2013 / 3 vol.140
1,470 Yen
Features & Special Reports
Feature 1: Responsive Web Design Template Recipe
Basic Designs and Variations to Start with
“Responsive Web Design,” which was introduced in 2010, suddenly became huge last year due to the dissemination of smartphones and tablet devices. While Responsive Web Design is not a panacea for multidevices, given that devices will become more and more diversified in the future, it can serve as a reasonable solution. However, if you try to construct a Responsive Web Design site from scratch, it requires a surprisingly large amount labor. This feature provides you with Responsive Web Design templates in several patterns and explains how to use them. You can use them either as they are or as parts to combine with others. Please make a good use of this knowledge as a base for Responsive Web Design production.
Feature 2: How to Draft a Plan for “Career Advancement”
What You can and should Do to Become Who You Want to Be
What do you think you will be like 10 years from now? What are the things you should be thinking about for your career advancement? There is no sole answer for it, for everybody has completely different goals. That is why we have to take our time and contemplate on this question. We provide you with some directions for the future in this feature.
Introduction to Web analytics for Web Creators New!
Why is Data Analysis Necessary for Web Creators?
Text: OGAWA Taku
This serial explains how to look at Web analysis data and key points of analysis method. We focus on the necessary points that Web creators, who are not used to dealing with data, would want to get familiar with. Through understanding the way to decipher analysis data, we aspire to achieve evidence-based Web production.
Put in Practice! BiND6 Special Lecture New!
First Half: Focusing on New Features including the Customization of Edit Mode
“BiND for WebLiFE*” is a Web authoring tool, which allows the user to easily produce a Website without HTML tags or script description. Its newest version “6” (hereafter, BiND6) just recently launched with a bunch of notable features that make its implementation to the client environment easy. Over the course of 2 months, we will look into how BiND6 comes in handy in practice. The first half focuses on new features of BiND6.
Come in! Come in! - Shanghai Style Production Site
Some Shanghai Creator’s daily life
While we’ve been featuring Japanese creators who found their ways into the Shanghai scene, this time we would like to introduce a certain Chinese creator’s daily living. How close is it to the image you’ve created of the Chinese?
Portrait - Web Craftsman’s Portrait -
MODEKI Ryuta_The Ever-expanding Occupational Field and the Possibilities of Web Art Directors
MODEKI Ryuta, who turns 37 this year, has been working in the Web industry for 17 years. He’s an art director, who presides over design studio “TWOTONE” and has been a leading figure of the Web scene. We close into the “portrait” of MODEKI, who has handled major projects like “Yubin-nenga.jp” and “Hoshinoya Kyoto/Taketomijima” to name a few.
TSUKURUHITO
SEKIGUCHI Kotaro (Contemporary Artist)_Genes of Arts and Crafts
“Ginza,” “packing tape” and “newspapers.” While it’s such a strange combination of words, it immediately made sense when I saw the work. With compelling impact brought by its size and volume, and a dense structure reminiscent of steampunk, this work is comprised of various motifs interlocked with each other. Packing tape that presents enchanting texture? We interviewed a contemporary artist SEKIGUCHI Kotaro, whose work is currently on display at “ELTTOB TEP ISSEY MIYAKE” in Ginza.
WF Inside Story
The Appeal of ”TokyoOtakuMode” that Achieved the Greatest Number of Fans on Facebook Japan
On January 25th, the number of users of “TokyoOtakuMode” exceeded a record-breaking 10 million fans on Facebook Japan. Providing information on Japan’s otaku culture abroad, they have drawn a huge following in various countries. Now with their original site launched, they are expanding the range of activities. How did they achieve this much popularity? We talked with Ataka Hajime and Ishigami Akira from Tokyo Otaku Mode Inc., who operate the site.
Yoshimoto × Web Designing “Choco Banana” Planning Session
KAWASHIMA Akira (Kirin) × SHIMODA Tetsuya (BURG HUMBURG BURG)
This installment’s collaboration is between Kawashima Akira (Kirin) and Shimoda Tetsuya (Burg Hamburg Burg). Having produced interesting sites one after another, Shimoda launched a comedy portal site “Omocoro,” while presiding over a company “Burg Hamburg Burg.” What will collaborative creation by these two “comedians” be like?
Running Stories
Web Designing Lab.
CSS Lab._Manipulating Display Using display Property
Text: KASAI Shinpei (Coding Factory)
jQuery Lab._’Main Visual’ with Active Elements
Text: HAYASHI Yutaka, OOTA Tomoaki, HAYASE Yuka
Flash Lab._Performing Optimization with Adobe Scout
Text: IKEDA Yasunobu
movement
(Event & Artist introduction)
Worldwide Creator's Archive
Chris Milk_Pursuing Non-egotistical Supreme Visual Expression
WD Website Front
Form Follows Function, SHIFTBRAIN Inc., ELI, au FULL CONTROL TOKYO, FELISSIMO 500-color Color Pencils, Mitsubishi Delica: D5 Clean Diesel, SCANNER, Find Your Way to OZ, and more
one's view
An Ordinary ‘Monster’
Text: SHIMIZU Qanta
LINE POP - iTunes App Store
LINE POP - Google Play
How Much Can You Create Using the Same Package?
Text: OYAMADA Sachiko
Help Remedies
Love at First Equation
Text: OHBA Shunsuke
Facebook XL'perience by Heineken
How to Make Holy Ground Online?
Text: HAYASHI Tomohiko (nuuo)
nicest place on the internet
Making a Mark on a Ruler
(Tota Hasegawa Visual Essay from "tomato interactive")
Text & Visual: HASEGAWA Tota
The Secrets of Digital Marketing
Introduction, Development, Turn and Conclusion are not Necessary for Display Ads
TEXT: OHTA Kenji
From the Data of Web Designers Report: "The Landscape of this Job"
Can We Do Anything if the Economy is Good?
Text: KOIZUMI Shinya
Social Seeds
“On Demand Delivery Service” that You can Request Using Smartphones
Text: NOZAWA Tomo (nitenichiryu)
Mobile Service Front Line
Zaim_Housekeeping Book Application with “Beginner’s Usability” in Mind
Text: NAKAYA Kenichi
News Crawler
(News)
WD Reviews
[Perfect Effects 4 Free]
Hagihara Research Institute
Japan, a Country with the Shortest Social Media Contact Time
Text: HAGIWARA Masashi
Exonemo’s “Touching the Web”
Vol.17 Serial BOT Project Vol.5 “Crash Course on Quotation”
This time, sentences will be created using only quotes. BOT is getting smarter!
Manga AC Club Activity Daily Log
#22 “A Mysterious Ninja Appears!”
This time’s theme is on the “fiascos” inherent in creative work. AC Club will teach you the “magic formula of fiascos.” Is there such a thing really?
Others
List of Web agencies from all over the country
Monitor & Present
WD Square
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