an A4 document to an A3 size.
• enjoy the added benefit of designing with metric units like the millimeter that can enhance design planning.
• use a page-size format that is already widely used by many people in most regions.

overview

• in general, it is good practice to:
• express calendar years to 4 numeric places.
• spell out calendar months for human readers, or use a three-character abbreviation of a calendar month.
• if expressing a calendar month numerically, consider the use of an ISO 8601 date interchange format such as '2007-10-02'.
• not rely on the use of 'am' or 'pm' designations of times that may be ambiguous for general audiences, especially if the audiences are global.
• moreover,
• consider the use of calendar and clock formats that are ready for different sources of interchange.
• consider the representation of calendar day-of-year elements to facilitate increased accessibility of calendar date information.
• reference an appropriate style or design guide that reflects the proper use of various expressions for representing calendar dates.

• overview
• why XHTML 1.1 is important for web developers
• issues and modern alternatives
• what's next?

overview

• a lot of web developers would like to code with XHTML 1.1 but have hesitated because a lot of web users aren't yet using a modern XHTML web browser.
• yet there are a number of good reasons to code web pages with the modular XHTML 1.1.
• documents coded with an XHTML 1.1 MODULAR doctype do not need to run the larger legacy instruction sets used by legacy HTML markup, and thus can be rendered by modern XHTML browsers more efficiently in comparison to legacy HTML doctype documents.
• fortunately, even in the meantime, web developers can pursue modern extensible alternatives to legacy practices that limit the extensibility of content.

• preview
• introduction
• determining the unit of measure
• determining the scale of proportion

preview

• create proportional web graphics to represent quality graphics quickly and consistently, especially when an image or a format-size is likely to be re-used.
• use a scale of proportion that complements the particular design scenario.
• use metric units to keep calculations in terms of whole numbers and decimal fractions.
• configure your computer and software to show scales in terms of metric units.

• putting a value on best practices

• keypoints
• introduction
• a continua of capitalization style
• strategies for working with style
• issues of case transformation and case sensitivity
• reconsideration of a structured style of capitalization
• implications of a structured caps style
• some primary works referenced

• guidelines
• methods
• format of the image source
• grid format tools
• comparisons
• first comparison
• table 01: resample size and factor
• second comparison
• table 02: resample of crop size and factor
• third comparison
• table 03: rational resample of size and factor
• fourth comparison
• table 04: description of downsample iterations
• table 05: downsamples with difference blends
• conclusion
• appenidix A: previous results
• appenidix B: standard of comparison
• appenidix C: additional details about comparisons

• keypoints
• introduction
• type as dimensionless
• usability review of CS4 typography
• units as singular
• framework of type size increment
• table 01: table of options for type size
• other comments