Web Development

Quite a fun article I worked on with Philip Braunen. Do you know that little bit of elasticity you get when scrolling beyond the viewport when browsing the web on a mobile device? iPhone calls it a “rubber-banding” effect. And you know it’s cool because Apple has previously fought to hold a copyright on it. […]

Welcome to this collection of what has been catching our eye on the web over the past month.

Learn how to create an iOS-inspired toggle switch using React components, building a simple demo React App for using this custom toggle switch component. Continue reading Create a Toggle Switch in React as a Reusable Component on SitePoint.

Google Analytics is great, but not everyone in your organization will be granted access. In many places I’ve worked, it was on a kind of “need to know” basis. In this article, I’m gonna flip that on its head and show you how I wrote a GitHub Action that queries Google Analytics, generates a top

I was recently asked by a student to help with a seemingly simple problem. She’d been working on a website for a coffee shop that sports a sticky header, and she wanted the hero section right underneath that header to span the rest of the available vertical space in the viewport. Here’s a visual demo

Seems like we’re always talking about clipping text around here. All it takes is a little browsing to spot a bunch of things we’ve already explored. Article on Sep 19, 2012 Multi-line Text Overflow Ellipsis accessibility content truncation Chris Coyier Article on Mar 16, 2021 Better Line Breaks for Long URLs accessibility content truncation Reuben

In the early days of the web, I remember how annoying it was when print designers would claim they could design websites, too. They assumed that just because they could design for one medium, they could design for the other. That assumption often led to bad user experiences. The skills for effective web design are

Welcome to September’s toolbox.

Find out how OpenX leverages AmpereOne-powered C3A instances on Google Cloud to enhance sustainability and performance. Continue reading OpenX uses AmpereOne-powered C3A instances on Google Cloud to drive sustainability and performance at scale on SitePoint.

Lush green slowly turning into yellows and reds in the Northern hemisphere; nature reawakening in the Southern part of the world: September is a time of change. A chance to leave old habits behind and embrace the beginning of something new. And, well, sometimes it only takes a small change in routines to spark fresh