Posts Tagged ‘Workflow’
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Starting An Open-Source Project
- January 3rd, 2013
- 21 Comments
At Velocity 2011, Nicole Sullivan and I introduced CSS Lint, the first code-quality tool for CSS. We had spent the previous two weeks coding like crazy, trying to create an application that was both useful for end users and easy to modify. Neither of us had any experience launching an ...
Read more...How I Work: Yahoo!’s Doug Crockford On JavaScript
- 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 ...
Read more...Sidenote: LiveReload For Better Workflow
- 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 ...
Read more...Cleaning Up The Mess: How To Keep Your Coding Workflow Organized
- 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 ...
Read more...Creating And Distributing Presentations On The Web
- January 7th, 2011
- 24 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 ...
Read more...The Poetics Of Coding
- 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 ...
Read more...12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean
- November 12th, 2008
- 235 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, ...
Read more...7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code
- 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 ...
Read more...Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides
- May 2nd, 2008
- 80 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 ...
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