2012 / 7 vol.132
1,470 Yen
Features & Special Reports
Feature 1: Collection of Good Templates for Site Design
Various CSS Designed by Creators+JavaScript Layouts
When designing a Website using HTML＋CSS and JavaScript, its layout is determined to certain extent depending on the format and elements of columns. Sometimes wouldn’t it be sweet to have templates to use as a base of the design or to look at as a sample book to draw ideas from? In this feature, we introduce 14 exclusive templates with layouts created by our favorite Web designers, along with several expressional variations for each template. They are good to go for a commercial use and come handy for all kinds of situations. Moreover, by giving a glimpse into templates, you will learn how the creators write codes and work on their designs. Please read, download and utilize these templates.
Feature 2: Tumblr Site Construction Complete Guide
You Can Create a Full-blown Site with HTML/CSS Customization!
Wanna make a small-scale site quickly? While there are frequent updates, it’s hard to tackle the customization of WordPress. Though social aptitude for communication is desirable, Twitter is too bland. In such cases, you should take advantage of Tumblr. High modifiability and information-carrying capability of Tumblr make it its own, different space from other blog services and SNS. Another cool feature of Tumblr is that it provides a considerable and free Web design opportunity through the use of HTML and CSS. Here we present a Tumblr customization guide, which will become handy it’s time to launch a bunch of Tumblr sites by corporates and known figures.
movement Special Edition
A Full-scale Attraction Using Kinect “Mirai Senshi”: A Report from Seibuen Amusement Park!
This March, a new attraction “Tatakae! Daisakusen Atra: Mirai Senshi –Fight! A Special Mission Atra: Future Warriors–” was launched at Seibuen Amusement Park in Tokorozawa, Saitama. This is a role-playing attraction in which the participant, as a protagonist, beats the game by tackling multiple missions along the way. In fact, the battle game, which takes place in the final stage, was created by Kyoto-based designers 1→10 Design using Kinect for Windows＋Flas. Since it would be foolish not to take advantage of this opportunity, we trucked over Seibuen one sunny day in May!
Collaboration Project “Choco Banana”
Call for Entries! Looking for Artist Creators
We are calling for creative collaboration from amongst you readers. Please let us know have recently come up with a “This is it!” kind of contents designs or if you are up for developing a project like that in the future.
WF Inside Story
Perfume’s World Strategy by Open Source Project
On the global site of a popular techno-pop unit Perfume, things like motion-capture data created from their dance moves, free track materials made by their producer Yasutaka Tanaka, and various source codes to utilize those materials are distributed open source. A wide array of movies made using these data has already been released online, creating a big buzz especially due to the enjoyment in the actual process of making and viewing these works. While it must have been tough to clear the artist’s copyright, why and how did they decide on launching such an unprecedented promotion? We talked to the planner/producers of the site Daito Manabe, Satoshi Horii and Hiroyasu Kimura of Rhizomatiks and Shoji Inoda of Perfume’s record label Universal Music.
Portrait - Web Craftsman's Portrait -
HANAI Hiroyuki, KURIYAMA Jun (S2 Factory) / Cultivating the History of Web Advertisement from Server Room
This session we interviewed a development company S2 Factory. As a group of technicians who design and operate back-end infrastructures, they have been supporting Japan’s creatives for over a decade, and earing a great deal of their trust. While their work often takes a backseat role in the Web scene, they have gone through a series of the same challenges that confront front-end web workers.
TSUKURUHITO
SUZUKI Yasuhiro (Artist) / A Way to Discover Inspiration
Known for a series of work including “Michi e no Hana –A Nose to Unknown” exhibited at the jetty in Yokohama, “Ship of the Zipper” launched as part of Setouchi International Art Festival, “Blinking,” “Air” and “Time,” contemporary artist Yasuhiro Suzuki has taken on a broad range of themes. Although at a glance, there seems to be nothing in common between these pieces, with a closer look, the viewer realizes that they all provide “ordinary” things within our daily lives in “a new point of view.” How do such unfixed, unconventional ideas come into being?
Exonemo’s “Touching the Web”
Vol.9: Role Reversal Edition
Finally Exonemo gave up on writing! For details, please check out the magazine!
Manga AC Club Activity Daily Log
#14 “Galapagosher”
Galapagos-esque creator unit AC Club proposes Galapagos-style cool designs. It wont’ be too bad to try some Galapagos-laden designs at times.
Running Stories
New Lab Launch: Web Designing Lab.
jQuery Lab._Inserting a Simple Photo Gallery
Text: TOKUDA Kazunori, TANI Hiroki
SmartphoneLab._Learning Smart Phone-chic Techniques by Implementing Flick on Your Own
Text: Coding Factory
FlashLab._Techniques to Produce a Video from fla
Text: IKEDA Yasunobu
Adobe CS Lab._Workflow for Prototype Design New!
Text: HIGUCHI Yasuyuki
Server Quick Reference
(Usage of Hosting Server)
Text: INOUE Satoshi
movement
(Event & Artist introduction)
Worldwide Creator's Archive
Goodmorning Technology / From Copenhagen to the World
WD Website Front
(Pick up new-arrival Web sites)
ECLIPS LIVE FROM FUJIYAMA by SOLAR POWER, Kamikiri Houcho (Paper Knife), ASAHI DRY ZERO GOLF, UDS Ltd. Corporate site, Dazaifu Tenmangu, Darts ni Shiyagare!, NIKE Better World, and more
New Author: one's view
“Technology that Shows Us Dreams”
Text: SHIMIZU Qanta
The Story of Send / Google
“Scheming Database”
Text: HAYASHI Tomohiko（nuuo)
Don't date him girl (Facebook)
“zip, zip, zip!”
Text: TANIGUCHI Akihiko
1MB zip
“Possibility of Games Seen Through WebGL×Baseball Board Game” New!
Text: HARA Kazunari
Hachamajor League
Making a Mark on a Ruler
(Tota Hasegawa Visual Essay from "tomato interactive")
Text & Visual: HASEGAWA Tota
Mobile Contents Front Line
iQON：“Pivot” from PC Optimized to Mobile Optimized Service
Hop, Step, JavaScript! –Learning the Program’s Basics from Scratch–
“Computations” that Can Make Multiple Versions with Only One Command
From the Data of Web Designers Report: "The Landscape of this Job"
Should We Search for the Uniqueness of Web in Fukui?
Text: KOIZUMI Shinya
Tachibana School
Interpreting “Bounce Rate List as an Improvement List”
Text: TACHIBANA Mamoru
Social Seeds
“Imaginary Showcase” Service that Allows Individuals to Sell and Purchase through SNS
Text: NOZAWA Tomo (nitenichiryu)
News Crawler
(News)
Hagihara Research Institute
Questioning Japan’s Low Relative Percentage of Chrome Users
Text: HAGIWARA Masashi
Others
List of Web agencies from all over the country
Monitor & Present
WD Square
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