Web Designing: 2014 / 5

2014 / 5 vol.154

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Features & Special Reports

Feature 1: 24 Posts to Make the Production Process Efficient

Tools & Services Carefully-selected by Web Creative Bloggers

There are definitely a lot of people who read Web creators’ blogs daily and are provided with useful information on Web production. While there’re many useful and cheap, or even free, services and tools for site production, it’s pretty hard to make a comparative review of them. Then, which ones do the bloggers, who manage Web creative blogs and have a high sensitivity towards such information, find useful? They made recommendations on particular tools and services that make their everyday work and production process more efficient. Please make use of their knowledge to improve the quality and efficiency of your Web production!

Feature 2: Business Support Application Case Studies

The Current Status and Possibilities of the Rapidly-expanding B2B Application Market

In the era where smart devices have become mainstream, their demand, which was originally anchored to consumers, is now widening in appeal to the realm of corporate business. While consumer-driven applications (B2C) are already in a state of saturation, application developers have started to pay a great deal of attention to business-driven applications (B2B). What kind of issues do Japanese corporations have and what types of applications do they want? How can we discern the in-house demands of those corporations and find ways to work for them? In this feature, we gathered actual examples of numerous fields from the clients’ standpoint, and interviewed the clients on a variety of perspectives, ranging from the reasons why they installed particular applications to how they chose their ordering priorities, and to what they expect from applications. In near future, you might be able to apply their opinions in your career.

Flash Report! Our Fukuoka Relocation Plan 2014 in TOKYO Report

Presentations and Talks on “Living” and “Jobs” that Support the Relocation to Fukuoka

After the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, for creators, “where and how to work”came to have as much significance as “what to make.” Hosted by Fukuoka Prefecture with the Smart Design Association and Web Designing as organizers, “Our Fukuoka Relocation Plan 2014 in TOKYO” was held on March 29th 2014. This event was organized with the aim to support “the relocation from Tokyo to Fukuoka,” a plan that has garnered much attention of late under a cooperative work between the state bureaucracy and the private sectors. This is our report on this enthusiastically-received event.

WF Inside Story

Unique E-commerce Expressions that Web Magazine “honeyee.com” Offers

“honeyee.com” and “.fatale” are Web magazines that continue to provide information on Tokyo fashion with high-quality visuals, wining support from fashionistas. They recently launched an e-commerce site, whose implementation was done by Aratana Inc., that provides Internet shopping sites with specialized services. It is always flooded with requests from across Japan despite its location in Miyazaki. While it already deserves attention that honeyee.com and Aratana teamed up, this new site itself is apparently quite unique, consisting of expressions that think outside the box of e-commerce. We delve into exactly what happened through the amalgamation of media and an e-commerce site.

JUST LIKE HONEYEE

Portrait -Web Craftsman's Portrait-

TOKUI Nao (Qosmo)_Challenges of the Overlap between Reality and the Virtual that a Doctor of Engineering Faces

What happens if a virtual space infiltrates the real world? What if information of the real world is brought to a virtual space like a computer? A doctor of engineering TOKUI Nao of Qosmo loves music and has excited the world with his many ideas. Now his creativity is about to break new ground.

Nao Tokui

TSUKURUHITO

SASAKI Ken (Tea Master)_Refining Tea, and Creating Flavor and Scent

The profession of “tea master” is said to stretch back to the Muromachi Period. After graduating from college, SASAKI Ken became a cook and made a career in the food industry. Then he made a transition to the world of tea as if to be guided by his fate. Enamored by tea, Sasaki worked in earnest to learn the subject and, just a few years later, saw himself win the best award twice at “World Green Tea Contest” hosted by World Green Tea Association. He now garners attention both in Japan and abroad as a regenerator of the industry. What does a tea master do exactly? Sasaki guides us through the profound realm of his profession.

CHAKUMI

Monthly Focus New!

A Code Sharing Service that Returns Execution Results in Real Time: “CodePen”

Starting this month, “Monthly Focus” will cover tools, applications and Web services that come handy for Web production. We place a special emphasis on points that Web creators are curious about and investigate. In this first installment, with the focus on code sharing services that have been established as a form of Web service, we introduce the internationally popular “CodePen.”

BiND7 Guide for the creators New!

First Half: The Real Capability of New BiND with Drastically-improved Design Features

“BiND for WebLiFE*” is a Web authoring software that can easily construct a Website through template-based customization without dealing with HTML or CSS. In the wake of the release of a new version “7” (BiND7) in March 2014, we focus in on the evolution of BiND7 in this and coming issues. The first half focuses on new features and their strongpoints.

Running Stories

Web Designing Lab.

JavaScript Lab._Let’s Understand the History API of HTML5
Text: KODAIRA Asami / KIMURA Takuya (ENTACL GRAPHICXXX)

Flash Lab._[HTML5 Authoring Edition] Implementing Interactions for Mouse, Touch, and Keyboard
Text: OKI Yoshiya

movement

(Event & Artist introduction)

Choco Banana Planning Session

Going Public in the Next Issue “Venture Summit!”

Worldwide Creator's Archive

GrupoW_Wanna be Enthralled by Mexico’s Identity!?

GrupoW

WD Website Front

100 Tokyo, FACT 15TH ANNIVERSARY WEB SITE, Rumba 800 Series Special Site, ROPÉ PICNIC, books+kotobanoie, Yahoo! JAPAN “Three Years Since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake: Connecting for the Future”, DRIVE-GO-ROUND, Kenzo – No Fish, No Nothing, Search for 3.11, and more