Introductory Note # Every so often we see twitter rants about progressive enhancement versus using Javascript for everything... after all we can do most of what CSS can with Javascript and the CSS...
Let's face it. The web has become too big. At every stage on the development process we have several different tools each with a passionate following that will tell you their tool is better than the...
The argument about tool overload is not a new one. There have been many discussions over the years about what framework is better, what language is better, whether you should use Ruby on Rails versus...
Part conference review and part ideas moving forward. This may or may not make as much sense as the review for AEA did. I still think they complement each other. Where AEA dealt with the how to...
I thought I was crazy when I saw that both An Event Apart and Books in Browsers were back to back on the same week and decided not to cancel. Now that BiB is almost done I'm kinda glad it did. AEA...
Grids labs.jensimmons.net rachelandrew.co.uk Modular Scale Modular Scale More Meaningful Typography -- Tim Brown, A List Apart Web Font Loading Patterns -- Bram Stein Molten Leading Molten...
Layouts: The Next Generation # Rather than work with floats and positioned content we'll concentrate on 3 new(ish) layout technologies: Multi column, flexbox and grid General considerations # The...
Making and Breaking the Grid and The Elements of Typographic Style are two of my favorite books on design and, for the longest time, I thought about them only in their applications to books. Sitting...
Media queries to control typography and layout # Media queries are awesome. They allow developers (us) to change elements of the design based on arbitrary criteria…. We finally can customize our...
Taking advantage of SASS to play with colors # I'm bad at remembering headecimal, rgba or hsl colors. These fuctions will help convert the hexadecimal values $base-color: #AD141E; Darken & Lighten...