Steve Workman's Blog

Designing for Touch

Over half of the UK population has a mobile phone, and there are 40 million active mobile devices. Of that number, there are about 8 million touch screen devices, with around half of that number being accounted for by the Apple iPhone. More than half of the new handsets being manufactured today have touch screen functionality, though no other single device has had the success of the iPhone.

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Debugging print stylesheets

Simple premise: web sites are designed for the screen, they are meant to be viewed through a computer and that’s about it. Still, most people want to print out a web site at some point and your design probably won’t look very good. Print media strips out all backgrounds and forces a page width so large fixed width sites simply won’t print all their detail.

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