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Who has the fastest website in F1?
2.4.2019
Jake Archibald looks at the websites of Formula One race teams and rates their performance, carefully examining their images and digging into the waterfall of assets for each site:
Trying to use a site while on poor connectivity is massively frustrating, so anything sites can do to make it less...
A historical look at lowercase defaultstatus
1.4.2019
Browsers, thank heavens, take backward compatibility seriously.
Ancient websites generally work just fine on modern browsers. There is a way higher chance that a website is broken because of problems with hosting, missing or altered assets, or server changes than there is with changes in...
Deliver Responsive and Art Directed Images For Your Website with ImageKit
26.3.2019
Images are essential for all websites. Whether it is product images for an e-commerce store, photographs of picturesque locations on a travel website or images to support the content of a blog
Web Accessibility For Beginners
21.3.2019
Building accessible applications or websites is not the norm today. This is because the idea of accessibility is known to most developers, while in actual sense it is often neglected and not a comm
React Starter: Getting Started with React (2019 Edition)
18.3.2019
React is the uber popular JavaScript library that is almost everywhere you look these days. Learning React opens up a whole new way to build front-end experiences like websites, mobile apps, and mo
Application Holotypes
13.3.2019
It's entirely too common to make broad-sweeping statements about all websites. Jason Miller:
We often make generalizations about applications we see in the wild, both anecdotal and statistical: "Single-Page Applications are slower than multipage" or "apps with low TTI loaded fast". However,...
Inspirational Websites Roundup #2
5.3.2019
The second compilation of inspiring website designs with some unique picks to get your creative juices flowing.
Inspirational Websites Roundup #2 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Writing Animations That Bring Your Site to Life
22.2.2019
Web animation is one of the factors that can strongly enhance your website’s look and feel. Sadly, unlike mobile apps, there aren’t as many websites using animation to their benefit as you would think. We don’t want to count yours among those, so this article is for you and anyone else looking...
Code Challenge #16: Infinite Scroll Unsplash Gallery
14.2.2019
Photos and media in general play a great part of websites and inefficient handling may lead to loss of site performance and ultimately, users. In this week's challenge, we will build a photo galler
“the closest thing web standards have to a golden rule”
14.2.2019
The internet's own Mat Marquis plucks this choice quote from the HTML Design Principals spec:
In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity.
And then he applies the idea to putting images on websites in 2019.
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Django Authentication With Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn
7.2.2019
Introduction
For users of internet services, there are only a few things worse than having to manually sign in (and sign-up) with different websites. The ordeal of the manual sign-in proce
Inspirational Websites Roundup #1
4.2.2019
The first edition of a new series that aims to showcase inspirational website designs.
Inspirational Websites Roundup #1 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Forms that Move With You with Wufoo
31.1.2019
I've been into the idea of JAMstack lately. In fact, it was at the inaugural JAMstack_conf that I gave a talked called The All-Powerful Font-End Developer. My overall point there was that there are all these services that we can leverage as front-end developers to build complete websites without...
Amazing User Agent API with userstack
17.1.2019
We do our best to design and code websites so that they look and perform the way they should regardless of device or browser, but the truth is we sometimes we need to code for specific device, browser, or crawler. Whether it’s a quick hack or a simply wanting to display different content...
Inspirational Websites from 2018
18.12.2018
An inspirational collection of our favourite website designs from 2018.
Inspirational Websites from 2018 was written by Mary Lou and published on Codrops
Nobody is quite wrong.
17.12.2018
There are two opposing views on using non-polyfillable new web features that I find are both equally common in our industry:
Websites don't need to look the same in every browser. The concept of progressive enhancement helps with that. There are tools, even native language features, that help with...
10 Outstanding Examples of Websites Using WebGL
29.11.2018
You may ask: what is so special in WebGL? Why are coding artists so obsessed with it? The answer is simple. We are living in an era of non-static...
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WDRL — Edition 243: Windows Edge 18, Developing Websites for Apple Watch, Free Fonts, and Being Behind Work.
5.10.2018
Hey,
this morning I spent about one and a half hours in the forest nearby. Although it’s rare that I manage to go out of my door and into nature so early, every time I do it is amazing. Nature can boost your mind, your body. Being grounded in forest, just with nature and maybe some animals around...
Sometimes `sizes` is quite important.
27.7.2018
Paraphrased question from email:
I just read your article Responsive Images: If you’re just changing resolutions, use srcset. In the age of "responsive websites," srcset does not help in certain situations. For example, I have a popular products slider. On mobile, I have one image per slide where...
Developer Roadmaps
23.7.2018
The path to becoming a front-end developer, as looked back upon by anyone who self-identifies that way, is likely a very windy one full of thorn bushes and band websites. Still, documenting a path, even if it's straighter and far cleaner than reality, is an interesting exercise and might just...