2014 / 3 vol.152
1,470 Yen
Features & Special Reports
Feature 1: Mastering Parallax!
From the Working Basics to Offerings of its Commercially-produced Templates
Having emerged around 2011, Web designs incorporating parallax effects have now become a basic technique, generating new parallax expression based renditions. This feature explains the fundamentals of parallax expression using basic samples and provides you an opportunity to reaffirm the “underwork of parallax.” Moreover, by grasping parallax in the wider sense, we provide parallax site templates that include not only parallax effect but also scroll-driven renditions. These templates can be used commercially, so please make use of them as a base for customization.
Feature 2: Web Copywriting that “Strikes Home”
The Mechanism of Creating Words that Go Right to People’s Hearts
“Blurbs” play a significant role in attracting people’s attention, growing their interest in products, and encouraging them to visit places. They take a variety of forms of expression for daily-use products and services in the world of Web as well as various other media such as film, magazines, and commercials. While the direction of blurbs change according to who the target audience is, there is a common key to creating blurbs that “strike home.” In this feature, professionals from the Web industry along with other fields share their techniques for creating good blurbs. Their expertise should come in handy for your Web production.
[Focus On] It’s Not Too Late! Cloud-based Services Make This Year’s Tax Return Easy
Taking a Stab at a Blue Return Using Much-talked-about Cloud Accounting Services
This time of year makes freelance Web creators feel down and heavy. Yes, it’s time for final tax return. With the use of much-talked-about Cloud accounting service, however, complicated accounting processes become much easier. Let’s try blue return using Cloud accounting this year!
Knowhow For Using Windows Azure Web Site
Understanding Specialized Cloud Service for Site Construction through WordPress Migration and Operation
Website production using Cloud services might make you feel that the bar is a bit too high. Recently, however, there are services that offer interfaces you can use easily without specialized knowledge or skills. Among them, “Web Site,” offered by “Windows Azure” operated by Microsoft, is a highly valuable Cloud service for Web creators. We introduce the utilization of this “Web Site” for keeping track of how to operate and migrate WordPress site from a rental server to Windows Azure. Moreover, in order for the user to learn the convenience of the Cloud and utilize it fully, Web Designing launched creator’s support project, where you can get a ¥5,000 Amazon gift card by registering for a Windows Azure free trial! Please take a look at “Windows Azure & WD Project” special site for more details.
WF Inside Story
ESCAPE JOURNEY_Google Street View Incorporated a “Getting Lost and Finding a Way Out” Game
As a campaign site for NTT docomo’s new service “Overseas 1-day Packet,” a new game that incorporates Google Street View has just been launched. In this game, a yellow human-shape icon “Pegman,” which is used on the Street View display, plays the protagonist, and the participant of the game takes a guess on overseas spots where Pegman got lost. Even without a special reward of entering a trip abroad giveaway after playing the game, its elaborate rendition and sophisticated concept engrosses the user. Producers of this entertaining site share with us behind-the-scene stories.
TSUKURUHITO
TEZUKA Shinri (Candy-smith)_A Man Who Brought Innovation to the World of Candy Making
A craftsman, who creates a variety of shapes with scissors out of one-inch diameter hot candy in an instant – that’s a “candysmith.” While Tezuka Shinri is in the limelight as a much-talked-about candysmith, the reason for this popularity lies in his art of making highly realistic forms with his deft hands in just three minutes or so. With his self-taught technique, Tezuka has succeeded in bringing candy making to another level while carrying on the tradition of the craft.
Choco Banana Planning Session
Backstage of the Choco Banana Festival! Vol.2
The second half of two-parter, the Choco Banana Festival backstage report introduces three presentations. We reveal everything from that technology which astonished the whole world to never-before-disclosed ideas!
Come in! Come in! - Shanghai Style Production Site
Everyday Life of Japanese Creators Living in Shanghai
At the time when China-Japan relations seem to have worsened with Particle Matter Pollution and issues surrounding the Senkaku Islands, what are Japanese people’s daily lives like? This feature introduces day-to-day living of Japanese creators who work in Shanghai. In fact, they are leading lives pretty similar to those in Japan. Rather, you might be surprised to know how enjoyable it is to live there.
Mobile Service Front Line
FoodLog_Recording Meals with Photos. Life Log Application that Utilizes University-originated Technology
Text: NAKAYA Kenichi (trimtab japan)
“FoodLog” is a life log application that photographically records each meal. This application not only archives photographs of meals but also “visualizes” them by estimating calories. This feature of calorie estimates was realized through the collaboration with a university lab. Academic-industrial alliance and mobile services might in fact be compatible with each other.
Running Stories
Web Designing Lab.
CSS Lab._CSS Smart Coding that You Want to Learn by Spring
Text: KASAI Shinpei (Coding Factory)
JavaScript Lab._Actualizing Seamless Page Transition Using pjax.js
Text: HAYASHI Yutaka, BEHARU Takayasu
Flash Lab._[HTML5 Authoring Edition] Words of Caution for Contents Production
Text: OKI Yoshiya
movement
(Event & Artist introduction)
Worldwide Creator's Archive
ultranoir_A Work is a “Vessel”
WD Website Front
Carré Noir, Tokyo Gas: Mask of Gas SWAN LAKE, KIRIN DREAM RACE, Menicon – Miru, MANUEL RUEDA, NIKE FEEL LONDON, sweetsatelier From the Field of TOKYO, 2014 Winter | UQiYO, and more
one's view
New Homework for the People of Japan
Text: SHIMIZU Qanta
My Disney Experience - Walt Disney World
The Origin of Adoration
Text: OYAGI Tsubasa (SIX)
The Sound of Taste
A “Helper” Service that Expands the Image of Travel Destination
Text: ABE Jyunya (1PAC)
My Dream Catcher
Secrets to Making People Unable to Take Their Eyes off of Something
Text: TODOROKI Keisuke (ADC Plus)
Geox - Amphibiox
Tour De Graphique - A Challenge in the Time of One CD -
Vol.12: On-magazine Live Collage Using “Resolution”
Text&collage: KAWAMURA Kosuke
Web Font Design Case Study
“Character Fill” that Further Improves Quality
Text: YAMADA Kosuke (PETITBOYS)
Social Seeds
A Play-Screen Live Streaming Service that Game Makers Cannot Miss
Text: NOZAWA Tomo (nitenichiryu)
Ideas for Local Creatives
Why Do Creators Converge on Fukuoka?
Text: SUGA Daisuke (Smart Design Association)
From the Data of Web Designers Report: "The Landscape of this Job"
Can an Idea be Proportional to the Distance You Travelled to It?
Text: KOIZUMI Shinya
Introduction to Web analytics for Web Creators
Needs for People who are Conscious of Both Analysis and Production Sides
Text: OGAWA Taku
The Secrets of Digital Marketing
The Dignity of Digital Marketing
Text: OHTA Kenji
News Crawler
(News)
WD Reviews
[GifCam 3.1][EmEditor Professional]
Hagihara Research Institute
The Not Necessarily Blessed Internet Environment of Japan
Text: HAGIWARA Masashi
Exonemo’s “Touching the Web”
Vol.29 Serial Borg Series EP.9 “Melancholy Game”
Manga AC Club Activity Daily Log
#34 Are You an Artist or Designist?
Others
List of Web agencies from all over the country
Monitor & Present
WD Square
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