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How to Create a Photography Website: Showcase Your Talent in 5 Steps
As a photographer, you need a highly functional photography website that empowers you to showcase your art in an appealing way. But if you already …
Using requestAnimationFrame with React Hooks
Animating with requestAnimationFrame should be easy, but if you haven’t read React’s documentation thoroughly then you will probably run into a few things that might …
Other Ways to SPAs
That rhymed lolz. I mentioned on a podcast the other day that I sorta think WordPress should ship with Turbolinks. It’s a rather simple premise: …
Let’s Build a JAMstack E-Commerce Store with Netlify Functions
A lot of people are confused about what JAMstack is. The acronym stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markup, but truly, JAMstack doesn’t have to include …
Lazy load embedded YouTube videos
I was working on this simple static website that should have an YouTube video displayed right on the landing page. So I went my merry …
Using rel=”preconnect” to establish network connections early and increase performance
Milica Mihajlija: Adding rel=preconnect to a <link> informs the browser that your page intends to establish a connection to another domain, and that you’d like …
Bounce Element Around Viewport in CSS
Let’s say you were gonna bounce an element all around a screen, sorta like an old school screensaver or Pong or something. You’d probably be …
Can you view print stylesheets applied directly in the browser?
Yep. Let’s take a look at how to do it in different browsers. Although note the date of this blog post. This stuff tends to …
Draggin’ and Droppin’ in React
The React ecosystem offers us a lot of libraries that all are focused on the interaction of drag and drop. We have react-dnd, react-beautiful-dnd, react-drag-n-drop …
Accessibility and web performance are not features, they’re the baseline
This week I’ve been brooding about web performance and accessibility. It all began when Ethan Marcotte made a lot of great notes about the accessibility …
Weekly Platform News: HTML Loading Attribute, the Main ARIA Specifications, and Moving from iFrame to Shadow DOM
In this week’s roundup of platform news, Chrome introduces a new attribute for loading, accessibility specifications for web developers, and the BBC moves visualizations to …
Upcoming Changes to Let’s Encrypt Plugin
Earlier this year, Let’s Encrypt announced the end of life (EOL) plan for their original API. Starting this November, they will no longer allow new …
The Making of an Animated Favicon
It’s the first thing your eyes look for when you’re switching tabs. That’s one way of explaining what a favicon is. The tab area is …
Staggered CSS Transitions
Let’s say you wanted to move an element on :hover for a fun visual effect. @media (hover: hover) { .list–item { transition: 0.1s; transform: translateY(10px); …
Contextual Utility Classes for Color with Custom Properties
In CSS, we have the ability to access currentColor which is tremendously useful. Sadly, we do not have access to anything like currentBackgroundColor, and the …
The Differing Perspectives on CSS-in-JS
Some people outright hate the idea of CSS-in-JS. Just that name is offensive. Hard no. Styling doesn’t belong in JavaScript, it belongs in CSS, a …
Need help asking your boss to attend WebPros Summit?
The upcoming WebPros Summit 2019 is almost upon us! In talking with different members of the community, a common theme pops up from those who …
All the New ES2019 Tips and Tricks
The ECMAScript standard has been updated yet again with the addition of new features in ES2019. Now officially available in node, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari …
Joomla 3.9.11 Release
Joomla 3.9.11 is now available. This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses one security vulnerability and contains over …
Site Monetization with Coil (and Removing Ads for Supporters)
I’ve tried a handful of websites based on “tip with micropayments” in the past. They come and go. That’s fine. From a publisher perspective, it’s …
In Search of a Stack That Monitors the Quality and Complexity of CSS
Many developers write about how to maintain a CSS codebase, yet not a lot of them write about how they measure the quality of that …
Moving Text on a Curved Path
There was a fun article in The New York Times the other day describing the fancy way Elizabeth Warren and her staff let people take …
Building a Full-Stack Serverless Application with Cloudflare Workers
One of my favorite developments in software development has been the advent of serverless. As a developer who has a tendency to get bogged down …