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How I Work: Yahoo!’s Doug Crockford On JavaScript

From Jacob Cook
April 27th, 2012
16 Comments

Welcome to the first in a new series of interviews called “How I Work”. These interviews revolve around how thinkers and creators in the Web world design, code, and create. The goal is not to get into the specific nuances of their craft (as that information already exists online), but rather ...

Sidenote: LiveReload For Better Workflow

From Keir Whitaker
October 7th, 2011
2 Comments

Welcome to the first entry in a new series on Smashing Coding called Sidenotes. Sidenotes are shorter than traditional Smashing Magazine articles and are designed to give you a quick introduction to useful tools and services. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be looking at productivity aids, useful apps, essential ...

Cleaning Up The Mess: How To Keep Your Coding Workflow Organized

From Bryan Hoyt
January 19th, 2011
61 Comments

Oops, we used the word “organized” in the title. Time to switch off — is probably what many would think. Being organized is a somewhat dull, though important, subject. Perhaps it would help to give it a bit of context. Let’s keep it classy, and imagine we’re building a website for ...

Creating And Distributing Presentations On The Web

From Christian Heilmann
January 7th, 2011
23 Comments

Delivering great presentations is an art, and preparing the slides for them very much so, too. But we’re not going to talk about that. We’re also not going to get into the debate about whether to use open or closed technologies to create slide decks — this is something you ...

The Poetics Of Coding

From Matt Ward
May 5th, 2010
113 Comments

There is little doubt that WordPress is one of the most popular blogging and content management platforms out there today. This is not an article about WordPress, though, but rather a more general musing on one of its thought-provoking taglines: “Code Is Poetry.” That’s an interesting metaphor. Recently, I’ve written about ...

12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean

From Chris Coyier
November 12th, 2008
234 Comments

Beautiful HTML is the foundation of a beautiful website. When I teach people about CSS, I always begin by telling them that good CSS can only exist with equally good HTML markup. A house is only as strong as its foundation, right? The advantages of clean, semantic HTML are many, ...

7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code

From Tony White
August 18th, 2008
117 Comments

Some of you may remember the days when 30KB was the recommended maximum size of a web page, a value which included HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and images. I find with every new project with even the slightest bit of complexity, it’s not long before that 30 KB ideal ...

Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides

From Vitaly Friedman
May 2nd, 2008
78 Comments

Once your latest project is finished, you are very likely to forget the structure of the project’s layout, with all its numerous classes, color schemes and type setting. To understand your code years after you’ve written it you need to make use of sensible code structuring. The latter can dramatically ...

70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding

From Vitaly Friedman
May 10th, 2007
184 Comments

CSS isn’t always easy to deal with. Depending on your skills and your experience, CSS coding can sometimes become a nightmare, particularly if you aren’t sure which selectors are actually being applied to document elements. An easy way to minimize the complexity of the code is as useful as not-so-well-known ...