Posts from 2012

UM Departments Lede Image

Scalable Navigation Patterns in Responsive Web Design

Michael Mesker | Apr 25, 2012

The subject of navigation in responsive Web design (RWD) is both exciting and challenging. Best practices are emerging for smaller, boutique-style sites, but for sites with larger anatomies, it’s still the Wild West, especially when it comes to migrating legacy information into a new design.

illustration by Michael Mesker

Multi-headed Drupal

Larry Garfield | Apr 9, 2012

One of the strengths of Drupal is that it can be used to manage multiple companion sites. And in true Drupal fashion, modern Drupal has several different options available for users looking to run a series of Drupal sites together, each with its own trade-offs.

An illustration alluding to the concept of breakpoints

Re-thinking Breakpoints in Responsive Design

Patrick Grady | Feb 3, 2012

As someone who’s been thinking about responsive design theory and building fluid CSS grids with media queries for the last six months or so, I began to notice that I was spending a lot of time and effort massaging my media queries to get things to scale nicely.