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With the widespread acceptance of web standards, and the resulting deprecation of browser prefixes, there has been a noticeable change in the browser market. Where once browser manufacturers would try to lure users in with promises of feature support, now the focus is on privacy, speed, and develope..

Svelte fully supports custom elements (e.g. ) without any custom configuration or wrapper components and has a perfect score on Custom Elements Everywhere. However, there are still a few quirks you need to watch out for, especially around how Svelte sets data on custom elements. At Ala..

I’m not here to raise a shield protecting CSS utility frameworks. I don’t even particularly like the approach, myself, and nothing is above fair criticism. But fair is a key word there. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen utility styles compared to inline styles. Sarah Dayan is weary of it: [..

(Note: Unfortunately, e-mail and RSS don’t support advanced layouts and features. If the graphics in this article look strange, you may want to read the article in your web browser.) Key Takeaways Our research shows that on Direct-to-Consumer, small catalog websites users need to “get to know” the brand before they want to make a purchase decision. Users are particularly interested in brand values and their “origin story”, but materials, manufacturing practices, and product quality are also of key importance. 67% of users on DTC sites seek out such nonproduct content, compared to just 37% uf users on traditional retail website. During Baymard’s large-scale testing on direct-to-consumer (DTC), small product catalog sites, 62% of users at some point engaged with nonproduct- and nonorder-related content; for example, content found on pages titled “About Us”, “Our Story”, “Our Process”, and so on. In contrast, when testing general B2C sites, our large-scale UX testing shows that onl..

When it comes to increasing performance, web designers leave no stone unturned. After all, every kilobyte we can shave off of a page’s load time will make for a better user experience. Images are an area of primary concern. Even basic optimization techniques can mean better performance. But with th..

Una is calling it the new responsive. A nod to the era we were most certainly in, the era of responsive design. Where responsive design was fluid grids, flexible media, and media queries, the new responsive is those things too, but slotted into a wider scope: user preference queries, viewport and fo..

Over the last decade or so, blogging has exploded in popularity and shows no signs of stopping. As such, bloggers are always on the lookout for a design that will make them stand out from the competition while allowing them to present their writing in a creative way. Designing an attractive blog la..

Welcome to a new series of articles, in which we round up the best new fonts released from some of the top designers on the Web. In this inaugural edition, the collection includes fonts released or expanded over the last few months. Many of the fonts have free weights available. If you use any of t..

Let’s forego the usual circles and bars we typically see used in charts for more eccentric shapes. With online presentations more and more common today, a quick way to spruce up your web slides and make them stand out is to give the charts a shapely makeover 🪄 I’ll show you how to create charts wit..

There are currently over 58,000 listings in the WordPress Plugin Repository. Beyond that, there are likely thousands of free and commercial offerings available elsewhere on the web. Together, they cover a staggering number of functionalities and use cases. But not all plugins are created equally. O..