Earlier this month, we wrapped up our SmashingConfs 2024, and one subject that kept coming up over and over again — among attendees, between speakers, and even within the staff — was “what would we like to get better at next year?” It seems like everyone has a different answer, but one thing is for […]
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You’ve played Flexbox Froggy before, right? Or maybe Grid Garden? They’re both absolute musts for learning the basics of modern CSS layout using Flexbox and CSS Grid. I use both games in all of the classes I teach and I never get anything but high-fives from my students because they love them so much. As
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Another title from A Book Apart has been re-released for free. The latest? Tim Brown’s Flexible Typesetting. I may not be the utmost expert on typography and its best practices but I do remember reading this book (it’s still on the shelf next to me!) thinking maybe, just maybe, I might be able to hold
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Fear not, for this guide will arm you with the tools and humor needed to navigate these meetings with style (and sanity) intact. 1. Master Your Facial Expressions First things first: when the client says, “Can you make it pop?”, your face is a canvas that needs to remain as neutral as Helvetica. Resist the
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If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Abraham Maslow It’s easy to default to what you know. When it comes to toggling content, that might be reaching for display: none or opacity: 0 with some JavaScript sprinkled in. But the web is more “modern” today, so perhaps now is the
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Good technical illustrations and data visualisations allow users and clients to, in a manner of speaking, take time out, ponder and look at the information in a really accessible and engaging way. It can obviously also help you communicate certain categories of information and data. The aim of the article is to inspire and show
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The State of CSS 2024 survey wrapped up and the results are interesting, as always. Even though each section is worth analyzing, we are usually most hyped about the section on the most used CSS features. And if you are interested in writing about web development (maybe start writing with us 😉), you will specifically
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We all know how to do responsive design, right? We use media queries. Well no, we use container queries now, don’t we? Sometimes we get inventive with flexbox or autoflowing grids. If we’re feeling really adventurous we can reach for fluid typography. I’m a bit uncomfortable that responsive design is often pushed into discreet chunks,
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This article is a sponsored by DebugBear We’ve all had that moment. You’re optimizing the performance of some website, scrutinizing every millisecond it takes for the current page to load. You’ve fired up Google Lighthouse from Chrome’s DevTools because everyone and their uncle uses it to evaluate performance. After running your 151st report and completing
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