I have replaced a header logo image which was just text in an arc on the following website: Leeds Magic Circle
Disclaimer: I did not design or create this website I am just performing some small modifications to it.
The original image said "1919 - 2015" and needed updating, hence I chose SVG to replace it with a bit of javascript to update the date portion.
It looks good, however it doesn't scale down when the browser is reduced or viewed on a mobile device.
I need the SVG to fit the 800x116 which replaced the original image, but I need it to scale down too.
I am very new to playing with SVG and the answers on the web are somewhat confusing so hopefully someone here can help.
Also open to alternative methods to achieve this goal.
Thank you
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This is mainly a question about the quality of logos/icons used in Websites. I create logos/icons using Illustrator but when I see icons on professional websites (see image and links), they look crisp like a text, with no blurriness. The edges are very clear. For example, please see this image, especially the search icon and the menu list icon:
This is my own Blog that has bad icons, the Logo and the Menu icon. Both of them are PNG images.
This is Entrepreneur website with awesome menu icon and search icon. If you check the Inspect Element for mobile site, you'll see that the search icon and menu icon are not images (I don't know actually the reality). It is using a pseudo element. How does it work? Maybe this has something to do with quality.
Same is true with TimeofIndia website. Here the menu icon is made using hr tag, so it's obviously great, but still the search icon is beyond understanding as it is using a pseudo element.
And another scenario is related to this Business Insider website's technique. I've seen it at most of the websites, especially Facebook like sites. They use a single image for all icons. How's it possible? If you don't understand please visit this website and check the URL of the menu and search icon's image. How's it done?
So first I would like to know how these things work? How these icons render?
Secondly why I'm not getting the quality like them? Should I stop using images like them? I'm asking this because I've tried exporting in many ways using Illustrator, with same dimensions as required, but still quality sucks. If you can see, in my own blog's (Blog) mobile site, the middle horizontal bar is blurred despite the original image looks awesome before upload. Why is that?
I think these are too many questions. I would appreciate if you can provide suitable links to understand these things fully, if explaining them here is not easy.
Thank you.
If I could, I'd give #marc-b five upvotes :) The first step, before coming to SO, should always be trying to solve the problem yourself. Then you can come to us with an on-topic question. Here, that first step is to right click on one of the icons you're interested in, and choose "inspect".
There are a couple questions here: what are some ways of making crisp images?, and what's the deal with having multiple images in one file? Both of those are very Googlable, but I'll give you a head start:
Two common ways to make images crisp are:
SVG (vector graphics - as an Illustrator user you already know about the difference between those and raster graphics, and why they're crisp. If not, google "vector raster difference")
2x images - the technique here is to make an image twice the final display size, and then use CSS to shrink it down. The in-browser scaling will have a crisper result that just displaying a 1x image.
Having more than one image in one is called a "sprite." You can have a raster sprite or an svg sprite.
Here's an intro to svg https://css-tricks.com/using-svg/, here's an intro to sprites https://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/, here's an intro to svg sprites https://css-tricks.com/svg-sprites-use-better-icon-fonts/, and here's an intro to the latest thing, srcset https://css-tricks.com/responsive-images-youre-just-changing-resolutions-use-srcset/
I was wondering if there is an easy way to recreate the attached image using CSS3.
I've included this image as a page background but one of the senior devs told me there is an easy way to create this image background using CSS3.
I thought the background images can be done using CSS3 for repeatable patterns. But this image doesn't have any patterns that I could see.
Is that possible for this image?
I think this is interesting as experiment, but its not pragmatic.
You can convert an image to css here. PNGs work best.
Warning though, you will get tons of lines of HTML + CSS to create this image. It will come out pixel perfect though. I will also warn you that I tried uploading it to Jsfiddle, Jsbin and Codepen - all of them would just hang. Pen loaded and I couldn't save it since it's larger than 1MB.
This is what my text editor looks like with your image converted to CSS though.
This is just for reference. Yes, you can convert to CSS, but it doesn't mean that you should. I suppose it might be useful for things like email? But not for large images.
Cheers!
As a front-end developer, I've been given a mock-up design to implement. This design features several tachograph-style icons, which have me stumped as to the best way to mark them up in HTML and CSS.
The images look like the following:
Obviously these assets represent the empty state and the full state respectively.
My issue is this: how can I mark-up these images so that I can show varying levels of completion, i.e. 10% full, 60% full etc?
Waiting in anticipation to hear your answers.
I would seriously recommend looking into the Raphael javascript library. You can knock something like this up in just a few lines of code.
See also this question: Drawing a half gauge/speedometer (JavaScript Canvas or Java Swing Example needed) where I gave an answer including a four-line code sample using Raphael, which provides an animated fuel gauge. You'll need to tweak it for your design, but even then it's only going to be a few lines of code.
The great thing about using Raphael to draw things like this is that it is fully compatible with older browsers, even IE (as far back as IE6 if you need it), without you having to do any special code to support it. It's a great little library.
Hope that helps.
Given that the image reprisents actual data and isn't purely a design mechanism, I'd mark the image up as an HTML image.
<img ... alt="10%">
If your concern is about showing portions of the image, one way you could do this would be to set the image as a background to some container and use width and height to identify the amount of the image to show.
i'm not an expert on html5 /css3, but would you not use the html5 arc command to create a mask to reveal the full state.
As you have a 270 degree rotation from empty to full, you'd just map the value as percentage of 270 to create the value of the arc that would mask the appropriate value.
I believe that there is a java script Math.PI that might help to.
The designer I'm working with has given me a monster of an implementation issue...
Page background is grey, and atop of it is a crumpled paper texture (non-repeating with painted design elements) for the first 600 pixels (by 1400 pixels across; currently centered as a non-repeating background). At the bottom is another div with more text on it -- with a dropshadow, complex line pattern for the background and ripped edges, hovered slightly above the top div.
Saving the top part as a JPG and the bottom part as a transparent PNG leads to filesizes of +1mb.
Saving the top part as a JPG and the bottom part as a JPG doesn't work very well due to the drop shadow. It would technically work to save the bottom part as a slice with elements of the top part underneath the dropshadow, but it would have to line up pixel-perfect always or else look crappy. And at that point, I might as well save the whole site as one big image...
If the bottom part had a solid colour for the background, I could set each edge to have a different transparent PNG. However, the line pattern on the bottom part means that this wouldn't work.
My question is ultimately:
How the heck do people do ripped edges these days without making their site one big image?
Thanks!
Screengrab:
CSS3 does provide a border-image property, which should be able to help you with the ripped border effect (although even then, it would help if it was a repeating image).
See here for the W3 specification.
However it may not be much use to you, because browser support for this feature isn't great -- IE doesn't support it at all (not even IE9), and while most other browsers do support it, they all currently have gaps in their support and require a vendor prefix in the CSS property.
See CanIUse.com for a full browser support table for it.
To be honest, I think you should just go back to your designer and ask him to make it easier to work with -- he's probably just created something he thinks looks good, but is unaware of the limitations of the design he's put together; if you explain the issue to him, he may well be able to produce something a bit more usable for you.
There's really not a whole lot you can do here.
Page edges are ideally seamlessly repeated via repeat-y, and in your case it looks like the texture is one big image. You're either going to have to settle for sub-par performance or present the designer with your issues.
Check the archive of this blog for a good example.
You either have to fix the background images and use the entire image (or the top image AND the bottom image) and make the background non-scrolling. OR you have to get him to design a pattern that can repeat and then use a smaller PNG.
Clearly, your designer has a print background....
Ok, there's ways that will most likely theoretically work. But theoretical isn't always practical. I suspect your desire is to have cross-browser capability, as all of us should. So, start by throwing most new CSS3 tricks out, thanks to legacy IE. Forget box-shadow, forget crazy png tranparencies without hacks, etc.
What you're left with is doing a gigantic .jpg background. That will load....eventually.....
In this case, you can see the storm on the horizon, so run for cover. Go back to the designer, explain why this is about as smart an idea as texture layered over gradients, and help them understand why our buddies at Microsoft have made this virtually impossible. Just like a fully-flashed out site, it can be done somehow....but it's probably not the best use of time and resources. The web isn't print, it's dynamic...and when you put something "on a page" it's not going to stay put as it would in Illustrator, nor can you guarantee that your user is going it experience it in 100# glossy with a metallic overlay. Yes, I was a designer before I was a developer.....
Sound like a cop-out? Maybe it is. But I've been in your shoes, building sites for credit cards. My team was forced to waste thousands of dollars of the bank's money trying to make sites work with designs that probably shouldn't have been done on the web, thanks to print designers doing double-duty, getting designs approved prior to talking to the tech team....after, of course, we presented management with the options. Ultimately, it got the boss fired for going over budget.
although this is untypical, I would recommend cutting a big square shaped hole in the center of the image so that you're only left with the edges themselves and a transparent center and saving to PNG. Then saving the center part itself as a jpeg and putting the jpeg directly on top of the PNG in the correct position.
This way, the majority of the very large PNG will contain very little data and be a very small file size. The rest of the data would then, obviously, be jpeg and therefore smaller.
I got my colleague's web page together with and the css files and many images. I need to apply part of it to my jsp page. I have to admit that I didn't have any experience in handling css. Currently I am using GIMP2 to edit those 1-pixel-width background images. It's really the pain in the neck. I have to guess the proper image size, crop it a bit, then view it in the jsp... Do you have a better way to edit those 1-pixel-width images? Thanks in advance.
You might want to look into using Firebug add on for Firefox. There you can tweak the height of the graphics while looking at the page (yes, you need some knowledge about the DOM, CSS and Firebug to fully get this, but it's worth learning). Once you're happy with it, you open up your image editor and crop the image to that height.