You assemble 8 more days to submit your memo in recompense for our Typographic Layout Design Contest. The aim of the argument is to congregate gorgeous typographic (X)HTML- and CSS-based layouts, created during you, and conserve them in recompense for impromptu as a backsheesh to the Web adventurousness community.
So during the course of the cut off, singular 12 entries assemble a veracious soil unresponsive in our conserve grow, which resolve be published at the inauguration of July.
The winners of the argument resolve be round-the-clock during the Smashing Magazine Editorial Team. So, you quiet assemble a cogent contemplation of friendly inseparable of our prizes and showing crazy what you are efficacious of on the shroud incorporate ease out of Smashing Magazine!
Of clearly, as at all times, we assemble sundry prizes in recompense for our participants. Each champ resolve let in a accolade, such as The Typographic Desk Reference, a immediate mention cicerone of typographic terms and classification, with definitions of may be seen up and convention in recompense for Latin-based journalism op-ed article systems. Written and designed during Theodore Rosendorf.
Handy in recompense for the desk, the TDR contains a thousand facts on typography.
Content is majesty, as we be informed, and typography is an extraordinarily important means in recompense for designers to convey their dispatch to their audience effectively. And sporadically it’s your equip to may be seen what you are efficacious of using these tools. Recently, we presented an overview of productive typographic CSS tools and 8 basic ways to enhance Web typography.
Rules
To participate, gratify arise these steps:
Come up with an earliest, gorgeous, easily settled and easy on the eyes typographic Web adventurousness.
Code your own (X)HTML+CSS-based adventurousness on this guide. (You may eat grids or vertical rate if you scarcity to, but you don’t assemble to.)
Download our uncomfortable guide. (You may eat JS-libraries or any other JavaScript, but you don’t assemble to.
But gratify do not subsume commercial fonts in your templates, because the templates resolve be released as impromptu downloads at the cessation of the argument. Pure (X)HTML and CSS is admirable.)
Feel impromptu to eat important appearance replacement techniques, such as sIFR, sIFR Lite, cufon, FLIR, the @font-face assign, etc.
Make effective the adventurousness works in current browsers (Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 7+, Opera 9.6, Safari 3.1, Google Chrome, etc.).
Once your guide is unharmed:
Create a full-screen screenshot of your guide.
Make effective your cryptogram passes the W3C validation check. (The Fireshot Firefox capacity ascendancy expropriate with this.)
Pack entire end (screenshot and template) in a ZIP pigeon-hole. mainly
Please magnificence your report, your website’s URL and the domain you are from.
Send your ZIP pigeon-hole during email to: templates@smashingmagazine.com
with the obedient to tailback [Typography Contest] Your_theme_title. If conceivable, gratify also subsume a bluff breed of the ideas that were the driving power behind your adventurousness.
Deadline
We’ll carousal on all designs that we let in during the 30th of June.
Be inspiring, eat unexpected techniques, develop detail your skills! Do whatever it takes: we Non-Standard real scarcity you to bolt along about wrought up in the precincts this.
The in the most auspicious procedure entries resolve be published in a report after the argument has ended.
All templates resolve be released in recompense for impromptu download and resolve be in the precincts to eat in recompense for impromptu, without any restrictions whatsoever (and you resolve be credited in the conserve grow, of course). The winners resolve be announced in a report after the deadline as expertly. You may subsume at most inseparable glue to your plat in the footer of the guide. However, the adventurousness should be redone and designed specifically in recompense for this argument.
How Do I Get Started?
You can adventurousness any tender-hearted of (X)HTML+CSS guide you scarcity: in recompense for any blog, portfolio, corporate website, outcome incorporate ease out, coming-soon incorporate ease out, sponsorship incorporate ease out or any other incorporate ease out.
Of clearly, you be appreciative assemble the copyright of the adventurousness and the cryptogram.
To start you crazy with a a couple of of ideas, here is a showcase of some oner typographic layouts that assemble been designed during the course of the at the label end some months.