A few days ago, I spoke at WebTech Conference 2014 giving a presentation titled Talking and listening to web pages where I discussed the Web Speech API and what a developer can do with it to improve the user experience. This talk was inspired by two articles I wrote for SitePoint titled Introducing the Web Speech API and Talking Web …
Improving workflow and increasing productivity is very important to us developers. Every second counts since the time we spend on small tasks adds up. Small tasks like our Git commands are something that we do on a daily basis. Today we’ll be looking at a quick way to improve our Git workflow with our favorite editor, Sublime Text. via Using …
CSS shapes allow us to move away from boxy designs, towards organic magazine style layouts. In the photo below the text follows the contours of the image, as well as being shaped into a ball. Thanks to iOS 8, we can explore similar creative layouts in email by wrapping content around polygons, standard shapes like ‘circle‘ or an images alpha …
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 …
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.
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 …
Making an application work offline can be a daunting task. In this article, Matthew Andrews, a lead developer behind FT Labs, shares a few insights he had learned along the way while building the FT application. Matthew will also be running a “Making It Work Offline” workshop at our upcoming Smashing Conference in Freiburg in mid-September 2014. — Ed. via Building …
Thanks to the addition of cameras to our mobile devices taking photos has become easier than ever. No longer are we forced to struggle through text or an actual phone conversation to describe an object, person or scene. With a simple click of a button and the press of the good old trusty “send” button we are only seconds (depending …
Many times on SitePoint I’ve mentioned how achieving good performance is a main concern today and how you should strive for fast web pages. In some articles of mine about JavaScript APIs, such as Introduction to the Resource Timing API and Discovering the User Timing API, I gave you all the power you need to know what’s slowing down your …
Over the past couple of years, the differentiation between front- and back-end web development has become much more distinctive. While traditional programming skills used to be the domain of the back-end via Git & GitHub for Front-End Developers.
