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Semantic menu context

Scott digs into the history of the element. He traced it as far back as HTML 2 (!) in a 1994 changelog. The vibe then, it seems, was to mark up a list. I would suspect the intention is much like

Easy Dark Mode (and Multiple Color Themes!) in React

I was working on a large React application for a startup, and aside from just wanting some good strategies to keep our styles organized, I wanted to give this whole “dark mode” thing a shot. With the huge ecosystem around React, you might think that there would be a go-to solution for style themes, ..

Quickly Get Alerted to Front-End Errors and Performance Issues

(This is a sponsored post.) Measuring things is great. They say what you only fix what you measure. Raygun is great at measuring websites. Measuring performance, measuring errors and crashes, measuring code problems. You know what’s even better than measuring? Having a system in place to notify y..

The Top 4 Things You Can Learn from IxDF’s New Visual Design Course

Users’ first impressions typically form in 50 milliseconds, and visual design plays a substantial role in whether users get a good or a bad one. Good first impressions are essential to engage new users and ensure the success of a product or experience. Studies show that visual appeal—what we see—is a crucial element to generate trust, and trust is the first step to achieving greater user engagement, loyalty and advocacy. Master the art of first impressions in the Visual Design: The Ultimate Guide course. Find out how to harness the power of visual design to hook users from the very first second. In this piece, you will find the main highlights of this course.Have you ever disliked a par...

8 Powerful Plugins for Integrating Social Media into WordPress

These days, no website should go without at least some basic social media integration. If you’re a content creator, enabling readers to share various services is a must. But you can also go beyond just the basic share buttons. You might even want to automate the process of sharing that same content..

Don’t Snore on CORS

Whatever, I just needed a title. Everyone’s favorite web security feature has crossed my desk a bunch of times lately and I always feel like that is a sign I should write something because that’s what blogging is. The main problem with CORS is that developers don’t understand CORS. The basic conce..

Image CDNs: How Edge Computing Provides a Faster Low Code Image Solution

Many websites today use some type of traditional Content Delivery Network (CDN), which means improvements in website load times, decreases in bandwidth, and better redundancy and security. But not everything is optimized, specifically when it comes to images, and image CDNs can help with that! Tra..

Quick and Dirty Bootstrap Overrides at Runtime

Oh, Bootstrap, that old standard web library that either you hate or you spend all your time defending as “it’s fine, it’s not that bad.” Regardless of what side you fall on, it’s a powerful UI framework that’s everywhere, most people know the basics of it, and it gives you extremely predictable res..

cleanup.pictures

Nice domain, eh? Does just what it says on the tin: cleans up pictures. You draw over areas of the image you want cleaned up, and it does its best using weird science. It’s like Photoshop’s Spot Healing Brush, only a single-use free website. Much like the amazing remove.bg which is an equally amazin..