Keep up with the latest news and developments around responsive design and the new direcitons that web designa and development are taking.
Some folks love AMP, others despise it. I love the idea of faster websites but disagree with Google’s approach in AMP. If you want to reduce the dominance that Google have over the web there are things that you can do as Marko Saric points out in this article
As I mentioned in the intro, I’m off to our xmas party tonight in my Simpsons holiday shirt so I was delighted to see that I could draw homer in CSS just using circles. Would it be easier to use an SVG? Probably, but not as much fun.
Custom properties makes CSS a programming language. There, I said it, no need to reply :). I’m still not in the practice of using CSS variables and I feel that I’m steadily being left behind, and also that I’m missing out on taking some serious shortcuts in my code.
I feel that most of us (certainly me) are still coming to grips with the application of variable fonts when we build sites. To me this means it’s up to us to become more familiar with how they work and the design potentials that they open up, and then showcase that to designers so that […]
The Google Chrome team are making UX changes to the browser to help users identify is a site is known to be slow loading. This is a great step in the right direction provided that they get the measurements right (which I’m sure they will). It’s great to see the Chrome team focusing specifically on […]
Really eye opening slides from Laura Kalbag’s recent talk at Full Frontal web conference in Brighton last Friday. If you think you know how much data is collected about you, I’m almost 100% sure you’ll find something else you didn’t know in this (I know I did)
Calibre (a performance monitoring tool) go through all the announcements related to performance that happened during the Chrome Development Summit. They cover off some of the items we have in our resources section this week and much more.
Windows had a release candidate out to go with their fancy new logo (does anyone else get reminded of the Firefox logo?) A new Edge means they’re finally rolling out the changes which essentially make Edge the same as Chrome. I wish they would have stuck with their own rendering engine and helped provide some […]
There are some really great suggestions here from Chris. The “find a dribbble shot and recreate it in a clean semantic accessible way” is one of my tasks for next year.
The web has been on and off its deathbed for the past 25 years and each year someone/thing gets traction around the end of times and the commeth of native. There are some serious issues, don’t get me wrong, but with people like Chris Ferdinandi and you at the helm to steer us in the […]
If you’re implementing the web share API on your site BEWARE. The API takes three arguments, Name, Text, URL, but when sharing on iOS it will only pass two arguments and omit the third one, the URL (go figure, the most vital piece). Jeremy has a modified script that he uses to only pass across […]
The other day one of the Creative Directors at work approached me very excited. He wanted our next web project to win an award for Accessibility… certainly something I could get behind. The thing was, however, is that he wanted to create a website that would be featured on Awwwards, but have a toggle button […]
Using design tricks on headings allows you to make more of the typography choices that you make and can have some interesting design outcomes. This approach will work with both custom headers (like a homepage that you set and forget) but also with a blog/CMS that has variable heading lengths/sizes
Jeremy applies a dark mode to his site during a recent indie web camp. The thing that I quite like about it, aside from the use of CSS Custom Properties, is the approach to darken your images with CSS as part of the update. I never would have thought of that.
As I’ve mentioned (a lot) before, I’ve switched over to Firefox as my primary browser. At first, the only downside was my lack off familiarity with the dev tools, but now I prefer it over Chrome’s. In this tutorial, you can see how the Grid Inspector, Fonts editor, Shape Path Editor and more work (seven […]
A compound grid is when you have two grids, like a 5 column and a 4 column, and you overlay them together. What does that have to do with Scrapbook layouts? Well, this is the grid that Michelle used to build the scrapbook and she even built this little tool on code pen that will […]
I remember when Eric Meyer created the first CSS reset back in 2008 (or at least that was the first time I really started using it). I think this version from Andy is a modern approach and something which is worth considering. If you’re using any reset please make sure you understand what the declarations […]
Remy continues to tweak his implementation of his service worker. In this iteration he ensures that if you land directly on a blog post for the first visit (when the service worker is first activated) that the current page is added to the list of cached items (it doesn’t by default because when the page […]
Instagram started as an app and that is where they focussed most of their efforts for a long time. Now things are changing and Instgram have been spending more time improving the capabilities of the instagram.com site. In this first of many posts, the engineering team go through the steps they’ve taken to help improve […]
Jquery was a great way to make traversing and manipulating the DOM a lot easier than it was with vanilla javascript, especially seeing as at the time each browser had their own quirks. Nowadays JS has developed further to provide the same simple hooks that jQuery once afforded us. This tutorial takes you through key […]
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