Mittwoch 13:43 – Durgesh Rajubhai Pawar at CSS-Tricks
The warning is correct. And the recommended fixes you’ve probably seen are wrong. Here’s what you can do instead to properly fix the issue.Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Dienstag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their architectural rationale for building a digital stress-relief squeeze toy game using Lottie animations, DOM events, and distance-based math to maintain absolute control over their designers’ intentional motion.
Border images are an overlooked feature. One neat fact is that border image slices can run across entire borders on an element, and animating it creates beautiful effects.Animating CSS border-image originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Smashing Magazine’s in-person conferences are back and returning to the wonderful city of Freiburg next month, September 7–10.SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Sonntag 9:42 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
WordPress 7.0 adds responsive Block Visibility controls for the Block Editor. Learn how to create separate desktop and mobile blocks, hide each one by device, and test the result.
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Sonntag 9:39 – Paul Andrew at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Transform photos and graphics into vintage-inspired pieces using our collection of the best Photoshop actions for creating retro and vintage photo effects.
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Sonntag 9:37 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
AI search is changing how people reach websites. This article shows how to make WordPress more AEO friendly with robots.txt, sitemaps, agent readiness checks, Markdown output, and helpful resources.
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Freitag 13:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies and finding what the web platform can now handle for you.
Freitag 9:50 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Booking projects is a challenge for every new WordPress agency. So, you often take what you can get. That includes low-revenue and otherwise unappealing gigs. Everyone has to start somewhere,…
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Donnerstag 17:22 – Paul Andrew at Speckyboy Design Magazine
Create professional, engaging, and visually appealing presentations quickly and easily with these free Keynote templates.
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A few notes and takeaways from the 2026 State of CSS survey results, including a nice CSS-Tricks cameo!2026 State of CSS, Devs Surveys originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Mittwoch 12:53 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
A collection of the best free WordPress plugins for creating user-friendly and responsive sliders, carousels, and slideshows.
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Today, with CSS gap decorations fully supported in Chrome and Edge, starting with version 149, you can now very easily style gaps, and with a lot of control.Gap Decorations Are Now Available, Here’s What’s New originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
We recently got the shape() function and corner-shape property. What else could we possibly need as far as making shapes in CSS? Let me tell you: the border-shape property!Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property! originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
The soon-Baseline sibling-index() function for animations, CSS and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, use cases for the infinity keyword, container „stuck“ queries, and more.What’s !important #16: sibling-index() Animations, Use Cases for the infinity Keyword, Container Stuck Queries, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Freitag 8:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Whether you’re enjoying some well-earned time off this August or are jumping headfirst into a new project, how about some new desktop wallpapers to accompany you on all those big and small adventures the month might bring? Well, we’ve got you covered!
Mittwoch 13:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
As AI reshapes product design, it could give designers greater autonomy or expose the gaps that autonomy makes harder to hide. Exploring both the bull and bear cases, Andy Budd examines what happens when designers need less permission to act.
Dienstag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Many of the AI tools we interact with take the form of text boxes. But what if there was a different way to interact with AI? Oleksii Hrzhehorzhevskyi explores a different approach to creating a new AI assistant and how designers can navigate the field as AI continues to change it.
Sonntag 9:24 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
In case you didn’t notice, it’s getting more expensive to ride the AI bandwagon. Web professionals are using the technology to do more than write code. We’re also employing it…
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Dienstag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
While React Server Components rely on the custom Flight protocol to stream interactive UIs, this same mechanism introduces powerful deserialization sinks that attackers can exploit. Durgesh Pawar breaks down the mechanics behind the CVSS 10.0 “React2Shell” vulnerability to show how protocol manipulation can lead to remote code execution.
The writing-mode CSS property sets whether lines of text are laid out horizontally or vertically, and the direction in which blocks and lines progress.
.element {
writing-mode: vertical-rl;
}
This is most useful in languages such as Chinese, Japanese or …writing-mode originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Sonntag 9:38 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
A collection of color grading LUTs for Lightroom to refine tones and styles. They’re ideal for creating cinematic, vibrant, or moody aesthetics in photography and video projects.
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Freitag 8:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
The common rule of thumb is to never “block” the browser’s main thread when running JavaScript tasks. But is this a hard rule? Victor Ayomipo describes a use case he encountered involving a screenshot extension where he made an exception to the rule and decided that blocking the main thread was absolutely the right thing to do.
The pointer-events property controls whether an element can become the target of pointer events like clicks, hover states, and other pointer-based events. In other words, it lets you decide whether the browser should treat an element as interactive when the …pointer-events originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Mittwoch 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Many companies assume everyone craves new AI features. But the reality is that most people don’t want more AI — at least not in the way most AI leaders envision it. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video courses on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
Read all about boundary-aware CSS, accessible grid lanes, time-based web designs, full-bleed, the customizable select, and new web platform features.What’s !important #15: Boundary-aware CSS, Time-based CSS, Full-bleed CSS, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
Samstag 12:30 – Eric Karkovack at Speckyboy Design Magazine
WordPress 7.0 brings AI integration through the Connectors API, but not every task needs it. Learn how to judge when AI saves time, when plugins are enough, and how token costs affect the decision.
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Freitag 13:10 – Paul Andrew at Speckyboy Design Magazine
A curated collection of free futuristic display fonts. They’re all perfect for design projects that need a modern, forward-thinking aesthetic.
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Freitag 13:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
The strongest visual concepts don’t start in Figma. They start with the right questions. Explore the pre-concept phase of brand identity design, where teams research brand context, uncover hidden assumptions with stakeholders, and turn shared direction into a visual foundation before a single concept is created.
Donnerstag 15:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Many UI trends are designed to capture attention and signal innovation, but those goals often conflict with the needs of mental health apps: reducing cognitive strain, fostering trust, and providing a sense of refuge. Kat Homan introduces an evaluation framework that helps designers assess whether trendy visual and interaction patterns support or undermine the unique goals of mental health experiences.
Dienstag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
We have been building websites inside boxes for years on WordPress. Let’s take a closer look at [Kirki](https://kirki.com/), the first freeform visual builder with an infinite canvas, and explore how it redefines the experience with cleaner performance, full design freedom, and zero plugin dependency.
Freitag 13:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
A closer look at why users don’t need more tools in their daily lives. What they need are seamless integrations of useful features to match already existing, established mental models. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video course on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
Donnerstag 10:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
We’ve fallen into conversational tunnel vision, defaulting every AI capability into a chat-based interface simply because LLMs are trained on dialogue data. But great UX is about matching modality to users’ context, intent, and cognitive load, so the interface adapts to the user, not the other way around.
I know you’re busy, so for What’s !important #14, I’ll be sprinting through what’s been a stacked couple of weeks despite few browser updates. From CSS Quake to CSS Gap Decorations, this isn’t one to miss!What’s !important #14: Gap Decorations, random(),
Dienstag 12:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
Teams can generate UI faster than ever, but they still have to guarantee that what they ship is usable, secure, and maintainable. Accessibility as an operational capability rather than a compliance checklist or end-of-project audit, and what that looks like in practice.
Dienstag 11:00 – at Articles on Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
July is just around the corner, and that means… It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! As every month, the wallpapers in this collection were created by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
CSS has always had pseudo-classes that style things based on user interactions. Recent features, however, are blurring the line between what CSS „listens“ for and how they are alternatives to what Javascript typically listens for.The Shifting Line Between CSS States and JavaScript Events originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
The translateZ() function moves an element closer to or farther from the user.translateZ() originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.