The control which designers know in the print medium, and often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility. But first, we must ‘accept the ebb and flow of things.’ via Responsive Web Design …
Improve the performance of a website by automating the testing and building process to improve the development workflow. Watch as Aurelio gives you a tour of Grunt. Grunt can speed up your workflow by automating repetitive tasks including minifying JavaScript and CSS files, removing unused CSS declarations from your style sheets, and parse CSS files to add vendor-prefixes where needed. …
As a web developer, chances are you have a mid to high end hosting plan with a large amount of resources you probably don’t come close to using.You might also be using customer relationship management CRM software, invoicing suites, commercial air conditioning, project management portals and much more which could be burning a hole in your wallet.While managed cloud services …
Apart from the usual charts and graphs libraries used to create interactive data visualizations already covered here, which can present a steep learning curve as a price for their powerful versatility, there are many less known JavaScript libraries that specifically address a visualization type. They come very handy when you deal with illustrating content from data journalism with an interactive …
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Mastering WordPress Cron for Scheduling Events via Mastering WordPress Cron for Scheduling Events.
Forms elements! They’re a pain to style, aren’t they? It’s tempting to replace them altogether, with some custom markup and CSS of our own design. The trouble is, the resultant rat’s nest of divs and spans will lack the semantic and behavioral qualities that made the standard type="radio" input accessible. via Replacing Radio Buttons Without Replacing Radio Buttons.
If you’re starting a website – be it a news site, a blog or an ecommerce site, chances are that you consider using WordPress. Once users begin to warm to the website as it gains popularity, core WordPress might not be enough to handle the incoming traffic efficiently. You will then need to scale up your website to handle the …
Once you’ve gone to the trouble of converting your workflow over to Sass, it’s easy to fall into familiar patterns. You may be so pleased with the power of what Sass can do with a few simple techniques that you never bother to explore some of the more advanced features. There are many advantages to using a powerful pre-processor like …