Posts Tagged ‘Techniques’
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CSS Sprites Revisited
- April 11th, 2012
- 80 Comments
I’m pretty confident that I won’t surprise anyone here by saying that CSS sprites have been around for quite a while now, rearing their somewhat controversial heads in the Web development sphere as early as 2003. Still, the CSS sprite hasn’t truly found its way into the everyday toolkit of the ...
Read more...Device-Agnostic Approach To Responsive Web Design
- March 22nd, 2012
- 66 Comments
This is a different take on Responsive Web design. This article discusses how we can better embrace what the Web is about by ignoring the big elephant in the room; that is, how we can rely on media queries and breakpoints without any concern for devices. Let’s start our journey by ...
Read more...How To Set Up A Print Style Sheet
- November 24th, 2011
- 33 Comments
In a time when everyone seems to have a tablet, which makes it possible to consume everything digitally, and the only real paper we use is bathroom tissue, it might seem odd to write about the long-forgotten habit of printing a Web page. Nevertheless, as odd as it might seem ...
Read more...A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript
- October 4th, 2011
- 46 Comments
In school, I hated math. It was a dire, dry and boring thing with stuffy old books and very theoretical problems. Even worse, a lot of the tasks were repetitive, with a simple logical change in every iteration (dividing numbers by hand, differentials, etc.). It was exactly the reason why ...
Read more...Searchable Dynamic Content With AJAX Crawling
- September 27th, 2011
- 23 Comments
Google Search likes simple, easy-to-crawl websites. You like dynamic websites that show off your work and that really pop. But search engines can’t run your JavaScript. That cool AJAX routine that loads your content is hurting your SEO. Google’s robots parse HTML with ease; they can pull apart Word documents, ...
Read more...Create An Animated Bar Graph With HTML, CSS And jQuery
- September 23rd, 2011
- 89 Comments
People in boardrooms across the world love a good graph. They go nuts for PowerPoint, bullet points and phrases like “run it up the flagpole,” “blue-sky thinking” and “low-hanging fruit,” and everything is always “moving forward.” Backwards is not an option for people who facilitate paradigm shifts in the zeitgeist. ...
Read more...Optimize Images With HTML5 Canvas
- August 30th, 2011
- 48 Comments
Images have always been the heaviest component of websites. Even if high-speed Internet access gets cheaper and more widely available, websites will get heavier more quickly. If you really care about your visitors, then spend some time deciding between good-quality images that are bigger in size and poorer-quality images that ...
Read more...Techniques For Gracefully Degrading Media Queries
- August 10th, 2011
- 35 Comments
Media queries are the third pillar in Ethan Marcotte’s implementation of responsive design. Without media queries, fluid layouts would struggle to adapt to the array of screen sizes on the hundreds of devices out there. Fluid layouts can appear cramped and unreadable on small mobile devices and too large and ...
Read more...Learning To Use The :before And :after Pseudo-Elements In CSS
- July 13th, 2011
- 60 Comments
If you’ve been keeping tabs on various Web design blogs, you’ve probably noticed that the :before and :after pseudo-elements have been getting quite a bit of attention in the front-end development scene — and for good reason. In particular, the experiments of one blogger — namely, London-based developer Nicolas Gallagher — have given pseudo-elements quite a ...
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