Keep up with the latest news and developments around responsive design and the new direcitons that web designa and development are taking.
This article takes you through the logic behind creating a class for every CSS property to allow you to really customise each of your elements on the page. Essentially it’s atomic CSS, and while I’m not a fan I think it’s good to be aware of all approaches to building sites.
Šime Vidas runs web platform news and has recently been redeveloping the site. The update is lightning quick with great content, and in this article he describes the top 5 suggestions he has after building the site for performance.
I love the idea of a low powered web page and a solar powered server. Looking at this example it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary that this is the kind of resource that we’ll need when colonising Mars. The web would be a valuable resource, but I envisage it being more like the earlier […]
A cracking list of suggestions from TJ Fogarty about how to get the most out of your site when it comes to performance when launching or reviewing a website. I’m currently looking at expanding upon the Am I Responsive tool to also incorporate performance metrics about the site that people are reviewing. While the tools […]
Getting started with HTML, CSS, and JS is one thing, but putting those files onto a server with a domain name is something else. This post from Chris Coyier covers off those kinds of questions. I remember back in 1999 when I had my first ‘proper’ job. I was an administrative assistant at the Northern […]
In Jeremy’s very good book on Service Workers (it’s actually about going offline, but there’s a main role for service workers as the lead actor) he shows the feature detection way in which you call a service worker. He also covers a future-friendly way, which seems like it might never see the light of day […]
After switching to AMP pages there were some issues with the conversions. A coincidence? Potentially, but there are a few issues that are pointed out around implementing AMP that I wasn’t aware of in the past.
Last week we spoke about the latest release of Chrome and the new approach to avoid loading javascript on pages that are being requested over a 2G or slower network. This week, Tim Kadlec has done a whole bunch of research around this. The article explains how you’re able to set your browser to emulate […]
There are a lot of really cool techniques you can apply these days for some interesting art direction on the web, this is one of my favourites at the moment because it really allows us to break out of traditional boxes
Shape outside and clipping paths are going to make the rest of the web designs for this year and into 2019 look a whole lot better. We haven’t gone there yet, but I can see a magazine style layout that has more art direction start to become a trend shortly.
Chrome 69 is released as Google Chrome turns 10. I remember seeing the ads in the London Underground for this new browser from Google and I made the switch from Firefox immediately. It’s funny that 10 years later I’ve left Chrome for Firefox, who knows what the next 10 years will bring.
This is a mantra that I’ve heard Jeremy Keith say, and it’s something that I encourage every single person I speak to who asks me how they can learn/improve the work they do. Most often people say “But someone else has already written about it” to which I reply “Yes, but no one has ever […]
There’s some great tips in here from changing colour schemes to scrolling an element into view, and even taking a screenshot of a highlighted element within the dom
Progressive web apps have come a long way over the past three years. I remember listening to Jake bang on about the service worker in a Shop Talk podcast and feeling overly excited about the possibilities. Now it’s in more than one browser, and so much more can be done. In this article Paul Kinlan […]
There’s a new spec in town and it’s all about units! Exciting! There are new unites including vi (1% of the viewports size in the root elements inline axis), vb (not the rubbish Aaustralian beer, but 1% of the viewports size in the root elements block axis), ic (average character fullwidth glyph), cap (nominal height […]
Tim replies to the post last week from Eric around HTTPS and the negative impact it can have on users who are accessing content through a proxy thanks to their situation (expensive data, high packet loss, low caps). This is a problem that we need to discuss more and find a solution to, and as […]
But aren’t we already used to stretching such guidelines, building responsive interfaces that work across viewports? Shouldn’t we let go, because we cannot control a user’s browser? This comes back to the questions “Does the site need to look the same in every browser”. We already change the site look and feel between breakpoints using […]
If you love the idea of creating data visualistions and think you can just drop into D3 and emerge at the other end…. well I hope you’re right but the chances are this article will help set the record straight and point you down the right road for your particular journey
Another update for the Safari Webkit Technology Preview browser. This browser is the one that gets all the latest and greatest updates, which then allows folks like you and I to test our websites to see if the new features have caused any unwanted situations. It also provides us with the ability to test out […]
The Concatenate site provided previews of badges for attendee’s on the fly, check out how Christian Nwamba managed to get this working using the tools that Cloudinary provide.
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