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So many little design helper sites!
I had one of those little single-serving designer helper sites bookmarked the other day: getwaves.io. Randomized SVG waves! Lots of cool options! Easy to customize! Easy to copy and paste! Well played, z creative labs.
But then I saw the little link at the top of the page, that it was part of some..
Improve Performance by Combining Headless CMS with an Image CDN
The headless CMS trend is gaining traction growing at over 20% annually. The driving force behind the headless CMS trend is developer’s increasing need for flexibility and control. Using the headless CMS’s API, front-end developers can use JavaScript frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular to quickly..
iOS Browser Choice
Just last week I got one of those really?! 🤨 faces when this fact came up in conversation amongst smart and engaged fellow web developers: there is no browser choice on iOS. It’s all Safari. You can download apps that are named Chrome or Firefox, or anything else, but they are just veneer over Safar..
Web Unleashed is Back! (Use Coupon Code “CSS-Tricks” for 50% Off)
(This is a sponsored post.)
Now in its tenth year (!!!), Web Unleashed is one of the top events for web devs. It’s coming up quick: October 20-22, 2021.
The lineup is amazing. You’ll hear from leaders in the industry, including Ethan Marcotte, Rachel Andrew, Harry Roberts, Addy Osmani, Tracy Lee ..
The Impossible Question: How Long Does It Take to Build a Website?
Web designers get asked all sorts of questions. We’re queried for advice on aesthetics, marketing, technology – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Being an endless fountain of knowledge is just part of the job. 😉
Our answers tend to come from experience (or a quick search). Yet, there is one q..
10 Free WordPress Plugins for Adding & Extending Google Maps
Adding basic maps to your WordPress website is a breeze. With Google Maps, you’re able to copy and paste the provided embed code into your page or post using the Gutenberg block editor or the Classic Editor.
But if you want to add some more advanced functionality, you can look to some outstanding p..
Tonic (Component Framework)
I enjoy little frameworks like Tonic. It’s essentially syntactic sugar over to make them feel easier to use. Define a Class, template literal an HTML template, probably some other fancy helpers, and you’ve got a component that doesn’t feel terribly different to something like a Re..
Collecting Email Signups With the Notion API
A lot of people these days are setting up their own newsletters. You’ve got the current big names like Substack and MailChimp, companies like Twitter are getting into it with Revue, and even Facebook is getting into the newsletter business. Some folks are trying to bring it closer to home with a sel..
20 Best New Sites, September 2021
Welcome to this month’s collection of what’s making the web look good. This time out we’ve got some new brands and some rebrands, and we’ve got some good examples of branding continuity across media.
Branding continuity doesn’t just mean putting the logo in the corner and using the same colors and ..
Changing Hands: Should You Worry When a WordPress Plugin Has a New Owner?
As human beings, we tend to be wary of change. This seems especially so when it comes to the products and services we use. That “new and improved” formula? No thanks – just give us the original, please.
Therefore, it’s no surprise that there has been a lot of grumbling in the WordPress community la..
