Introducing the Front End Review Series
I hope I always have a healthy appetite for learning. Over the years I’ve learned a lot from collaboration, reading, and dissecting the code of other developers. I plan to keep this fire burning and...
View ArticleI amn’t
Today when asked a simple question my two year old replied “I amn’t”. We laughed, but didn’t correct her, after all: she’s actually made a pretty sharp move there! I think the English language is more...
View ArticleStarting class names with numbers
I’m probably not the only one who learned the hard way that CSS (or JS) class names can’t start with a number. It’s just one of those things: .1-col has to be .col-1, or .one-col. Classes have to start...
View ArticleChrome Blink issues
Chrome Blink went to the masses today, and unexpectedly I found my first buggy thing about the new JS rendering engine! I really didn’t think I’d even notice. Ironically, the effect was kind of blinky....
View ArticleTerrible Thirteen Year old Website
This isn’t allowed to be your first impression of me as a professional crafter of websites. I really feel like I need to preface this embarrassing link with my resume or something… I do some good work...
View ArticleDRY CSS
I’ve heard of the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) coding methodology a bit over the years, but this practical explanation really blew my mind. It often results in more code, but it’s more maintainable....
View ArticleNo.
Probably one of the more important lessons I’ll learn this year is to simply say “no“. Today friends needed help with a pretty interesting and serious web project. Knowing how busy I’ve been and look...
View ArticleIf the Internet died
When it gets down to it, the Internet is a pretty key ingredient in my hobby / job of building websites. This begs the question: “What would you do if the Internet was gone tomorrow?” It’s hard to...
View ArticleAndroid vs. iPhone
It’s not really fair to compare a closed ecosystem to an open source one, but let’s try. Android and iOS are the extreme platforms: One is super open, the other super closed. Apple has 6 different...
View ArticleWeb Accessibility laws coming soon
New websites being made now should be accessible, BY LAW!!! Accessibility affects every level of web site production. Starting with design, the development, and the copy writing. It’s everyone’s job to...
View ArticleA Call to Contributors
A couple weeks ago CSS legend Harry Roberts passed out on stage at a web conference. He wrote about how this came to pass, and it re-struck a chord with me about a couple things I’ve been thinking...
View ArticleFront End Review: Digg.com
Digg.com has gone through a few massive changes in this latest iteration. If I remember correctly Digg was bought-out and completely revamped in a number of weeks! Let’s have a peek under the hood to...
View ArticleWordPress Screencast Series
I talk a lot about WordPress with friends, twitter acquaintances, colleagues, clients, random people on the street who are too polite to turn me away etc. I often find myself addressing some of the...
View ArticlePassword Security
I kinda wish I never found this: Chrome doesn’t do a fantastic job of keeping your passwords safe. At all (source). In fact, I’m guessing Safari doesn’t either since Chrome can import them. Lame, lame,...
View ArticleQuote
Don’t try to be ‘good’ at ten things, be great at two things. These were some of the best words I heard this week. I feel like this is the hundredth time I’ve decided to double down on web design.
View ArticleThe Fall of IE8
IE8 is on its way out. IE10 is officially the most used version of Internet Explorer (source). You can see from the previous link or screenshot below the decline of IE9 as browser updates are pushed....
View ArticleEmmet Livestyle
This is too cool. Emmet Livestyle is a text editor package and browser extension that allow for two-way style edits (live updates from Sublime to the browser, and from the browser’s web inspector to...
View ArticleGetting started with SVG
The vector web is here! SVG is a pretty viable option now. SVG is a vector image format. Here’s an SVG primer! http://css-tricks.com/using-svg/ Here is a great post on how to implement SVG with...
View ArticleLorem Ipsum
Lorem Ipsum is a common block of latin text used as placeholders in comps. This ironically is called “greeking”! During the design phase it’s often preferable to use this to actual content, lest the...
View ArticleFresh CSS
I’ve fallen helplessly in love with Sass! It’s made front end fast, and efficient in my day to day – but the only catch is I don’t work alone. I work as a part of a team, and it’s not … Continue reading →
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