Sonntag 10:33 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Built from scratch WordPress themes are not gone quite yet. We explain how blocks changed WordPress theme development and give clear examples of when going custom still makes sense.
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Samstag 18:28 – Paul Andrew at Speckyboy Design Magazine
We share a curated selection of the best free ultra-bold and heavy fonts available. These are the heavy fonts you’ve been looking for!
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It’s easy to think of HTML Web Components as a recent feature, but it has roots that go all the way back to 1998.HTML Web Components Proposal From 1998 originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Freitag 15:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Explainable AI isn’t just a challenge for data scientists. It’s also a design challenge and a core pillar of trustworthy, effective AI products. Victor Yocco offers practical guidance and design patterns for building explainability into real products.
Donnerstag 18:45 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
When the web goes down, web designers are caught between providers and clients. Get practical advice on checking issues, sharing clear updates, and staying calm.
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A good measure makes reading text comfortable, while a bad one makes it more difficult. So, rather than allowing layout to dictate the measure, doesn’t it make more sense for the measure to inform layout decisions?Getting Creative With “The Measure” originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Donnerstag 10:33 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Plan ahead on client projects with smart WordPress theme and plugin choices that reduce risk, cut emergency fixes, and keep your sites running smoothly for years.
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Donnerstag 7:02 – Paul Andrew at Speckyboy Design Magazine
A collection of professional After Effects broadcast packages and templates for motion designers. All with stunning visuals and elegant graphics.
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Unconvinced of the value of scrollytelling? Alright, skeptic, let’s first warm up with some common use cases for scroll-based styling.Scrollytelling on Steroids With Scroll-State Queries originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Dienstag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
CSS Masonry is almost here! Patrick Brosset takes a deep dive into what this long-awaited feature means for web developers and how you could make use of it in your own work.
Dienstag 8:16 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Learn how Telex from Automattic helps you build custom WordPress blocks with plain language prompts, test them in Playground, and export them as installable plugins.
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Bramus:Chrome 144 features a small change to overscroll-behavior: it now also works on non-scrollable scroll containers. While this change might seem trivial, it fixes an issue developers have been dealing with for ages: prevent a page from…Prevent a page from scrolling while a dialog is open originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Montag 8:25 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
We explore what two-factor authentication actually is and take a look at a few WordPress plugins that will help you add this feature with minimal effort.
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Sonntag 9:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
With December just around the corner, how about some new desktop wallpapers to welcome the last month of the year — and the holiday season, if you’re celebrating? Our latest edition of monthly wallpapers has got you covered. Enjoy!
Donnerstag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
CAPTCHAs were meant to keep bots out, but too often, they lock people with disabilities out, too. From image classification to click-based tests, many “human checks” are anything but inclusive. There’s no universal solution, but understanding real user needs is where accessibility truly starts.
Dienstag 18:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
We’re so happy to announce that “Maturing Design Systems”—a Smashing book by Ben Callahan — will soon be joining the Smashing Library! Ben’s insights and advice are so powerful, we thought you might like to read an excerpt from the book. Subscribe to our Smashing newsletter to be notified when orders are open.
There are many ways to share properties, but what would it look like to inherit and use any parent property value on a child?On Inheriting and Sharing Property Values originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Montag 13:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Practical guidelines on designing time-critical products that prevent errors and improve accuracy. Part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 IMPACT to save 20% off today). With a live UX training starting next week.
Sonntag 16:17 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
A collection of the best anti-spam WordPress plugins that will cut fake comments, form entries, signups, and email scraping, so you can keep your site safer and cleaner.
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Sketch probably didn’t „have“ to redesign its UI to line up with macOS Tahoe, but a big part of its appeal is the fact that it feels like it totally belongs to the Mac.Sketch: A guided tour of Copenhagen originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Freitag 8:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Animations can be one of the most joyful parts of building interfaces, but without structure, they can also become one of the biggest sources of frustration. By consolidating and standardizing keyframes, you take something that is usually messy and hard to manage and turn it into a clear, predictable system.
Donnerstag 15:10 – Sunkanmi Fafowora at CSS-Tricks
Is there really a difference between using :not(:open) and :closed? As always, it depends. Sunkanmi Fafowora explains why :closed is currently not a thing.Should We Even Have :closed? originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
As the web continues to be the medium for all users, standards bodies need to continue to provide new APIs to enrich user experience and accessibility. One underused API for unsighted users is speechSynthesis, an API to programmatically direct the browser to audibly speak any arbitrary string. The Code You can direct the browser to […]
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Setting up a new computer is bliss — no old, unused apps and the machine performs much better than the previous. Unfortunately, you may encounter new problems based on the new hardware. One such issue I encountered with my new MacBook was a “This video format is not supported” message when I went to YouTube […]
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If we have a ratio that represents the sine, cosine or tangent of an angle, how can we get the original angle? This is where inverse trigonometric functions come in!The “Most Hated” CSS Feature: asin(), acos(), atan() and atan2() originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Sonntag 11:09 – Paul Andrew at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Black Friday brings huge savings on WordPress hosting. See which hosts offer real value, solid performance, and lasting discounts this year.
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Samstag 16:28 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Should freelance designers or developers list prices on their website? Learn the pros and cons of public pricing, from setting expectations to avoiding undercutting competitors.
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The extremely new framework that caught lots of attention will continue as a personal project.Quiet UI Came and Went, Quiet as a Mouse originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Freitag 13:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Debugging controllers can be a real pain. Here’s a deep dive into how CSS helps clean it up and how to build a reusable visual debugger for your own projects.
Being able to use the range syntax with container style queries — which we can do starting with Chrome 142 — means that we can compare literal numeric values as well as numeric values tokenized by custom properties or the attr() function.The Range Syntax Has Come to Container Style Queries and if() originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Donnerstag 8:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
There are many existing web features and technologies in the wild that you may never touch directly in your day-to-day work. Perhaps you’re fairly new to web development and are simply unaware of them because you’re steeped in the abstraction of a specific framework that doesn’t require you to know it deeply, or even at all. Bryan Rasmussen looks specifically at XPath and demonstrates how it can be used alongside CSS to query elements.
Dienstag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
There are lots of tips for [improving your website performance](https://www.debugbear.com/blog/improve-website-performance?utm_campaign=sm-10). But even if you follow all of the advice, are you able to maintain an optimized site? And are you targeting the right pages? Matt Zeunert outlines an effective strategy for web performance optimization and explains the roles that different types of data play in it.
A few links about headings that I’ve had stored under my top hat.Headings: Semantics, Fluidity, and Styling — Oh My! originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
Freitag 15:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
SVG is one of those web technologies that’s both elegant and, at times, infuriating. In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke explains his technique for animating SVG elements that are hidden in the Shadow DOM.