With Readymag’s annual Projects of the Year award fast approaching, we decided to turn to one of last year’s winners, Brazilian art director André Mezzomo. We wondered how the victory affected the social cause of his project MyLinkIsYourLink and how entering professional competitions can be beneficial for designers.
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We’re unveiling a bunch of small, but helpful updates to our Text widget. Let’s get to it!
T for Text
The text widget now has a keyboard shortcut. Access it by pressing T — just like you do in most graphic design software.
Non-printable characters
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Now when you click on any widget in the Mobile viewport, it will load a Desktop Keyhole — a window where you can check out the desktop version of your widget. This allows you to control the look of the Desktop version of the widget, while editing properties in the Mobile viewport.
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Readymag users can now add shadows to most widgets. The full list of widgets with a shadow option includes Shape, Picture, Button, Text, Form, Hotspot, Slideshow, Video, and E-commerce.
You can alter the direction of the shadow, as well as its blur quality and color. Three preset interactive effects are available: load shadow on hover, relocate on hover, and relocate on scroll.
These settings can also be made global so that all the widgets in your project show a consistent shadow.
As for text shadowing, note that you can activate different settings for each part of the same text widget.
Check out how to use the feature in our Oracle Cards of Design Manifestos.
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If you’d like to try out new Readymag features before everyone else, apply to become a beta tester.
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Every design decision is made on behalf of end users. Designing the web — a medium for communication and a social space at the same time — it is our responsibility to think carefully about how our choices impact the person on the other end of the conversation. …
The Shots widget will now allow you to upload a sequence of images, instead of a video. This can be used to control animation frames more precisely or to create transparent Shots (with the help of transparent PNG images).
The frame order will reflect however the files were sorted on your computer. Images will retain their original size and resolution. You can upload PNG and JPEG files.
For the Mobile version of Readymag projects you can now choose from three types of mobile layout:
— Auto layout (arranges all widgets in a single column, each will fit the viewport width with 20px margins and 20px spacing between widgets).
— Fit to mobile (resizes all widgets proportionately to fill the mobile viewport).
— Desktop layout (everything looks as it would on a desktop display).
Note that these options can also be set for any selected widgets or widget groups, allowing you to lay out mobile variations with only a few clicks. Simply select the relevant layout type for each widget or group.
Learn more in our Help section.
If you’d like to try out new Readymag features before everyone else, apply to become a beta tester.
Design digital publications and websites with Readymag.
These two updates will help protect your Readymag account.
First, you can now enable two-factor authentication for your account. Enter the Settings menu from your Profile page, toggle ‘Two-factor auth’ and follow the instructions. You will be prompted to download a security token app for your phone.
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