Simple Little Use Case for `vmin`
I made a site all about serverless and how it relates to front-end developers.
DetailsIf Your Company Were a Couch…
Without even realizing it, our perceptions are cross-referenced with our memories. Our brains conjure up an emotional reaction when our eyes see familiar shapes, colors, and textures. This fun exercise uses various styles of couches to help you make decisions about the emotional response that best represents the personality of your company (or how you would like your company to be perceived). … Read article “If Your Company Were a Couch…”
DetailsNeed to do Dependency-Free Ajax?
The effect is very subtle. … Read article “Animated Grainy Texture”
DetailsSystems Smart Enough To Know When They’re Not Smart Enough
Let’s say you’re making a blog post layout. Content is entered into a CMS inside a WYSIWYG editor field. You echo that content to the page. You pull it up on a mobile device and notice the paragraphs go edge-to-edge. Yikes, it’s a little uncomfortable. So you add some kind of left/right padding maybe using a div.container.
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It’s a weird time. So many of us are living so close to the edge. As Gina puts it, it’s harder to find “a 5-year-old Stack Overflow answer that solves” your problem. New things drop … Read article “Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers”
DetailsYou Kinda Can Use Custom Fonts in HTML Emails
And you use them pretty much just like you’d use custom fonts on a website. Jaina Mistry had the scoop on this last year over on the Litmus blog:
DetailsRelative Paths Episode 47 – Dogmatism
Greg Hovanesyan, who recently posted here an Introduction to the Web Audio API, follows up with another huge post on how to use it to create iconic music from our nerds past, like sounds from The Legend of Zelda and Metroid.
DetailsSlides: CSS-Tricks is a Poster Child WordPress Site
Let’s take a look at what it takes to build a grid overlay with CSS. It will be responsive, easily customizable and make heavy use of CSS variables (known more accurately as “CSS custom properties”). If you aren’t familiar with custom properties, I’d highly recommend reading What is the difference between CSS variables and preprocessor variables? and watching Lea Verou’s enlighting talk on using them.… Read article “Building a CSS Grid Overlay”
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But let’s say you want to programmatically create these “guides”. That might make them faster to create, easier to maintain, and … Read article “How To Make Guides (Collections of Content) in WordPress”
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