Keep up with the latest news and developments around responsive design and the new direcitons that web designa and development are taking.
Ethan Marcotte talks about one of the best sizing methods you can use for Grid, the FR unit. He shows how you can create fixed columns and let FR take care of the rest, or how it can allow you to have lovely margins on the side of our pages while still allowing for full […]
Comments are one of the most terrible and hateful places in all of the internet. Yet, they are key to providing feedback and to bring a collective community together. The problem with comments are often they are castaway mentions with no ownership, web mentions helps change that. If you’re looking to implement it onto your […]
It just wouldn’t be a weekly newsletter without looking at what Jeremy Keith has been doing this week. After we featured a three part series of making Grid work in older versions of IE Jeremy puts down a great argument for counting IE11 as a non-supporter of grid and to include it in that set […]
I love this article from Chris. He takes a look at a beautiful design on Dribbble and goes through how a front-end developer would look at it and build it out. Chris even uses live code pen examples to showcase how these things would be pulled out.
One of the most responsive ways in which we can design any interface is to make it more human or at least allow us to interact with it in a more human and natural way. This is where AI, cognitive systems are incredibly valuable.
By prioritising the long tail you move the mean result further to the left, and more importantly, further towards the fastest loading scenario. Great article from Tim about what to focus on when working on performance. Tim is using Speedcurve as part of this review which is probably the number one tool out there on […]
Speed Curve is one of my favourite paid performance dashboards. With the likes of Steve Souders and Tammy Everts being employee’s two and three you can tell they do something right. This week Tammy has written about the introduction of a status dashboard that allows you to take a glance at the performance of a […]
I totally agree with the idea that all Frameworks (Polyfils) should themselves eventually become extinct and no longer needed. The idea of jQuery was always to superceded by Javascript itself and I’d like to see AMP go the same way one day.
Web Performance is not only about understanding what makes a site fast. It’s about creating awareness amongst both developers and non-developers. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such. I think that José M. Pérez hits the nail on the head with this article. These days we’re preoccupying ourselves with the latest and greatest […]
It’s a shame that eBay is focusing their PWA for Android devices first now that iOS also support Service Workers. I’m sure it’s because there’s some additional functionality that isn’t supported and I have reached out to the author for further clarification within 9 minutes of me reaching out I had an answer from Alex […]
One of the things that often gets overlooked during a website project, which is pretty ridiculous, is the words that go onto the page. In this article from Boxes and Arrows, we see how it can make a huge difference to the users’ experience.
An amazing story of the process that has been the complete digitisation of every written book by Google, and the likely chance that you will never be able to access them.
I’ve already mentioned that you absolutely go out and buy Offline, the new A Book Apart book from Jeremy Keith. Well, Jeremy kindly has shared a tonne of really helpful links that will help you learn more about the topic… but seriously the book does the best job.
I’m not a visual designer, but I can design the crap about of information and data! It’s one of my favourite parts of the job, working out the information that needs to appear on the page, and how that content can link with other information on the site in intelligent ways that create a great […]
I’m not sure why I’ve never featured these before, but the CodePen challenges are something that you should check out and participate. This week it’s all about combining HTML elements and in this case it is the <ins> and <del> elements.
Have you ever wondered about the science behind colour? I recently did a lot of research on this very topic when creating the CMYK Notebook set. I still remember using the Primary Colours in school, Red/Blue/Yellow which allowed you to create any other colour. This article looks at five different approaches to colour theory and […]
I’m sure that Stephen Hay touched on something very similar to this when he was writing responsive wireframes in the browser. This technique, however, doesn’t require any knowledge of HTML or CSS but creates that same key focus of content first and a sensible heirarchy.
Ever since CSS Grid hit browsers I’ve left Flexbox out of the newsletter… it seems a shame that after so long with floats that we’ve almost already discarded the first amazing fix that came along. There are some great and powerful things that you can do with Flexbox though, and these have benefits over using […]
Everything you always wanted to know about implementing scrolling but were afraid to ask. Anna and Andy have scrolled to the bottom of modern web specifications to take you on a whirlwind tour of latest CSS and JavaScript features that make navigating around a single page smooth, beautiful and less resource-hungry.
I’ve already read the first chapter (and potentially a few more chapters in a pre-release… it’s so good) and for me this is the best ABA book since the release of Edition 4 (RWD by Ethan). This article is the extract of that chapter which explains what Service Workers are and how they relate to […]
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