As a developer or design professional, one of the biggest benefits of building your sites on WordPress is that in most cases you are building your code on a proven platform which has been fortified over time. Unfortunately when it comes to security, there’s no such thing as a fully hack-proof system. Fortunately though when it comes to securing both …
Modern web applications are not only complex to design but also quite difficult to develop. Given the range of tools involved, amount of testing required, and the combination of libraries/frameworks used, the development process has become harder. As the application scales over a period of time, it becomes harder to maintain the code and make enhancements. For instance, take a …
Have you been reading all the blog posts about the CSS architecture at various companies out there? No? Check out the ones for GitHub, CodePen, Lonely Planet, Medium, and Buffer. I can’t get enough of them. via Refining The Way We Structure Our CSS At Trello | Trello Blog.
From local businesses to Google, IT breaches can happen to anyone. According to IBM, there were 1.5 million monitored cyber attacks in the United States last year. Organizations are attacked an average of 16,856 times per year, and many of these attacks result in quantifiable data breaches. A moderate attack costs an average of $38,065 per minute of downtime. With …
With the release of version 3, Bootstrap has gone mobile first, building on its already responsive base. What kinds of things does Bootstrap include in its CSS to help with this? Let’s examine a few things and gain some insight that might help us in our own custom projects. via Responsive Web Design Tips from Bootstrap’s CSS.
You might be aware of Google Analytics’ Experiments feature, but it can be a little intimidating if you’ve never used it. There’s no need to be scared, though: Setting up an experiment is actually quite simple. In this article we’ll walk through to how to set up Google Experiments step by step, but first let’s take a minute to review …
Repositories, Adapters, MVC with all it cousins, SOLID, RTFM… As a (PHP) developer, those words are thrown at you from every corner of the web. And I hate it, I’ve had enough. Stop telling me what to do and show me those kittens instead. via MVC – a Problem or a Solution?.
Gmail overtook Hotmail as the world’s most popular webmail platform in 2012, and hasn’t slowed down since. It’s still #1, and many more people who don’t have @gmail.com email addresses use the interface with Google Apps for its ease of use and flexibility. Another reason Gmail is so popular is because of the huge amount of add-ons that are available …
Today Smashing Magazine turns eight years old. Eight years is a long time on the web, yet for us it really doesn’t feel like a long journey at all. Things have changed, evolved and moved on, and we gratefully take on new challenges one at a time. To mark this special little day, we’d love to share a few things …
If you have worked with responsive design, you have probably used media queries. Media queries are a clean and simple way to create responsive websites using CSS. They work by allowing you to change the style of the page when the user’s screen is a certain size. Here is a simple example: via Media Queries: A Look at Different Media …