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Popular Design News of the Week: October 18, 2021 – October 24, 2021
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Can Include (a Certain HTML element within another Certain HTML Element)
A single-serving website from Alexander Vishnyakov for testing if it’s valid to put any particular HTML element within another type of HTML element. Kinda neat to have a quick reference for this.
Some combinations feel fairly obvious: can you put a
How To Leverage Social Proof Successfully
Customer reviews are incredibly valuable to your company. Around 95% of customers say they read reviews before they make a purchase. Another 72% say that they won’t even consider buying your items until they’ve read the reviews associated with your business or product.
No matter how good your mark..
Exploring the CSS Paint API: Rounding Shapes
Adding borders to complex shapes is a pain, but rounding the corner of complex shapes is a nightmare! Luckily, the CSS Paint API is here to the rescue! That’s what we’re going to look at as part of this “Exploring the CSS Paint API” series.
Exploring the CSS Paint API series:
Part 1: Image Fragmen..
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DOOM Rendered via Checkboxes – Check out this playable version of the classic game recreated with checkboxes.
In Web Design, Easier Doesn’t Always Mean Better – Why products that promise an easier experience may not be the best option.
WebVitalsRobot – Analyze your website and be alerted when its ..
What if… you could use Visual Studio Code as the editor of in-browser Developer...
It’s not uncommon for my front-end workflow to go something like this:
Work on thing.See that thing in an automatically refreshed browser.See something wrong with that thing.Inspect and correct the thing in DevTools.Apply the correct code in my code editor.See that correct code automatically refres..
The CSS-in-React Landscape
(This is a sponsored post.)
I only half-jokingly refer to the CSS-in-JS world as CSS-in-React. Many of the libraries listed below theoretically work in non-React situations — they generally call that “framework-agnostic”) — but I’d guess the vast majority of their usage is on React projects. That’s..
How to Create a Contact Form With Next.js and Netlify
We’re going to create a contact form with Next.js and Netlify that displays a confirmation screen and features enhanced spam detection.
Next.js is a powerful React framework for developing performant React applications that scale. By integrating a Next.js site with Netlify’s technology, we can quic..
Tilda – The Website Builder That Disrupted The Way We Create Websites
Tilda website builder combines everything we liked so much about constructors when we were kids – you can experiment, test out and build myriads of new creative ideas out of ready-to-use blocks. Tilda is that type of constructor that allows you to own your creative process and create pretty much any..
Is It Really Worthwhile Having a Personal Portfolio?
We all know blogging and personal portfolio sites have been very important for designers looking to increase their visibility to clients and others who admire their work.
But some key developments have risen up over the past decade, which, in my opinion, are threatening to eliminate the need for a ..
