Feature 1: Making a Site More Exciting with “Scroll Magic”

A Pleasant Surprise Brought by the Widgets of JavaScript and Parallax Effects

Recently, as you scroll through websites have you noticed pleasantly surprising productions? In this feature we explain “Scroll Magic, widgets that operate interactively with scroll movement and introduce actual examples. This is the must-read feature on site design for Web designers, who want to incorporate some widgets to HTML design, who want to start JavaScript, and for whom the term “parallax effect” rings a bell.

Feature 2: Web Fonts on Parade

Web Typography using CSS: Following European Fonts, Now is the Time for Japanese Fonts to Blossom!

Starting last year, a wide array of Japanese Web font services like “FONT+”, “TypeSquare” and Amana Images’ “WEB Font” were launched one after another, making most major Japanese fonts usable as Web fonts. Moreover, Web fonts are drawing more attention because they make character handling smooth and easy on HTML sites, whose demand has been increasing due to the spread of smart phones. In the future, site designs using Web fonts will become the norm in Japan. This feature introduces know-how on mastering Web fonts with real examples from both home and abroad.

New Author: one's view

• HAYASHI Tomohiko_The Enjoyment Before “Sharing the Everyday”

  

• TANIGUCHI Akihiko_Shangri-La of gif Animation

  

WF Inside Story

Producing a Web Specific Ornamental Value Using 10-tiered Zoom Display

The art unit Nerhol has produced numerous mesmerizing works using an original method of physically carving out their concepts on books. However, it’s difficult to clearly convey the uniqueness of their creations by simply featuring a photo online. Their Website solved this issue through the use of the 10-tier zoom display, providing the user with a Web specific experience. TANAKA Yoshihisa from Nerhol, and its producers TANAKA Ryoji and HAGIWARA Shunya talk about how their site was realized after a long period of trial and error.

Nerhol

Portrait - Web Craftsman's Portrait -

SAKO Minoru / A Maestro of “Direction”: Even His Demonstration Impresses the Viewer

Despite his mainstream success in Tokyo, SAKO Minoru has almost never made an appearance in the media. During the last few years, his name has been credited in Web Designing’s new site special almost every month. Yes, all the readers of this magazine have seen his work at some point. Let’s delve into the production philosophy of SAKO Minoru.

minsak

Dialogue: What Design Can Do

Dainippon Type Organization×NAGAHARA Yasuhito “Letters Where Meaning and Form Come in Contact with Each Other”

Letters always lurk behind the works of Dainippon Type Organization. These creatives have never failed to surprise the viewer with innovative ideas that include letters, which appear as kanji characters but can be read as katakana. With their 20th anniversary close at hand, we focus in on their history walking hand-in-hand with letters.

Dainippon Type Organization

Crash Course Serial: Jump into Metro!

Let's Jump into the World of Metro's UI on a Windows Phone
Let’s Develop Windows Phone Applications Using HTML Contents

This time, we offer explanation on a method to develop Windows Phone applications by reusing existing HTML contents. Project templates for development are available also.

Collaboration Project “Choco Banana”

It’s about Time to Unveil the Losers’ Calligraphy Project!

Started at the end of last year, the 3rd installment of Choco Banana Project “Losers’ Calligraphy” by Robert’s YAMAMOTO Hiroshi and PARTY’s creative director NAKAMURA Hiroki finally launched their site. We are happy to introduce this unexpectedly full-blown site!

Loser Dog Sho-do
Choco Banana

Exonemo’s “Touching the Webdefault” Vol.6

This time, Exonemo tackled graphics using “PowerPoint” as a design tool!? You must see their creation with your own eyes!

http://exonemo.com/wf/

Manga AC Club Activity Daily Log

#11 “A Muggy, Bustling Club Room without a Woman’s Touch”

This time’s theme is feminine beauty. AC Club can portray even “moe – infatuation”! They should be capable of doing it...right?

AC Club

New Lab Launch: Web Designing Lab.

CSS Lab._Let’s Learn the Basics of 3D Expressions Using CSS
Text: AKIBA Hideki

jQueryLab._Carousel UI with Practical Features
Text: TOKUDA Kazunori, TANI Hiroki, HASEGAWA Hiromu

SmartphoneLab._”Concealing Layouts” to Show More in a Smaller Area
Text: Coding Factory

FlashLab._Cross Platform-compatible Video Delivery
Text: OKI Yoshiya

Server Quick Reference

(Usage of Hosting Server)
Text: INOUE Satoshi

movement

(Event & Artist introduction)

Worldwide Creator's Archive

Neubau / The Continuous Search for a New Anchor Point

Neubau
Neubautonomy

WD Website Front

(Pick up new-arrival Web sites)
FIVE DOT ONE, Kyoto Cafe Style, UNDERCOVER, Google Music- Tour, Atarashii Jiyu.｜ au, K-SYSTEM ｜masayuki kurokawa, NIKE RUN / Imayori Maee, and more

New Author: one's view

“Half Time in Japan”
Text: SHIMIZU Qanta
Pelo

“The Enjoyment Before “Sharing the Everyday” New!
Text: HAYASHI Tomohiko（nuuo)
The Church of Kopimism, Japan Branch

“Shangri-La of gif Animation” New!
Text: TANIGUCHI Akihiko
gifpumper

“Battle against Your Peers Experienced in One Click”
Text: URANO Daisuke
FINAL FANTASY BRIGADE

Making a Mark on a Ruler

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

TSUKURUHITO

TAKEUCHI Taijin (Komadolist) / Frame by Frame, Work Your Way with Steady Steps

Taijin Takeuchi Website
kirameki inc

Hop, Step, JavaScript! –Learning the Program’s Basics from Scratch–

What are the Numbers of Pencils and Apples Held inside of a “Variable” Box?

Social Seeds

The Momentum to offer a New Value for Second Screen Thrives!
Text: NOZAWA Tomo (nitenichiryu)

ConnecTV

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

It Totally Makes Sense: The Similarities Between the Construction Industry and the Web Industry
Text: KOIZUMI Shinya

Tachibana School

Is a Facebook Page Necessary for Your Company Website?
Text: TACHIBANA Mamoru

Mobile Contents Front Line

Stulio: Technical Team Brings Forth a Start-up Mobile Venture

Stulio

News Crawler

(News)

WD Reviews

(Products Reviews)
[Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4]

Hagihara Research Institute

Search Engines Anticipate an Influenza Epidemic
Text: HAGIWARA Masashi

Others

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