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Quiz: Are You Prepped For Meeting Design Clients?
Walking into an initial meeting with a new client can be nerve-wracking. If you’re a freelancer, your income could depend on the outcome; if you’re part of an agency, then your colleagues’ incomes could rely on it too.
More often than not, you’re meeting someone successful enough at negotiating to ..
Weekly News for Designers № 626
IndexNow Plugin – Microsoft Bing’s WordPress plugin will submit your content to multiple search engines without having to register or verify your website.
Crafting Scroll Based Animations in Three.js – This tutorial will demonstrate creating a scroll-based animation using WebGL.
Smoothly Reverting..
8 Helpful Accessibility Links for January 2022
Every now and then, I find that I’ve accumulated a bunch of links about various things I find interesting. Accessibility is one of those things! Here’s a list of related links to other articles that I’ve been saving up and think are worth sharing.
Myths about Web Accessibility — Alvaro Montoro cove..
A Practical Tip For Using Sass Default Parameters
Sass offers functions and mixins that accept parameters. You can use Sass default parameters, that is, parameters that have a value even if you don’t provide them when the function or mixin is called.
Let’s focus on mixins here. Here’s the syntax of a mixin:
@mixin foo($a, $b, $c) {
// I can use..
Perusing the Digital Junk of a Web Designer
If you’re not sure how long you’ve been in the web design industry, take a look at your data. It says a lot about who you are and the things you’ve done.
For someone who started in the mid-1990s, my data archive has volumes to say. From sloppily hand-coded HTML documents to complex (and still slopp..
Parcel CSS: A New CSS Parser, Transformer, and Minifier
Hot off the presses from Devon Govett, creator of Parcel, is Parcel CSS:
A CSS parser, transformer, and minifier written in Rust.
Nice. The CSS world could use a little processing shake up like this.
I just wrote a few weeks ago:
Ya know how esbuild has seriously shaken things up for the JavaScr..
Open Source & Sustainability
It’s a god-damned miracle to me that open source is as robust as it is in tech. Consider the options. You could have a job (or be entrepreneurial) with your coding skills and likely be paid quite well. Or, you could write code for free and have strangers yell at you every day at all hours. I like be..
How to Make a Pure CSS 3D Package Toggle
You know how you can get cardboard boxes that come totally flat? You fold ‘em up and tape ‘em to make them into a useful box. Then when it’s time to recycle them, you cut them back apart to flatten them. Recently, someone reached out to me about essentially this concept as a 3D animation and I thoug..
How I Saved My Design Agency & Tripled My Profits
There was a point at which I was very close to losing my business, and I didn’t realize how close.
I wasn’t always a good planner, and I didn’t plan to start an agency. One day I was a freelance graphic designer, my job list grew, I hired some help, and suddenly I was managing a team.
There isn’t ..
Netlify Identity, a Key Aspect to Jamstack Development
(This is a sponsored post.)
Netlify is amazing at static file hosting, but it’s really so much more than that. You can build any sort of website, even highly dynamic apps, with the Jamstack approach and static file hosting at the core.
Say you want to build a TODO app with users. Those users will..
