Review: Oxygen 2 Website Builder Lets You Design Code-Free Websites Like A Pro
21.6.2018
Popular WordPress website builder, Oxygen has a brand new version of the plugin in the works. In this review, we take a closer look at Oxygen 2.0 to see...
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What is SVG good for?
21.6.2018
Y'all probably wouldn't be surprised if I told you it's pretty awesome for icons, and icon systems. SVG icon systems can, and perhaps should be quite easy. I'm a fan of just inlining those suckers, particularly when they are pretty simple.
But what else?
Logos is a classic example! A lot...
UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right?
20.6.2018
A good candidate for the Blog Post of the Year from Zach Holman. I think Eric Portis' "w descriptors and sizes: Under the hood" is up there too, but perhaps even nerdier. Ooooh, also Frank Chimero's "The Good Room" is up there. But I digress.
Zach's article is as educational as it is funny.
But...
Building a Fancy Countdown Timer with MomentumSlider.js
20.6.2018
Nowadays there are many Javascript libraries to make it easy the task of adding sliders to a website. Most have a host of features, to adapt the slider to the particular needs of each case. However
Centering: The Newest Coolest Way vs. The Oldest Coolest Way
20.6.2018
This isn't a comprehensive guide to centering things. We have that!
This is just a little observation about old and new. One of the trickier things related to centering in CSS is when you need to center both vertically and horizontally and you don't know the width or height of what you...
Turbocharge your DevOps workflow by incorporating databases changes
20.6.2018
Accelerate DevOps Momentum by Incorporating Database Changes
Surveys indicate you're probably under serious pressure to deploy new releases and application changes at a rapid pace. Many or
Don’t just copy the @font-face out of Google Fonts URLs
19.6.2018
I don't think this is an epidemic or anything, but I've seen it done a few times and even advocated for. This is what I mean...
You go to Google Fonts and pick a font like Open Sans, and it gives you either a <link> or an @import with a URL there in which to ready this font for usage...
The Four Big Ways Jetpack Helps with Image Performance
19.6.2018
We've been working with Jetpack around here as a sponsor. It's a great match because as someone with a bunch of self-hosted WordPress sites, Jetpack is one of those no-brainer plugins for me. Jetpack can do a ton of good things for any site in a variety of very different ways. Here's one way...
Debugging JavaScript in Google Chrome and Visual Studio Code
19.6.2018
Learning to debug is an essential skill for taking the next step as a developer. It's important to understand and leverage the vast array of tools that exist for a given languge. Unfortunately, deb
Building a RSS Viewer With Vue: Part 2
19.6.2018
Welcome to Part 2 of this mini-series on building a RSS viewer with Vue. In the last post, I walked through how I built my demo using Vue.js and Vuetify on the front end and Webtask on the back end. When I built that initial version, I knew it was exactly thatmdash;an "initial" version. I took some...
10 Awesome Sass Libraries You Should Know About
19.6.2018
We share with you a collection of interesting Sass libraries that you should check out
Here’s the thing about “unused CSS” tools
18.6.2018
There are a lot of tools that aim to help you remove "unused CSS" from your project. Never a week goes by that I don't see a tool for this being shared or promoted. It must strike some kind of perfect chord for some developers. I care about performance, and I know that reducing file sizes is good...