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This article introduces the concept of the headless CMS, a backend-only content management system that allows developers to create, store, manage and publish the content over an API using the Fauna and Vercel functions. This improves the frontend-backend workflow, that enables developers to build ex..

The WordPress plugin marketplace is seeing quite a bit of consolidation lately. And, even if you aren’t a close follower of the business side of things, it’s likely some of these moves will impact you. For example, the recent sale of the wildly-popular Advanced Custom Fields plugin is a pretty big ..

I don’t know about y’all, but my feeds have been flooded with articles about CSS Container Queries these past few weeks. The buzz about container queries actually started back in December after Miriam Suzanne posted a proposal (picking up on David Baron’s proposal) but it was news in a late-March tw..

Every designer has their own preferred strategy for collecting resources. Some pluck brushes, fonts, and templates from different “stock photo sites” and public marketplaces. Others collect graphics from swipe files and forums around the web. The never-ending desire for themes, visual content, and ..

Does that make your eye twitch a little bit? Like… it’s a typo. It should be target="_blank" with an underscore to start the value. As in… Open CodePen in a New Tab Welp, that’s correct syntax! In the case of the no-underscore target="blank", th..

We’ve all made excuses for why we haven’t gotten started on something we really want to do. We’re too busy, or we haven’t prepared enough to get started. The truth is, there are a million excuses we all can use to avoid making the necessary choices and sacrifices we need to in order to truly succee..

Have you ever experienced the frustration of trying to tap a button on a mobile device only to have it do nothing because the target size is just not large enough **and it’s not picking up on your press? Maybe you have larger fingers, like I do, or maybe it’s due to limited dexterity. This is becaus..

(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 benchmark of 7 Luxury Retail sites shows that Luxury Homepages and Product Pages perform well overall However Luxury Search performs poorly, while Product Lists and Filtering and Luxury Mobile sites perform fair to middling The 15 common UX issues discussed in this article can be a direct cause for users abandoning Luxury Retail sites We’ve recently published a new in-depth Luxury Goods UX Benchmark. This database contains UX performance rankings for 7 new Luxury Goods sites: Bang & Olufsen, Chanel, Gucci, Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton, TAG Heuer, and Van Cleef & Arpels. These sites have been manually assessed by Baymard researchers across 360+ research-based UX parameters relevant for luxury sites, resulting in 2,500+ weighted UX performance scores exclusively for Luxury Retail sites..

WordPress sites have an API by default. Wanna see this site’s most recent posts, with just a specific set of data… in JSON format? Here ya go. Alex Riviere made a joke site using that. At first, the site would fetch from that API client-side when it loaded. Fine, but if we take it seriously for a s..

Show/Hide password accessibility and password hints tutorial — Nicolas Steenhout goes deep on accessibility. For one thing, being able to toggle it to type="text" should be possible, while announcing, politely, the change. But also, put the password hints (for choosing a pass..