Feature 1: jQuery Techniques: Learning from Prior Examples

Now Standard, JavaScript Library! Explained by the Creator

5 years from the first release of the RTM and after numerous releases of plug-ins, jQuery with well-developed derivative software has become de facto standard of JavaScript Library. How to use jQuery, rather than whether to use it, has become the most relevant question. However, sometimes it's difficult to fully utilize the potential of jQuery because of its multifunctionality. In this feature, the creator of jQuery explains various techniques in using jQuery on popular sites.This information could provide a helpful reference for your future site production.

Feature 2: Web Designer’s White Paper 2011

Expensive? Cheap? How to Make Estimates?

In the February issue this year, we featured “Thorough Survey into Estimates”, which received great feedback. There seem to be a lot of creative people who have a hard time figuring out what their creations would be worth monetarily. Through interviews with production companies, we will reconsider how to write estimates and how to come to a price decision that makes both parties happy.

dotFes 2011 Kyoto Report!

• dotFes: School Festival for Web Creatives

  dotFes 2011 Kyoto Report!

  

  A school festival for Web creatives “dotFes2011 Kyoto” was held at Kyoto Seika University on October 16th. Drawing on a range of activities from lectures by top creators to art installations, this feature reports of this event filled with cutting-edge of Web creation.

  

  dotFes

• Collaboration Project “Choco Banana”

  Future Comedy that “Instant Gag Creation Device” Aims for

  Yoshimoto’s work (or rather “comedians”) participated in dotFes 2011 Kyoto as well. The title of the exhibited piece is “Yoshimoto Style Instant Gag Creation Device”. Here is a commentary on the piece.

  

  Choco Banana

• Manga AC Club Activity Daily Log

  #7 “dotFes Inside Report”

  AC Club, which was in charge of the main visuals of dotFes 2011 Kyoto, gives an inside report of the festival in manga format. Well..., no one from the editorial desk saw the AC Club members at dotFes actually but...

  

  AC Club

Special Report: Opera Software Head Office @ Norway Travel Report

Press Event “Up North Web” Report

On October 9th, the press event “Up North Web” hosted by Opera Software was held in Oslo, Norway. We bring to you this event along with a glimpse of the city of Oslo. Since we managed a visit to the head office of Opera Software, we also show you tons of photos and the interviews with their workers.

Up North Web 2011 | Opera Software

Focus On: The Present State of Japanese Web Font Service

Know-how and a Few Words of Caution on Mastering Web Fonts

While Web fonts have merits, which are advantageous like SEO, for site operators and users, what sorts of merits can they provide with Web designers? Are there any changes in terms of the production flow? In this feature, we introduce remarkable domestic and international sites created with Web fonts with the focus on know-how and possible flow changes.

Web Font Design Award 2011

Dialogue: What Design Can Do

HISHIKAWA Seiichi × NAGAHARA Yasuhito “Art of Setting Things in Motion, Art of Letting Things Stand Still”

A visual artist Hishikawa Seiichi’s solo show is now being held, introducing photographs that reflect his personal life. To coincide with the exhibit, this two-person dialogue zeroes in on his early years in New York and the roots of his creative approach, while also sharing feedback on his show held last year in Kyoto.

Zatsubun Note

Exonemo’s “Touching the Web” Vol.2

“This draft came out fast because it’s a one-shot deal!” That's because Exonemo sent us only this one-page JPEG file...

http://exonemo.com/wf/

New Lab Launch: Web Designing Lab.

• Smartphone Lab._Learning the Standard Setting Pattern of “viewport” NEW!
  Text: Coding Factory

  

• CSS Lab._Beautifully Graded Buttons Created by CSS
  Text: AKIBA Hideki

• jQuery Lab._jQuery Official Plug-in “jQuery Templates”
  Text: TOKUDA Kazunori, TANI Hiroki, HASEGAWA Hiromu

• Flash Lab._Let’s Use the SWF→HTML Conversion Tool
  Text: IKEDA Yasunobu

• Graphic Lab._Creating Graphical Area Maps
  Text: TAKIGAMI Sonoe (cyan,inc)

Server Quick Reference

(Usage of Hosting Server)
Text: INOUE Satoshi

movement

(Event & Artist introduction)

Worldwide Creator's Archive

Mekanism / Promotion that Never Fails to Have a Sense of Humor before Accomplishment

Mekanism

Website Front

(Pick up new-arrival Web sites)
au 2011 Fall-Winter Models Real Experience Demo, JOURNEY INTO CLOUD, YouTube SPACE LAB with Lenovo, and more

New Author: one's view

• “Social Game Uber-Cutting Edge” NEW!
  Text: URANO Daisuke
  Adventure World - An Indiana Jones Game

  

• “Wilderness as Far as the Eye can See”
  Text: SHIMIZU Kanta
  Toylets

• “Never Forget Where You Started from”
  Text: SO Yoshihiro (coconoe inc.
  KernType, the kerning game

• “A Ploy to Carry on to Social Media”
  Text: KAWAGUCHI Satoshi
  Roxy Pro - Opération Orange Facebook

Making a Mark on a Ruler

(Tota Hasegawa Visual Essay from "tomato interactive")
Text & Visual: HASEGAWA Tota

TSUKURUHITO

NISHI Tatzu (Artist) / Get Out of Where You Are!

tatzunishi.net

Hagihara Research Institute

Japan’s Smart Phone Users in Comparison to World Users
Text: HAGIWARA Masashi

From the Data of Web Designers Report: "The Landscape of this Job"

Let’s Think a bit More about Estimates

Web Standards Plus

W3C Launches “Testing Activity”
Text: YAKURA Masataka (Mitsue-Links)

CSS Test Suites

Social Seeds

What is the Beautiful and Innovative Facebook New Service “Timeline”?
Text: NOZAWA Tomo (nitenichiryu)

Facebook Timeline

Tachibana School

The Category that Continually Expanding “Web Production” Signifies
Text: TACHIBANA Mamoru

WD Reviews

(Products Reviews)
[3D Invigorator v5 for Photoshop]

News Crawler

(News)

Others

List of Web agencies from all over the country
Monitor & Present
WD Square
Back Numbers