CSS preprocessors have become increasingly popular in recent years because of their capacity to do a lot of the most tedious parts of CSS for you automatically. (For an overview of the different CSS preprocessors available, see How to Choose …Continue reading
In CSS, float and clear serve for layout much the same way as the tables they replaced: As stand-ins that work well enough. But they’re still limited. One proposed solution is called the CSS Flexible Box Layout Module, commonly called …Continue reading
The idea behind HTML microformats is to setup context for search engine crawlers. Microformats are a quick solution for marking up your HTML code referencing specific relations such as your address, job, or colleagues. Microformats are fairly old but still …Continue reading
The new Notifications API gives you the ability to launch desktop notifications directly from your web applications. This can be very useful for updating user’s with key information, particularly in AJAX applications where you may have HTTP requests taking place …Continue reading
As a web designer, it’s important to embrace that your website is going to look different in various browsers and on different devices. Focus on making your website change layout to match the device that your visitors are viewing it …Continue reading
WordPress has come a long way from its humble blogging beginnings. With the popularization of Custom Posts Types (CPTs), WordPress has emerged to become a fully-featured CMS platform, suitable for any kind of content you can throw at it. However, …Continue reading
Did you know that we can hardware-accelerate graphics-intensive CSS features by offloading them to the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) for better rendering performance in the browser? Most computers these days have graphics cards suitable for hardware acceleration. Because of this, we …Continue reading
There used to be a clear differentiation between desktop and mobile. With the introduction of tablets and tons of new internet accessible technologies, we’ve been faced with designing for more monitor resolutions and devices than ever before. In this video, …Continue reading
The term AJAX describes a methodology of loading data dynamically on a page without loading a new page. The browser makes a request that’s in the background, then a success or error callback is triggered when the request completes. The …Continue reading
CSS frameworks have gone responsive, squeezing content into a spectrum of desktop and mobile browsers with varying degrees of success. While any CSS solution for layout is preferable to nested tables, no single solution fits every website. But that hasn’t stopped …Continue reading
Smells Like Bakin' is a cupcake company in need of a website. This project will walk us through the basics of HTML and CSS from the very beginning. HTML and CSS are the structural and presentational building blocks of every website and will serve as the foundation for any web project.
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