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Matt West

Matt West is a designer at Wildbit, creators of Beanstalk, Postmark and DeployBot. He also wrote the book HTML5 Foundations. You can catch him on twitter as @MattAntWest.

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January 6, 2014 in Learn

Automating Web Performance Best Practices with mod_pagespeed

Web performance is a brilliant, but sometimes complex world. Concatenating and minifying files, optimizing images, setting up caching, these are all tasks that can lead to great performance wins. We know that this stuff is good for performance but actually…

January 3, 2014 in Learn

Improving Your Development Workflow with Yeoman

With so many great tools available to front-end web developers these days it can sometimes be difficult to understand how they all fit together. Deciding on a workflow that you’re happy with is often a very personal endeavour, but getting…

December 30, 2013 in Learn

Getting Started with Bower

There are now more libraries and frameworks available for front-end development than ever before. It’s not uncommon to have five or more of these libraries involved in a single project. But keeping track of all these libraries and making sure…

December 26, 2013 in Learn

Creating Immersive Experiences with the FullScreen API

Having the ability to take elements, or even entire pages fullscreen allows developers to create fully immersive experiences for the user. You can remove the distractions from other apps and help the user to focus on the task at hand….

December 23, 2013 in Learn

Building Multi-Touch Web Applications

With mobile web browsing now accounting for 15% of all global internet traffic building web applications targeted at mobile has become more important than ever. Building for mobile is very different to creating web applications targeted at the desktop environment….

December 19, 2013 in Learn

Timing JavaScript Code with High Resolution Timestamps

As the browser has evolved the possibilities of what can be achieved on the web have greatly increased. Technologies like Flash have given way to newcomers like Canvas and WebGL. But as we create more complex applications for the web…

December 16, 2013 in Learn

Using Emmet to Speed Up Front-End Web Development

Emmet is a plugin for your text editor that provides a number of tools to help you quickly write HTML and CSS code. The plugin, which was previously known as Zen Coding, allows you to generate HTML elements using a…

December 12, 2013 in Learn

An Introduction to Source Maps

One of the easiest performance wins you can gain for your website is to combine and compress your JavaScript and CSS files. But what happens when you need to debug the code within those compressed files? It can be a…

December 9, 2013 in Learn

Improving Code Quality with JSHint

JSHint is a tool that can help you to write more reliable and consistent JavaScript code. The tool works by checking your code for a number of common errors. If you’ve ever spent half an hour trying to debug your…

November 29, 2013 in Learn

Setting up Google Authorship for Your Website

You will have probably noticed that Google added a new addition to their search results a little while back. Verified content creators can now have a headshot and byline displayed alongside their links in the search results. In this blog…

November 15, 2013 in Learn

Efficient Animations with requestAnimationFrame

If you are using animations in your web apps you’ll want to make sure that they run smoothly. The easiest way of doing this is to use requestAnimationFrame (sometimes referred to as rAF), a method that makes creating smooth animations…

November 1, 2013 in Learn

Native Rich-Text Editing with the contenteditable Attribute

One of the lesser-known HTML attributes is contenteditable. This attribute allows you to turn a standard read-only HTML element into an interactive, rich-text editor. When Tim Berners-Lee built the first web browser in 1990, he created modes for both browsing…

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