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Hashnode: A Blogging Platform for Developers
Hashnode is a free developer blogging platform. Say you’ve just finished an ambitious project and want to write about 10 important lessons you’ve learned as a developer during it. You should definitely blog it—I love that kind of blog post, myself. Making a jump into the technical debt of operating ..
10 CSS Code Snippets for Creating Tooltips
Adding a simple tooltip into your page or app isn’t difficult. You can easily find a multitude of JavaScript tooltip plugins and scripts that will all work perfectly well.
But pure CSS is often a better option and has become the preferred choice for many web designers. If you’re looking for pure CS..
Yet Another Mobile Context Menu With No Indication it Can Scroll
Remember Tyler Hall’s personal story of a UX moment where the popup sharing context menu on iOS had no visible indication that the content inside was scrollable? The thing his mom wanted to do seemed impossible iOS isn’t alone here — Terence Eden documents essentially the same problem on Android:
I..
ECMAScript proposal: JSON modules
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer looks at JSON modules, which is already live in Chrome 91 (but nothing else). It looks just like an ES Modules-style import, only you asset the type at the end.
import configData from './config-data.json' assert {type: 'json'};
How nice is that? Once this ..
A Step-By-Step Process for Turning Designs Into Code
Turning website design files into a combination of HTML, CSS and JavaScript is the bread and butter of many front-end web development jobs, but there’s a part of this work that doesn’t neatly fit in to tutorials on any specific topic. There’s a process of breaking down a design and figuring out how ..
The Good and Bad of Stock Photography
It may be hard to imagine, but there was a time when it was rare to find high-quality photography on a typical website. Only the big-budget players had access to compelling images. And even then, they were likely borrowed from existing print materials.
Those of us building websites for smaller orga..
The Nine States of Design
Here’s a really good ol’ post from way back in 2015 all about the nine states of design and how we should think all the edge cases whenever we’re building interfaces. Vince Speelman writes:
Modern UI teams are designing components first; Interfaces are merely the thoughtful composition of component..
Your Image Is Probably Not Decorative
Eric doesn’t mince words, especially in the title, but also in the conclusion:
In modern web design and development, displaying an image is a highly intentional act. Alternate descriptions allow us to explain the content of the image, and in doing so, communicate why it is worth including.
Just bec..
Typewriter Animation That Handles Anything You Throw at It
I watched Kevin Powell’s video where he was able to recreate a nice typewriter-like animation using CSS. It’s neat and you should definitely check it out because there are bonafide CSS tricks in there. I’m sure you’ve seen other CSS attempts at this, including this site’s very own snippet.
Like Kev..
7 Top Multipurpose WordPress Themes You Should Check Out
You have been looking for a theme for your website. You haven’t yet settled on all the design details or come across a specialty theme that appears to have what you might need. Then, a multipurpose theme would be a wise choice.
Multipurpose WordPress themes have become extremely popular because of ..
