Does anyone know any other fonts similar to Helvetica Neue (free for commercial use)? I’m working on a big website project where ‘Helvetica Neue’ is used heavily. I need a font that looks almost the same, is free for personal and commercial use, and looks good even when used with copytext (e.g. fontsize for copytext = 11px, for headlines = …

People enjoy using their smartphones because they can accomplish many things on the go such as reading e-mails, social networking, watching movies and plenty of other activities. We enjoy smartphones because they have many applications that make everyday activities easier. If you are thinking of developing for the mobile application market, an important decision is to decide between developing a …

Media queries are the core technology behind Responsive Web Design yet, despite a plethora of options, few of us dare venture beyond min-width (and possibly max-width), i.e. via 5 Uses for Vertical Media Queries.

When I started with web development a few years ago, Vim was my first choice of text editor. It was easy to work with and I could get the basics done without much hassle. Also, many developers like terminal based text editors because they get the same environment in both their local development machines and remote servers. In spite of …

One of the best ways to keep code consistent, reusable, and organized, is to group functionality together. For example, rather than dumping all your JavaScript into one main.js file, consider grouping it into separate files based on functionality, then concatenating them once you reach your build step. Of course, there’s a lot more to writing modular code, and you can …

At CodePen.io, they describe themselves as a “playground for the front-end side of the web.” CodePen is great for testing out bugs, collaborating, and finding new inspiration. It works by allowing you to create “pens”, which are sets of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You can then display those pens on your profile, take feedback, and continue to edit those pens …

There are dozens of popular tools to help theme developers test the quality of their code. Not only can this help reduce errors in your themes, but it also helps ensure that your theme is reliably rendered on multiple devices and browsers. Also, with WordPress performance being such a hot topic, the ability to identify potential performance issues while you’re …

As we all know, media queries are responsive design’s secret sauce. Here are some considerations for crafting high-quality media queries: via 7 Habits of Highly Effective Media Queries | Brad Frost Web.

This article is going to take a look at Brackets, an open-sourced editor originally developed by Adobe. It may not have had quite the same level of publicity and hype as Atom, GitHub’s new lightweight editor, but it’s a promising option for the front end developer. via A Review of the Brackets Editor.