We Love Brisbane – Website Design

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great apps such as Circles and Timista. Also we’re featuring the new SOUP website, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than happy to feature your site.

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You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe and include #abdz_sites in the message.

DESIGN / CSS

SOUP – soupagency.it

WeAreSoup. We create visual experiences. We care about details: from typography to illustration, passing through design and publishing. We proudly believe in a digital culture. We love our job.

Lend your leg – lendyourleg.org

Roll up your pant leg! Yes, together we are going to say NO to landmines.

APP / WEB APP / SERVICE

Circles – discovercircle.com

Connect with nearby networks you really care about.

Timista – timista.com

Timista finds venues and events that work well together – all of them within walking distance, at a price to suit you. Everything linked – perfectly. Because Timista works in real time – all the activities that are found will have definite availability too.

COMMUNITY / PORTAL / STORE / EVENT

NationalTraveller – nationaltraveller.com

NationalTraveller.com is a visual reference website comprising of what really excites and inspires us everyday. We love design, fashion, architecture, lifestyle, travel, photography but most of all we love to share inspirational things and excitement.

Roger Dubuis – rogerdubuis.com

Roger Dubuis manufacturers advanced, fine watches that use more than thirty original complications or grand complications.

STUDIO / PORTFOLIO / BLOG

Jean-Marc Denis – jeanmarcdenis.me

Jean-Marc Denis – user interface, experience, product and icons design.

Intellectsoft – intellectsoft.co.uk

We build software. Intelligently. Services we provide: mobile development, software development, web development and application marketing. Our team consists of over 120 fulltime IT engineers.

THEMES

Snippeta – themeskingdom.com

Snippeta is a WordPress theme that collect most valuable pieces of code you are using and can reuse in many times. With this theme you are avoiding wasting your precious time to write the same code again.

Vario – themeskingdom.com

Vario WordPress Theme is an incredibly various, flexible and professional WordPress theme. With Vario WordPress theme you will be able to handle different layout options so it can be used for any kind of business. You can change the look and feel of each page to your needs. Take a look at the demo site to get a better look and understand what Vario WordPress theme really can do.

A recurring problem when making sites fit in a narrow viewport is navigation. The most common approach on larger screens is to use a horisontal navigation for the top level items. Sometimes such menus are complicated/complemented by drop-downs listing sub-items, but I’ll leave that out of this post and focus on how to handle just the horisontal navigation bar.

Now, you could simply let the menu items wrap as they need to on small screens. In some cases that is a completely acceptable option, but often that can make the menu take up too much vertical space. One common design pattern (there are more, as evidenced by Brad Frost in Responsive Navigation Patterns) for avoiding that is to convert the navigation items into a select element on small screens. While doing so does save space and may initially feel like a smooth solution, there are a number of drawbacks, some of which Andy Clarke mentions in The select menu navigation pattern. I think there are better options.

I’ve always felt that using select elements for navigation is a bad idea, be it on the desktop, mobile, wide screens, or narrow screens. Form elements are simply not meant for navigation. So here is an alternative way of solving the problem.

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