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By default, Rails comes packed with the Prototype javascript library and the effects library, Scriptaculous. While this is all well and good sometimes you want a change. I personally prefer jQuery to prototype. I don’t have any beef with prototype, infact I used it for about a year before even getting into rails, but I just prefer the jQuery syntax and selectors.
jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.
jQuery, like Protoype, is a javascript library that takes care of much of the grunt work you face day to day. It helps to resolve your cross browser issues, makes creating dom elements easier and various other things.
I’ll post a couple of code examples so you can see the difference in the libraries. I’m not saying these examples are the best way to do things (I know people will say otherwise), they’re just here to help you understand the libraries.
Note: I haven’t tested these examples, although I believe they should all work.
Prototype
document.observe('dom:loaded', function() {
$$('a[rel~=external]').invoke('writeAttribute', 'target', 'blank');
});jQuery
$(function() {
$('a[rel=external]').attr('target', 'blank');
});Prototype
$('the-link').observe('click', function() {
$('the-div').addClass('hello');
});jQuery
$('#the-link').click( function() {
$('#the-div').addClass('hello');
});For more information on jQuery syntax and all the bells and whistles, have a look at the jQuery Documentation.
Remy Sharp has also published a walk through comparison between Prototype and jQuery to help developers go from one language to another.
Want to use jQuery but love your prototype helpers too much? Fear not! Enter jRails, stage left.
jRails is a drop-in jQuery replacement for Prototype/script.aculo.us on Rails. Using jRails, you can get all of the same default Rails helpers for javascript functionality using the lighter jQuery library.
That basically says it all.
ruby script/plugin install http://ennerchi.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/jrailsBosh. All sorted. The plugin will install all the required javascript files over to public/javascripts. Unless you’re planning on using prototype along side jQuery you will probably want to delete the prototype files in your javascripts folder.
Now you want to open up your application.html.erb file and edit the javascript include tag:
<%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>This will now include all the jRails files instead of the prototype/script.aculo.us files. You might want to just include the files that you need instead of all these:
<%= javascript_include_tag 'jquery' %>
<%= javascript_include_tag 'jquery-ui' %>
<%= javascript_include_tag 'jrails' %>You don’t have to do anything. Brilliant. That’s the main point of the jRails plugin. It does all the grunt work for you. Just use your helpers as you normally would.
I will say one thing though: a lot of the time you may just find it easier to use page << at certain times:
page << "$('span#bacon').text('CHunKy');"jQuery UI provides abstractions for low-level interaction and high-level, themeable widgets, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications.
The core of the library revolves around different mouse interactions, namely drag and dropping, sorting, selecting, and resizing, as well as a powerful set of effects.
On top of the core interactions are built a number of reusable widgets, including accordions, date pickers, dialogs, sliders and tabs.
I was going to write some blurb about jQuery UI but I feel that this quote says it all, really. Want to know more? Check out the jQuery UI site
I thought I'd list a couple of helpful scripts to help you on your way to the wonderful world of jQuery. So here goes:
Validation is a great form validation script by Jˆrn Zaefferer. Unobtrusive, sexy and just plain brilliant.
jQuery lightBox plugin is simple, elegant, unobtrusive, no need extra markup and is used to overlay images on the current page through the power and flexibility of jQuery¥s selector.
lightBox is a plugin for jQuery. It was inspired in Lightbox JS by Lokesh Dhakar.
The better way to know what is jQuery lightBox plugin, click the Example tab above and see it in action.
Everybody loves a lightbox, surely? The jQuery Lightbox script is based on by Leandro Vieira Pinho.
If you have any other suggestions for great jQuery scripts, let me know and I'll add them to the list.
If you found this post or anything else on this site of any use, then please take the time to recommend me on Working with Rails.
Jim Neath is a 26 year old Freelance Ruby on Rails developer from Manchester, UK.
Rails 3.0 beta is out and it’s now time to upgrade all the plugins available. To show you how to do it I’ve decided to create a small plugin compatible with Rails 2.x and Rails 3.0. It’s a wrapper around Rack::Cache to insert it automatically in a Rails application.
First things first we create the gem we will name rails-cache. Thanks to Jeweler it’s dead easy. Just a few lines of code in a Rakefile and it’s done:
To create the VERSION file a echo "1.0.0" > VERSION is enough.
The code of the gem will be in lib/rails/cache.rb and it’s just the insertion of the Rack::Cache middleware:
We build the gem with rake build and we install it with gem install --local pkg/rails-cache-1.0.0.gem. Then we need to load it in our environment.rb:
Rack::Cache is now plugged with the Rails application!
Rails 3.0 comes with Bundler. A cool thing with Bundler is that you can load a gem which have a custom path:
The :path option is the path to our gem. We have a lot of solution to do the same in Rails 2.x, with a plugin instead of a gem for example, but it is not as elegant as with Bundler (Bundler is usable with Rails 2.x).
To create a plugin for Rails there’s an object for that now, Rails::Railtie. So we just need to write an object which inherit from Rails::Railtie in lib/rails/cache.rb:
The gem has been upgraded to Rails 3.0!
This is just an example here, but it’s possible there’s a better solution:
And you can find the whole code on GitHub.
One of the most important thing when developing websites is page loading speed, to load as quickly as possible, especially in the case of large websites with lots of CSS code where faster loading means increased usability and user satisfaction.
CSS Compression tools improves your load time performance by removing comments from code, placing each command in one single line, removing unneeded ‘white space’ characters like space, new line, and tab to reduce its size.
Keep in mind, if you really want to optimize website performance, after the development stage, you should go further with CSS sprites, minifying JavaScript, gzip compression and caching your files.
Try out these online CSS optimization tools, some of them also offer JavaScript compression, and see how they can speed up website response time and save your bandwidth as well.
1. cssdrive.com CSS Compressor – comes in 2 modes: Normal and Advanced. You can choose from three levels of compression. The ‘Normal’ mode should work well in most cases, creating a good balance between the two.
2. Clean CSS – CSS Formatter and Optimiser based on csstidy available in English, German and French.
3. CSS Compressor at csscompressor.com - select from 4 levels of compression, depending on how legible you want the compressed CSS to be versus degree of compression.
4. CSS Optimizer at cssoptimiser.com - Optimize CSS via URI, File Upload or directly input CSS code into the form. There is no any fancy options.
5. codebeautifier.com CSS Compressor – another one based on CSSTidy
6. askapache.com online CSS Compression Tool - this CSS minification tool uses part of the JavaScript port of the YUI Compressor, and part of the W3 CSS Validator. You can upload a CSS file, specify CSS url, or just paste the CSS code without any options included.
7. Robson iceyboard.no-ip.org CSS Compressor - You can upload a file, specify CSS file url, or paste the CSS code. Good compression options.
8. flumpcakes.co.uk CSS Optimizer - this tool reads CSS just like a browser would. So using hacks which are browser specific will give random results, make sure any hacks are removed before use.
9. ebiene.de – JavaScript and CSS compression tool. You can choose between basic and powerful compression.
10. pagecolumn.com – Compress CSS, find and remove unused class and id in CSS (optional).
11. Pingates.com - You can specify CSS file url, or paste the CSS code. The same options as at 7. – Robson iceyboard.no-ip.org CSS Compressor.
12. Lotterypost.com CSS Compressor - you just need to paste CSS code and click the Compress. Good info about the ways the CSS Compressor reduces the size of your CSS style sheet.
13. Peterbe.com - The XHTML, HTML and CSS compressor. Without any options.
14. Refresh-sf.com - Online JavaScript/CSS Compression Using YUI Compressor. Just paste your code into the text area or select a file to upload. Then choose your compression type, JS or CSS.
15. Sevenforty.com CSS Compressor - based on the Java YUI Compressor and utilizes most of the same rule sets in addition to a few extras added. Simply upload CSS file you wish to shrink down, select your line break option and and you will get compressed CSS file in a zip archive.
16. phpinsider.com – by Monte Ohrt, no fancy options, just paste the CSS code and collect the result.
17. Devtrench.com - another CSSTidy based compressor.
18. Cssportal.com - CSS Code Formatter and Optimizer, also CSSTidy based.
19. Mabblog.com – Specify CSS file url, or paste CSS code, no fancy options.
20. Creativyst.com – CSS and JavaScript compressor.
21. Generateit.net – CSSTidy based CSS compressor.
22. Arrantius.com CSS Compressor – written in javascript so there is no transmitting your CSS to unknown server. It takes out comments and whitespace from a CSS file, nothing more.
23. Artiss.co.uk - only file upload, option to remove comments or not.
24. Homepage-Performance.de – options like to delete white spaces, last semicolon, replace colors, etc. You can only paste the CSS code.
25. Isnoop.net – options to remove white spaces, indent CSS and new line before opening brace.
CSS Analyser – check the validity of your CSS, along with a colour contrast test, and a test to ensure that relevant sizes are specified in relative units of measurement.
SqueezeBox CSS files packer Windows application - allows you to pack single or multiple CSS style sheets and Javascript files for any number of pages.
To summarize, try a few of them, experiment with CSS compressors, many of them give you the compression statistics, percentage by which your file size has been reduced.
Is there any other CSS compressors around the web or some other useful CSS tool we didn’t include here, please let us know.
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FancyForm is a powerful checkbox replacement script used to provide the ultimate flexibility in changing the appearance and function of HTML form elements. It's accessible, easy to use and degrades gracefully on all older, non-supporting browsers.
FancyForm is no longer being developed.
For a working demo, including onSelect / onDeselect events, animation effects, and more, see the FancyForm demo page.
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/mootools.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/moocheck.js"></script>checked and unchecked for checked / unchecked checkboxes respectively, and likewise use the classes selected and unselected for radio buttons that are checked / unchecked.
Expecting more steps? Sorry to disappoint ;)
Note: The FancyForm.start() function is called at the bottom of moocheck.js inside a window.addEvent block. If you're using the techniques described in this section, make sure you either replace this call or add the options to it.
FancyForm uses the ultra-lightweight Mootools JavaScript framework. Mootools 1.2 is included in the download for FancyForm with Element/Element.Style, Utilities/DomReady and their dependencies. You may want to download Mootools for yourself if you plan to use more of it's features in your website.
If you don't want to apply styling to every checkbox and radio button on your page, pass in an array containing the elements you want to style as the first argument for FancyForm.start() near the bottom of moocheck.js. For example,
var chkBoxes = new Array();
chkBoxes[0] = document.getElementById('fancy-box');
chkBoxes[1] = document.getElementById('other-fancy-box');
FancyForm.start(chkBoxes);Since Mootools is being used, you can also use the $$ function and specify CSS selectors, such as:
FancyForm.start( $$('#content .fancy-form input') );Leave this parameter or pass in 0 if you want the script to target all applicable checkboxes and radio buttons.
You can add additional inputs to be styled using the FancyForm.add function. This can be used, for example, if you dynamically create checkboxes or radio buttons.
The second argument for the FancyForm.start() function, if set, should be an object or array containing any extra options.
If you want to change the classes used by FancyForm, you can set the options onClasses and offClasses.
The following configuration is used by default if nothing is specified:
FancyForm.start( 0, {
onClasses: {
checkbox: 'checked',
radio: 'selected'
},
offClasses: {
checkbox: 'unchecked',
radio: 'unselected'
}
} );If a type of input (checkbox or radio) is omitted from onClasses, elements of that type won't be affected by the script at all.
In the following example, selected checkboxes will have the class f_checked and radio buttons won't be styled by the script (as they're omitted).
var f_onClasses = {
checkbox: 'f_checked'
}
var f_offClasses = {
checkbox: 'f_unchecked'
}
FancyForm.start( 0, {
onClasses: f_onClasses,
offClasses: f_offClasses
} );The above is equivalent to:
FancyForm.start( 0, {
onClasses: ['f_checked'].associate(['checkbox']),
offClasses: ['f_unchecked'].associate(['checkbox'])
} );To make advanced styling easier, you can specify five extra classes to use. These go in with the second argument under extraClasses:
For example, the following will apply a class "fancy" to all elements targeted by FancyForm:
FancyForm.start( 0, {
extraClasses: {
all: 'fancy'
}
});Use 1 or true to apply all the default extra classes, which is equivalent to using:
// setting extraClasses: 1 is the same as using...
FancyForm.start( 0, {
extraClasses: {
checkbox: 'f_checkbox',
radio: 'f_radio',
on: 'f_on',
off: 'f_off',
all: 'fancy'
}
});Note: FancyForm checkboxes inherit onclick, onmouseover and onmousedown events, so these will continue to work as normal. The hooks specified in this section complement these events and allow for finer control.
If you'd like to execute a javascript function each time a button is checked, use the property onSelect in the options. For example, the following will display an alert with the name of the selected checkbox:
FancyForm.start( 0, {
onSelect: function(chk){
alert(chk.inputElement.getProperty('name'));
}
});Note the use of chk.inputElement to access the actual input element.
You can also execute code when a checkbox or radio button is deselected (unchecked) by using onDeselect. Here, the animateCheckbox function is called:
FancyForm.start( 0, {
onDeselect: animateCheckbox
});
function animateCheckbox(chk) {
var el = chk.inputElement;
console.log(el.getProperty('name')+' deselected');
doSomeOtherThing(el);
fadeOut(el);
}Firstly, make sure you've actually applied some styles for the FancyForm classes (see How to use).
If you have any other JavaScript on your site, check if you're getting any Javascript errors. If there is an error, it may give you an indication about where the conflict is occurring.
Don't forget, the script degrades gracefully on old browsers like Mac IE5.
element.checked = true work?After changing a checkbox's state, update the display by calling FancyForm.update(element.getParent()) (where element is your checkbox).
For compatibility with MooTools 1.11, make the following changes:
Find all:.combine(
Replace with:.merge(
Find all:.get('tag')
Replace with:.getTag()
Nothing. You may use it in any way you wish, as long as proper attribution is provided. A link to my site would be appreciated.
Please note that I am no longer working on FancyForm. However, you can email me at .
Documentation, CSS and Javascript files are available at Codecanyon.net for a small fee.
Get your copy now!
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If you have your media sets configured correctly, then you will usually find that your backup-to-disk folders remain a constant size. In some circumstances you may need to remove some backup-to-disk files in order to free up some space. Deleting backup-to-disk files from Backup Exec is a two-step process, as you will (usually) want to disassociate Backup Exec from any backup-to-disk files before you delete them. This is so that if you come to restore data the catalogs are correct, and don't mislead you in to thinking you have data available for a restore which has been deleted.
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FestivalThe Imagine Science Film Festival (ISFF) is a full-fledged New York Science Film Festival, who's objective is to showcase films that effectively incorporate science into a compelling narrative while maintaining credible scientific groundings.More
Film LabThe Film Lab is a new ISF project that turns the science lab into the film studio, bringing scientists and filmmakers together in a unique and mutually educating way. More
Supporting ISFThe imagine Science Film Festival is coming this October! Please help us close our budget gap so we can bring you the latest inspiring and exciting science films! Plus we've got popular T-shirts and awesome posters designed exclusively for ISF!More
Submissions: ClosedSubmissions to the 2010 ISFF closed August, 30, 2010. We’re delighted to report that the Festival has attracted an impressive number of submissions! If you submitted a film, please be aware that final programming decisions will not be made until mid-September.More
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Submissions to the 2010 Imagine Science Films Festival are now closed as of August, 30, 2010. We’re delighted to report that the Festival has attracted an impressive number of film submissions from all around. If you have already submitted your film to the festival, please be aware that final programming decisions will not be made [...]
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At the 3rd Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, we will announce the launch of the ISF Film lab and its first participants, The Film Lab is a new ISF project that turns the science lab into the film studio, bringing scientists and filmmakers together in a unique and mutually educating way. For application guidelines, please [...]
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by Imagine Science Films is a new type of art product that will stand at the intersection of video, photography and painting. Select videographers around the world will record macroscopic or microscopic life, for approximately two hours. Pick a spot, preferably with little to no trace of humans. These pieces will then be standalone art-works [...]
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Writer-director Diane Bell’s “Obselidia” has been named the winner of this year’s Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Special Screening at NYU Film School as part of the annual Sloan Colloquioium. Followed by a Q & A with Diane Bell and moderated by Alexis Gambis, founder of Imagine Science Films
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June 11th, 2010
The search is over. Many have heroically tried. But a decisive winner has emerged.
Behold! the most elegant and usable conference badge design ever:
This badge is from The Web and Beyond 2010, held in Amsterdam two weeks ago, where I spoke and saw many excellent sessions.
Let me explain the mechanics of this great design:
Lanyard: The lanyard is nothing special — a branded ribbon with a simple clasp at the end. As far as I’m concerned, the lanyard is interchangeable. Irrelevant, in fact: you could use a metal chain, a hemp rope, whatever. That’s part of the awesomeness of this design.
Graphics: The first name is big so you can say “Hi Christopher”, and the last name and company/affiliation is a little smaller. The same information is printed on both sides. I imagine the text could be a little bigger all around for readability’s sake.
Booklet: Here’s where it gets really clever: The “name tag” is actually the cover of a little booklet. The booklet’s cover, as you can see in the picture, is printed upside-down from the contents of the booklet itself, so that the badge wearer can flip the book up to read the contents. The lanyard attaches to the booklet using “loop staples“, the same staples that hold the book together, thus requiring no additional hardware and, even better, no plastic sleeve. I’ve seen plenty of attempts to make badges with little pockets for holding a conference booklet, but this unified solution blows those ideas away.
It doesn’t hurt that the 35-page booklet contained great facilities maps, a full schedule, and biographies and photos of all the speakers. The covers were color-coded, too, with different colors for attendees, speakers, and staff.
Of course, not every conference can afford all of the bells and whistles on display with this badge design, but it’s easy to see how the basic principle — a book on a hook — can work for smaller budgets. For example, the custom-printed attendee-name covers could simply be blanks on which stickers are affixed. The booklets could be briefer, focusing on just the schedule, for example.
Conference organizers: Please steal this idea!
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your kind remarks. I was one of the volunteers on the conference team and we have put considerable effort into the design of the badge, so I’m glad to see you like it.
In the design, we were keen to minimize the effort of taking a quick glimpse at the program, so we quickly figured plastic sleeves were a no-go. We were a little concerned that this would cause the badge to wear out quickly, but that seems to have gone alright.
As for the type on the cover: here we had to accommodate for the longest names in the registration database. Unfortunately, I think that left most people with a little too much white space on the cover.
On a side note, although I don’t have the exact numbers, I think we were able to produce the badges for around 2,5 to 3 dollars each, which includes the custom lanyard.
Anyway, thanks again for mentioning the badge design and, of course, for your great talk at this year’s conference.
cheers,
Nick
Hi Chris:
Actually we did almost exactly that for our UXLx (User Experience Lisbon) Conference Badge that took place last May. You can see a picture of the front here: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4055/4631481685_e602ccd2bf_b.jpg The I’m looking for part was to put up to four stickers from some sheets we gave everyone. You can see them here amongst the entire swag we gave every attendee: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/4655685369_b8f9d51a42_b.jpg The idea is that people could say I’m looking for a job, love, friends, etc. There were also some design your own.
The label as you can see puts emphasys on the first name, the last names goe below and to the write people could use the space to write their twitter handles or other stuff. Below is the name of the company and some numbers we used to check registration info for workshops for instance. The number with a black background was a surprise and was used to raffle off a lot of prizes at the end.
The badge was a Moo postcard that was then laminated and a hole punched on top. There were two identical stickers on the front and back with the persons name and on the back there was also a tiny version of the entire programme printed upside down. You can see the full badge design here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/171054/UXLX-Badges.pdf (note the way coffee breaks and lunches are put on the side). The colour codes are to differentiate the types of talks and workshops.
Excellent post, I also really loved how the lanyard ensured easy reading of the extremely small print. :-)
Tweet-and-photo: http://www.twitter.com/pieterj/status/15170027012
Hi Chris,
I really enjoyed your presentation about the Human Interface, it really opened my eyes as a student/interaction designer. The next day i immediately looked for it on slideshare. I noticed the little books the moment we got them too, other conferences i went to weren’t this smart.
Anyway, thanks for the inspiration and i’ll hope to enjoy you again.
cheers,
Jeroen ( @Jrnbs )
June 19th, 2010 | 5:35 amHi Chris,
Thanks for the response to our booklet! Just as Nick I was one of the volunteers for the conference team. Some remarks. Hope others can benefit from this extra info:
We started off with the concept of the “book on a hook” and thought of many different possibilities. We added the omega-staples and the flipped cover in the process and were very curious for the response!
We printed everything very last minute (after the registration closed) so we could personalize the booklets. (We were planning on stickering only last minute attendees, but something went wrong with the blanco booklets.)
I think the costs are hardly any higher than printing “normal booklets” + “normal badges” in plastic sleeves. Nicks estimate is about right: Around € 1,85 per personalized booklet and € 0,75 per lanyard (excl. VAT).
The design of the booklet was what took most of our time, but since we are all volunteers, we did that for free :)
We had 5 differently coloured badges: Press, sponsors, speakers, team, visitors.
The booklets were about 8xm x 10cm. Next time, we would make them a little bit bigger to accomodate bigger type. As Nick said, we had to make the longest name in our database fit.
Credits where credits are due: Me and the rest of the team were helped by my friends at Napulè (http://www.napule.nl/) for the concept and XXL Press (http://www.xxlpress.nl/) for the printing.
Thanks again for your nice words and your talk at the conference!
Erwin Elling (@erwinelling)
June 21st, 2010 | 8:50 amHow did the booklet hold up over the few days of wearing it? I’ve thought about doing a similar thing, but I’m not convinced it won’t wear badly over a couple of days and end up looking tatty and falling apart.
July 3rd, 2010 | 6:59 pm@Donna: It was a one-day conference, but I can assure you the booklet would easily endure a week-long conference without a problem. They used pretty heavy stock paper, which helped a lot. It wouldn’t look so good after being soaked in beer or barbecue sauce, I suppose. :-)
July 8th, 2010 | 3:51 amHi Chris,
A very similar idea was used at Facebook’s f8 confrence in April 2010. It is almost the same design with arguably better typographic treatment for name cover. They also have a slightly different solution to attaching the lanyard through a circular hole in the booklet.
You can read in-depth coverage on the f8 badges in this article - http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-design/designing-f8-part-2-of-5-badges-booklets/410651332792
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La dernière version de Yahoo! Messenger vous permet d’envoyer des SMS sur les mobiles de vos contacts et de recevoir leurs réponses. Il vous suffit d’avoir leur numéro de mobile. Mais ils doivent disposer d’un abonnement avec l’un des fournisseurs de téléphonie mobile :
Vous pouvez envoyer des SMS de différentes manières. Voici deux possibilités :
Dans le menu principal ou dans une fenêtre de Messenger :
Modifier vos détails de contact :
Si le nom d’utilisateur ne comporte pas de numéro de mobile, vous ne pourrez pas lui envoyer de SMS. Lorsque vous ajouter des numéros de mobile, vous devez également inclure l’indicatif du pays. Voici une liste des plus courants :
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Adobe Illustrator is a fantastic application for crafting typographical masterpieces. However, whether you’re creating a simple paragraph for a print ad or a complex typographical piece of art for a website, there are several tips and techniques you should know for how to manipulate type within the program.
Below you’ll find a brief overview of some of the basic commands you should familiarize yourself with as well as some must-know keyboard shortcuts and even a few obscure features that you may not even know exist. Let’s get started!
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Before we get into how to specifically use Illustrator to work with typography, it’s important to discuss the basic terminology that we’ll be using. Most print designers learn these terms in the very beginning of their education but web designers often skip what I’d consider to be the ABCs of design and go straight to learning how to take designs from Photoshop to HTML.
So for anyone just getting started or anyone who has been designing for years but skipped over the basics, here’s a quick and dirty crash course on a few variables you should know when working typography.
The image above points out several key terms you need to know. We’ll look at each of these in-depth as we discuss how to use Illustrator to manipulate them but for now you should simply make sure you understand each term.
Kerning and tracking control the horizontal flow of a block of type. Kerning refers to making adjustments to the spacing between two specific letters. Tracking is similar but adjusts the spacing between all the letters in the block simultaneously.
Similarly, leading and baseline shift control the vertical flow. Leading adjusts the spacing between two lines and baseline shift allows you to move specific letters up and down.
Each of these corresponds to a setting that can be either manipulated directly or adjusted incrementally through the character palette.
Whether you’re designing for print or web, I highly recommend ditching Photoshop for crafting typography. Photoshop is great at a lot of things but working with type is not one of them.
Not only is Illustrator much more powerful and flexible when it comes to type, it’s a whole lot prettier too. To see what I mean, consider the screenshot below.
This is a side-by-side comparison of two windows that I had open, each with a similar block of copy. The left shows the Photoshop preview and the right shows the Illustrator preview. As you can see, Photoshop is choppy and ugly while Illustrator is smooth and beautiful.
Photoshop will show you a decent preview at 100% (Command+1) but at almost any other zoom level the text looks like crap and is not at all a good indication of what your final output will look like.
Illustrator on the other hand is brilliant at displaying vector graphics at various levels of zoom (way zoomed out it gets a little messy but still better than Photoshop).
Why kern? The biggest rookie mistake you can make with typography is to assume that Illustrator, Photoshop, or any other app will spit out perfectly spaced type by default.
Unfortunately, the peculiarities and unique qualities of each font cause perfect letter spacing to be quite difficult to hard program into software. A good old fashion pair of human eyes is simply the best tool at your disposal for making these adjustments.
Consider the example below:
The example on the top is the way Illustrator places the text by default and the example on the bottom shows the same example with some manual kerning adjustments. I purposely didn’t highlight where the adjustments have been made so you can learn to spot the areas that need addressing.
One of the most important places to keep an eye on is the spacing between uppercase and lowercase letters. Letters like “V” that don’t make a nice block shape are particularly bad and almost always have to be adjusted to avoid awkward spacing.
Kerning might seem ridiculously meticulous and not worth the effort, but it’s absolutely something you should be paying attention to as a designer. It’s one of those things you can go your whole life without noticing but once you finally see the light you’re ruined. You’ll start mentally adjusting the kerning in restaurant menus and on billboards and bus advertisements.
The other one that you might be wondering about is baseline shift. Surely there are no practical reasons to mess with the baseline shift of a letter, right?
As we can see in the image above, there’s at least one extremely common necessity for applying baseline shift. The default superscript action often results in a seemingly gigantic registered trademark or copyright symbol. Though this can be adjusted in preferences, it’s still going to be necessary to make manual adjustments to the size and baseline of the character in most cases.
Here’s the fun part. You may know many of these from your work with Photoshop but a refresher is always good. I’ll be using the Mac keyboard shortcuts here so PC users should keep in mind that Command = Control and Option = Alt.
To adjust the kerning between two letters, place your cursor between them and use the Option key in conjunction with the left and right arrows.
To adjust the tracking, you use the same keyboard shortcuts that you used with kerning, only here you make a specific selection and the adjustments will be carried out uniformly across all of the selected characters.
You can either select specific characters as in the shot above or simply click on the entire block with the direct selection tool to adjust everything within.
You guessed it, leading is the same keyboard shortcut as the previous two but this time using the up and down arrows instead of the left and right.
Here you can select either the entire block or just the lines you want to adjust.
Baseline shift throws a curve ball by adding the shift key into the mix. Select a letter then use the shift key plus the up and down arrow keys to adjust the height.
For some reason, many people are still under the impression that Illustrator can’t handle multiple columns of type. The truth is, it has had this functionality for years and is pretty decent at it.
This is where the InDesign crowd jumps out of their seats and demands attention. Yes, InDesign is amazing for page layout and hard to beat for complex multi-columned arrangements. However, this isn’t an Indesign tutorial so I don’t want to hear any complaints.
To create multiple columns of text in Illustrator, simply create a text box, fill it with text and go to “Area Type Options” under the type menu.
Here you can set the number of columns and rows, adjust the width and the gutter, set the flow of the text and more. The result is a single text box that automatically flows your type across as many columns as you want. The result will update live as you change the size of the text box.
Illustrator allows you to save the attributes of your text in a reusable style. This is perfect for those times when you frequently work with multiple brands and need to quickly change between the styles outlined in their respective brand guidelines.
Creating character and paragraph styles is as easy as setting some text the way you want it, selecting it, and then hitting the “new” button in the character or paragraph style palette.
When you want to apply this style to another piece of text, select the text and then click on the style that you just set up. Double clicking on the title will allow you to rename the style.
To set up tabs in Illustrator, hit Command+Shift+T and bring up the tab palette. Here you can drag out tabs just like you would in most text editors.
You’ll notice that the floating tab palette is a bit annoying and hard to position. To fix this, select the text you want to adjust and hit the little magnet icon on the far right. This will automatically line up the palette to the text and make it a lot easier to correctly setup your tabs.
In Illustrator, the Eyedropper tool is much more than a utility for color sampling. You can also use it to quickly match styles between elements.
For instance, if you create two blocks of copy, style one, then want the other to match, select the non-styled version and then eyedropper the styled version to quickly make them identical.
By holding shift down, you can sample just the color without grabbing the associated styles. If you have no selection, eyedropper the text style you want to duplicate, then Option-Eyedropper other text objects to apply that style.
Finally, double-click the eyedropper in the tool palette to adjust what is and isn’t copied over in the sample.
Illustrator has one of the best find and replace utilities that you’ll find in any app. In fact, it beats that of every dedicated text editor I know of (found under the Edit menu).
The reason for this is the little flyout menu that contains all those little things you always want to find and replace but don’t know how. This includes forced line breaks, tab characters, thin spaces, etc.
Illustrator even allows you to quickly find and replace fonts. Just click on the “Type” menu and go to “Find Font…”
I could talk about Illustrator type tips for days but the above represents a good overview of the information necessary to get started.
One of the main purposes of this post is to really encourage all the dedicated Photoshop fans out there to give some of the other Creative Suite applications a shot. Illustrator may seem like it’s only useful to gifted artists, but in truth it’s perfect for any vector-based work you need done whether or not you are a skilled illustrator.
Leave a comment below and tell us your favorite Illustrator type trick. There are plenty more to choose from and I hope to learn a thing or two from your responses!
Thank you for sharing. I’ve been using Illustrator for Web Design for years. Learned something new here. Keep the Illustrator tutorials coming!
I didn’t know those type-related shortcuts, just tried them out in Illustrator and they are very very helpful and precise, thanks :)
This is a great tutorial that you have made here. I am pretty much an expert regarding Adobe Design products, but I didn’t even know that you could hold option and the up and down arrows for kerning and tracking. That is much easier than clicking the arrows in the panel or dialing it in. Very cool indeed. Although, I don’t design a lot of type inside of Illustrator.
JB says: If your work requires text integrated with pixels, do you save outlines in Illustrator and bring into Photoshop?
Very detailed tutorial, I am new to illustrator and this is really going to be a great help :)
Joshua Johnson says: @JB, actually I’m a big fan of vector smart objects. I often build something in Ai, copy it, then paste it into PS as a Smart Object so it remains full editable and can be scaled to any size.
I agree with @Carreer Outlook. I, too, am fairly new to Illustrator. Well kinda. I didn’t know about the type shortcuts for tracking, kerning, and leading. Now I know!
And the eyedropper in Illustrator was a little different from Photoshop.
Thank you!
Sandy says: “Reset Kerning/Tracking: Command + Option + Q”
DIDN’T WORK!!
Joshua Johnson says: Sandy, it definitely works for me (I just double checked.) If you have your cursor between two letters it resets kerning and if you have letters selected it resets tracking. Try making a selection, hitting option right arrow a bunch of times, then hitting Cmd-Opt-Q to see the result.
I’ve loved Illustrator since Illustrator 1.1.
I once did an entire 132 page Annual Report completely in Illustrator because I hated Quark so badly.
This is a very detailed post and very informative for those that are especially new to typography.
I used to work in Illustrator a lot and never realised that there were so many shortcuts just for typography! Although I have had to create things in columns I actually never knew you could do this in Illustrator. I will be referring back to this post in the future and defiantly making a note of all those shortcuts. Thanks for the post!
Espen Irgens says: Nice & thorough guide. I especially appreciate how most of these shortcuts work the same in Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop, and to a limited degree, Flash and even QuarXPress.
You may want to include Command + shift + J for Justify with last line aligned Left.
Not all commands are the same on other language keyboard layouts, such as > & < to increase/decrease font size. This in general applies to most shortcuts using keys other than a-z and 1-0.
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Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is.
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Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge:
By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little:
By the time you finish high school, you know a bit more:
With a bachelor's degree, you gain a specialty:
A master's degree deepens that specialty:
Reading research papers takes you to the edge of human knowledge:
Once you're at the boundary, you focus:
You push at the boundary for a few years:
Until one day, the boundary gives way:
And, that dent you've made is called a Ph.D.:
Of course, the world looks different to you now:
So, don't forget the bigger picture:
Keep pushing.
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It's sixteen pages, saddle-stitch bound and in full color.
It's a good gift for new students, the recently defended and relatives thereof.
Why genetics research?
If you zoom in on the boundary of human knowledge in the direction of genetics, there's something just outside humanity's reach:
My wife and I chose to start funding these graduate students after we learned that our son has a rare, fatal genetic disorder.
It may be too late for my son, but it's not too late for other children.
Even one child suffering is one child too many.
The only way to end this kind of suffering is science.
And, the best way to do science is through graduate students.
bxCarousel is an advanced, yet easy to use jQuery carousel plugin.
Features:
All plugins developed by: Steven Wanderski
Interroger d’autres utilisateurs de Messenger
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#example1').bxCarousel({
display_num: 4,
move: 2,
prev_image: 'images/icon_arrow_left.png',
next_image: 'images/icon_arrow_right.png',
margin: 10
});
});
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#example2').bxCarousel({
display_num: 3,
move: 1,
auto: true,
controls: false,
margin: 10,
auto_hover: true
});
});
bxCarousel must be applied to an html unordered list like so:
<ul> <li>first piece of content</li> <li>second piece of content</li> <li>third piece of content</li> <li>fourth piece of content</li> <li>bxCarousel can accept an unlimited number of elements</li> </ul>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('ul').bxCarousel({
display_num: 4, // number of elements to be visible
move: 4, // number of elements to the shift the slides
speed: 500, // number in milliseconds it takes to finish slide animation
margin:0, // right margin to be applied to each <li> element (in pixels, although do not include "px")
auto: false, // automatically play slides without a user click
auto_interval: 2000, // the amount of time in milliseconds between each auto animation
auto_dir: 'next', // direction of auto slideshow (options: 'next', 'prev')
auto_hover: false, // determines if the slideshow will stop when user hovers over slideshow
next_text: 'next', // text to be used for the 'next' control
next_image: '', // image to be used for the 'next' control
prev_text: 'prev', // text to be used for the 'prev' control
prev_image: '', // image to be used for the 'prev' control
controls: true // determines if controls will be displayed
});
});
Compared with other bookmarking tools, Diigo enables you to do so much more. Period.
Compared with other information management tools, Diigo is differentiated by its focus on e-reading.
Simple jquery plugins can enhance and beautify HTML form elements, these simple jquery scripts turn a simple HTML website to a fantastic look and feel. These plugins can be enabled very easily. In this roundup I have gathered most beautiful Jquery plugins that are related to all kinds of form validation. This list also includes roundups of some blogs. Go ahead and enjoy
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