Create Diagonal Layouts Like it's 2020
Nils Binder covers the ways:
CSS Findings From The New Facebook Design
Ahmad Shadeed digs around the new Facebook's front-end code.
How to Re-Create a Nifty Netflix Animation in CSS
The design for Netflix's browse page has remained pretty similar for a few years now. One mainstay component is the preview slider that allows users to scroll
A Grid of Logos in Squares
Let's build a literal grid of squares, and we'll put the logos of some magazines centered inside each square. I imagine plenty of you have had to build a logo
CSS-Only Marquee Effect
You make sure the text is more than twice the width of the screen, then use negative translate animations to do the marquee movement.
Some Typography Links II
I just can't stop bookmarking great links related to typography. I'm afraid I'm going to have to subject you, yet again, to a bunch of them all grouped up. So
Getting JavaScript to Talk to CSS and Sass
JavaScript and CSS have lived beside one another for upwards of 20 years. And yet it’s been remarkably tough to share data between them. There have been large
Google's Technical Writing Guide
It's good!
Accessibility Links
Austin Gil has kicked off the first in a five-part series about "HTML Forms Right" and to starts with semantics. It's talking to the "we build our front-ends
typespecimens.io
If you’re looking for a new typeface for that side project of yours then here’s a great website by John D. Jameson that collects a bunch of the latest type
Why Do Some HTML Elements Become Deprecated?
The internet has been around for a long while, and over time we’ve changed the way we think about web design. Many old techniques and ways of doing things
Rethinking Code Comments
Justin Duke asks if treating code comments like footnotes could help us understand the code in a file better. In his mockup, all the comments are hidden by
Performant Expandable Animations: Building Keyframes on the Fly
Animations have come a long way, continuously providing developers with better tools. CSS Animations, in particular, have defined the ground floor to solve
How They Fit Together: Transform, Translate, Rotate, Scale, and Offset
Firefox 72 was first out of the gate with "independent transforms." That is, instead of having to combine transforms together, like:
RSS Stuff
Laura Kalbag wrote How to read RSS in 2020. This would be a nice place to send someone curious about RSS: what it is, what it's for, and how you can start
gqless
This is so cool. I mean, GraphQL is already cool. It's very satisfying to write an understandable-looking query for whatever you want and then use that data
4 CSS Grid Properties (and One Value) for Most of Your Layout Needs
CSS Grid provides us with a powerful layout system for websites. The CSS-Tricks guide gives you a comprehensive overview of Grid’s properties with layout
Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG
Scott Turner, who has an entire blog "Exploring procedural generation and display of fantasy maps", gets into why vector graphics seems on these surface why
Creating an Editable Site with Google Sheets and Eleventy
Remember Tabletop.js? We just covered it a little bit ago in this same exact context: building editable websites. It’s a tool that turns a Google Sheet into
How to use CSS Scroll Snap
Nada Rifki demonstrates the scroll-snap-type and scroll-snap-alignCSS properties. I like that the demo shows that the items in the scrolling
Consistent Backends and UX: How Do New Algorithms Help?
In previous articles, we explained what consistency is, the difference between "strong" and "eventual" consistency, and why this distinction is more important
How to Animate Text with SVG and CSS
The other day I was helping my pal Jez work on Dept. of Enthusiasm, the site for his newsletter, and I had a thought. What if we made the word “enthusiasm” in
CSS Viewport Units
Deep dive from Ahmad. I like the coverage of vmin and vmax, which I think I don't reach for as often as I should.
An Introduction to MDXJS
Markdown has traditionally been a favorite format for programmers to write documentation. It’s simple enough for almost everyone to learn and adapt to while
Auto-Growing Inputs & Textareas
By default, <input> and <textarea> elements don't change size based on the content they contain. In fact, there isn't any simple HTML or CSS way
How To Use an Emoji as a Favicon Easily
With just a simple one-liner of code you can use any emoji as a favicon of your website. 😃
Building a Real-Time Chat App with React and Firebase
In this article, we’ll cover key concepts for authenticating a user with Firebase in a real-time chat application. We’ll integrate third-party auth providers
Different Favicon for Development
I bet a lot of us tend to have the production website and the development website up simultaneously a lot. It's almost a developer cliché at this point to
Client-Side Image Editing on Mobile
Michael Scharnagl:
CSS2JS
To add inline styles on an element in JSX, you have to do it in this object syntax, like:
React Suspense in Practice
This post is about understanding how Suspense works, what it does, and seeing how it can integrate into a real web app. We'll look at how to integrate routing
Playing With Particles Using the Web Animations API
When it comes to motion and animations, there is probably nothing I love more than particles. This is why every time I explore new technologies I always end
What Does `playsinline` Mean in Web Video?
I got myself confused about this the other day, went around searching for an answer and came up empty on finding something clear. The answer actually is quite
Flexbox and absolute positioning
Chen Hui Jing notes that when you absolutely position a flex item, it's no longer part of the flex layout. Except... it kinda is a little bit. If you make the
Tools for Optimizing SVG
This is our straight-to-the-point list of SVG optimizing tools across a number of categories. They are all largely based around SVGO, but how you use it depends. There are web apps, desktop apps, apis, and even design tool add-ons.
WooCommerce 4.0 & WooCommerce Payments Beta
Y'all know WooCommerce: it's a plugin for WordPress that adds robust eCommerce functionality to your site. Notably, like WordPress itself, it's open-source
"weeds of specificity"
Lara Schenck:
Get Started Building GraphQL APIs With Node
We all have a number of interests and passions. For example, I’m interested in JavaScript, 90’s indie rock and hip hop, obscure jazz, the city of Pittsburgh,
Programming Sass to Create Accessible Color Combinations
We are always looking to make the web more accessible. Color contrast is just math, so Sass can help cover edge cases that designers might have missed.
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Brent Jackson says CSS utility libraries failed somewhat:
Make Yourself a Little API With Netlify Functions
Here's an example of a nice little use case for cloud functions. Glitch has this great package of friendly words. Say you wanted to randomly generate
Considerations When Choosing Fonts for a Multilingual Website
As a front-end developer working for clients all over the world, I've always struggled to deal with multilingual websites — especially cases
Negative Margins
PPK digs into the subject, which he found woefully undercovered in web tech documentation. Our entry doesn't mention them at all, which I'll aim to fix.
Adventures in CSS Semi-Transparency Land
Recently, I was asked to make some tweaks to a landing page and, among the things I found in the code, there were two semitransparent overlays — both with the
Geoff's Redesign Posts
I love it when people redesign "in the open" and write about it. I'd just like to shout out to our own Geoff who has been doing this for 3 months now. He
What to Use Instead of Number Inputs
You might reach for <input type="number"> when you're, you know, trying to collect a number in a form. But it's got all sorts of issues. For one,
Currying in CSS
Funny timing on this I was just looking at the website for Utopia (which is a responsive type project which I hate to admit I don't fully understand) and I
The Slideout Footer
A fascinating new site called The Markup just launched. Tagline: Big Tech Is Watching You. We’re Watching Big Tech. Great work from Upstatement. The
What React Does (and Doesn't Do)
With a name as big as React, it's bound to cause some Stream-Crossing Confusion, as I like to call it. How do you center a <div> in React? Dave Ceddia:
How We Created a Static Site That Generates Tartan Patterns in SVG
Tartan is a patterned cloth that’s typically associated with Scotland, particularly their fashionable kilts. On tartanify.com, we gathered over 5,000 tartan
What I Like About Craft CMS
Looking at the CMS scene today, there are upwards of 150 options to choose from — and that’s not including whatever home-grown custom alternatives people
Making Things Better: Redefining the Technical Possibilities of CSS
Robin recently lamented the common complaint that CSS is frustrating. There are misconceptions about what it is and what it does. There are debates about what
4 Ways to Animate the Color of a Text Link on Hover
Let’s create a pure CSS effect that changes the color of a text link on hover… but slide that new color in instead of simply swapping colors.
Vue.js: The Documentary
Hey how cool! A documentary about Vue! Good timing as it looks like VueConf is happening right now. (Reminder we have a site for conferences to tell you stuff
Selectors Explained
Have you ever found yourself either writing a CSS selector that winds up looking confusing as heck, or seen one while reading through someone's code? That
Unfortunately, clip-path: path() is Still a No-Go
I was extremely excited when I first heard that clip-path: path() was coming to Firefox. Just imagine being able to easily code a breathing box like the one
How to Customize the WooCommerce Cart Page on a WordPress Site
A standard e-commerce site has a few common pages. There are product pages, shop pages that list products, and let’s not forget pages for the user account,
A Follow-Up to PHP Templating
Not long ago, I posted about PHP templating in just PHP (which is basically HEREDOC syntax). I'm literally using that technique for some super basic
Where to Learn WordPress Theme Development
Over a decade ago, I did a little three-part video series on Designing for WordPress. Then I did other series with the same spirit, like videocasting the
Why is CSS Frustrating?
Here’s a great thread by Kevin Powell that's making the rounds. He believes so many folks see CSS as a frustrating and annoying language: