| To all those who celebrate, and our friends who don’t… Merry Christmas!
This is traditionally a day where we give something away to everyone. (Software, ebooks, graphics, tablets, laptops, etc.) And this year’s not going to be an exception. Curious? You’ll need to practice some patience because this year we’re also doing something to benefit our fellow humans who really, really need it.
So we’re also giving you: The Gift of Giving. What does this mean? It’s a discount for you and a donation for others. Each time you use the CHARITY coupon code: - You’ll make your website and toolkit better at a 15% discount
- We’ll give 15% to a worthy cause—one of our favorites (read more here)
- You’ll help us make the tools you’re going to need soon (yep, they're responsive)
The code works on everything we have in store, software, themes, graphics, and books. Yep, this would in fact be an excellent opportunity to get the Superpack.
Below is a recap of some stuff we did way back in the Spring and part 3 of our responsive design article. Just don't forget to visit our store and go crazy with CHARITY.
Just after Easter, we released HTML Editor 12.6 and its fabulous Inspection Mode.. The New HTML Editor is Nailing It!
The web raved about what must have been the coolest HTML Editor release ever. Inspection Mode clearly nailed it and the compliments couldn’t have been sweeter.
Inspection Mode is a unique feature that combines a live updating preview and code selection. Browser plug-ins like Firebug and Web Developer were our inspiration when including this great time saver; however, the CoffeeCup editors are the only ones that currently offer this unique workflow right in your coding environment.
Instead of searching through the HTML code, you can now simply click a webpage element in the preview to see the corresponding HTML highlighted in the editor:
If you’ve ever wanted to learn to code websites, improve your HTML skills, or are simply in for a big time saver, this is your chance:
 Get the amazing HTML Editor (and do good with coupon code CHARITY)
Get the great Web Editor for OS X (remember, CHARITY does triple good)
Only a week later, we delivered a big update to Web Form Builder. This time we added payment integration, letting you turn forms into awesome mini-stores. Neato! Web Form Builder now generates cash!
A web form is the quickest, easiest way to make money anywhere on the web. And making embedable web forms happens to be a snap with Web Form Builder.
Charge a flat fee for event registrations. Let visitors check boxes next to items they want to buy. Sell music, t-shirts, crafts, services, and anything you can think of.
Be charitable first, then earn it back with Web Form Builder
Mid-June, we finished some huge updates to our web platform S-Drive. We were so excited about it (even though most of it is technical mumbo-jumbo) that we just had to brag. Our web platform is growing fast!
It makes hosting dead simple through integration with our apps, and provides all types of cool services. From web form processing to cool HTML5 albums and slideshows, S-Drive serves your needs.
There are three other ways you can support S-Drive’s growth: - Upgrade to a better plan: get a free domain name and access to Albums.
- Upgrade for free: get access to S-Drive Albums for a full month.
- Get the Total Pro Pack: 7 of our best apps with 3 months of top-tier web hosting.
Fun fact: The new Web Form Builder is a breeze to use, but most people had to get used to “floating” elements to position them. Now they’ve all got a head-start on RWD, where everything is relative. Lucky them!
Here’s your holiday gift: A highly-in-demand responsive form theme called “Hipster.” You can download it here. If you don’t have Web Form Builder, you can try it for free. Now all CoffeeCuppers can make responsive forms—the only people in the world who can! How Responsive Web Design Works
We’ve told you to get ready for RWD, and why it’s necessary. Now it’s time to explain how exactly it works. It’s two parts, really: You take a flexible foundation (everything is fluid, even images) and combine it with CSS3 media queries.
The flexible foundation means that the design is built not on fixed sizes, but relative ones. This means you don’t define sizes in pixels; instead, you define them in relative units, such as percentages.
Now why would you want to do this? Well, if you set your website to 1080 pixels wide, it will look great on a desktop computer. But on a small phone screen text will be unreadable or only a small part of the width of the website will fit on the screen at once! Things get smashed up or resize in weird ways and visitors have to constantly pan and zoom to navigate the site. You can’t just take a wide design in which 6 elements sit side-by-side and tell it to fill 98% of a mobile phone’s screen. That’s where the next ingredient comes in.
Media queries are a highly supported feature of CSS3 in which your code asks the device displaying it what the size of its screen is. Styles defined for the corresponding browser width are then used instead of the default ones. The defined width where one style sheet switches to another is called a “breakpoint.” Let’s take a closer look.
Your responsive site might have three sets of styles: One set for screens that have a width larger than 900 pixels, one for screens with a width of 480-900 pixels, and one for screens 480 pixels wide and smaller. When your site is loaded, it asks the device for the width of its screen and then uses the appropriate styles. The combination of a flexible layout with a more focused style sheet is precisely what we call responsive web design.
It’s less complicated than it seems, but we know making your site responsive can be intimidating. That’s why we’ve already released website and form themes that do the work for you, and there’s more coming soon. Stay tuned, and get pumped for 2013 and the responsive web! |
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