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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...
Deliver your best work with the help of monday.com
21.2.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Here's the situation: You've bashed out a complicated design over two weeks of near full-time effort, gotten everything down to the exact spec of the design file, turn it in for stakeholder review and... you're way off scope. Turns out a few folks on the team put their...
Deliver your best work with the help of monday.com
21.2.2019
(This is a sponsored post.)
Here's the situation: You've bashed out a complicated design over two weeks of near full-time effort, gotten everything down to the exact spec of the design file, turn it in for stakeholder review and... you're way off scope. Turns out a few folks on the team put their...
CSS Variables + calc() + rgb() = Enforcing High Contrast Colors
21.2.2019
As you may know, the recent updates and additions to CSS are extremely powerful. From Flexbox to Grid, and — what we’re concerned about here — Custom Properties (aka CSS variables), all of which make robust and dynamic layouts and interfaces easier than ever while opening up many other...
Colorful Typographic Experiments
21.2.2019
There have been some interesting, boundary-pushing typography-related experiments lately. I was trying to think of a joke like "somethings in the descenders" but I just can't find something that will stand on its own leg without being easy to counter.
Codrin Pavel created a fascinating multi-color...
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20.2.2019
Did you see this Facebook crap?
"Why do I need a 4Ghz quadcore to run facebook?" This is why. A single word split up into 11 HTML DOM elements to avoid adblockers. pic.twitter.com/Zv4RfInrL0
— Mike Pan (@themikepan) February 6, 2019
I popped over to Facebook to verify that and what...
Diana Smith’s Top 5 CSS Properties She Uses to Produce CSS Art
20.2.2019
Have you seen Diana Smith's CSS drawings? Stunning. These far transcend the CSS drawings that sort of crudely replicate a flat SVG scene, like I might attempt. We were lucky enough for her to post some of her CSS drawing techniques here last year.
Well, Diana has also listed the top five...
Building a Landing Page Fast Using the Visual Composer Website Builder (Sponsored)
20.2.2019
What if it were possible to build a landing page from top to bottom, including a header and a footer, and do so without any need for writing code? And even if it was possible, could you reasonably expect to do so as easily and quickly as putting together a puzzle designed for children...
Authentication and Authorization With Flask-Login
20.2.2019
Allowing users to login to your app is one of the most common features you'll add to a web app you build. This article will cover how to add simple authentication to your Flask app. The main packag
Crypto Tax Season: What you need to know
20.2.2019
The basics to keep in mind when filing your tax returns involving cryptocurrencies this year. From the CMC Editorial Desk: It’s… taaaax season. Before you panic, what do you need to know as you’re filing returns on your crypto? Find […]
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SVG Filter Effects: Creating Texture with <feTurbulence>
19.2.2019
Learn how you can use the powerful SVG filter primitive <feTurbulence> to create your own textures and distortion effects.
SVG Filter Effects: Creating Texture with <feTurbulence> was written by Sara Soueidan and published on Codrops
instant.page
18.2.2019
instant.page is a pretty cool project from Alexandre Dieulot. Alexandre has been at this idea for half a decade now, as InstantClick is his and is essentially the same exact idea.
The idea is that there is a significant delay between hovering over a link and clicking that link. Say it takes...
IE10-Compatible Grid Auto-Placement with Flexbox
18.2.2019
If you work on web applications that support older browsers, and have lusted after CSS Grid from the sidelines like I have, I have some good news: I've discovered a clever CSS-only way to use grid auto-placement in IE10+!
Now, it's not actually CSS Grid, but without looking at the code itself,...
The Magic of React-Based Multi-Step Forms
15.2.2019
One way to deal with long, complex forms is to break them up into multiple steps. You know, answer one set of questions, move on to another, then maybe another, and so on and so forth. We often refer to these as multi-step forms (for obvious reasons), but others also take to calling it a “wizard”...
The #StateOfCSS 2019 Survey
15.2.2019
You know about the State of JavaScript survey, where thousands upon thousands of developers were surveyed about all-things-JS, from frameworks to testing and many other things in between? Well, Sacha Greif has launched one focused entirely on CSS.
This is super timely given a lot of the content...
A Crypto Derivatives Primer
15.2.2019
Learn about crypto derivatives, risk management and the solutions they offer. From the CMC editorial desk: With increasing interest in crypto derivatives and the function they serve in managing risk, what must you know about them? We asked LXDX, and […]
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Getting to Grips with the Airtable API
14.2.2019
The Airtable web app is pretty neat. You can use it like a spreadsheet but it’s useful for all sorts of other things too. The neatest thing about it for me is that it has an API so that you can treat it like a database.
I’ve been thinking about making weekly notes for the different teams I work...
The Smart Ways to Correct Mistakes in Git
14.2.2019
The world of software development offers an infinite amount of ways to mess up: deleting the wrong things, coding into dead ends, littering commit messages with typos, are a mere few of the plentitude.
Fortunately, however, we have a wonderful safety net under our feet in the form of Git when...
Avoiding those dang cannot read property of undefined errors
13.2.2019
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'foo' of undefined. The dreaded error we all hit at some point in JavaScript development. Could be an empty state from an API that returns differently than you expected. Could be something else. We don’t know because the error itself is so general...
Quick! What’s the Difference Between Flexbox and Grid?
12.2.2019
Let's go rapid fire and try to answer this question with quick points rather than long explanations. There are a lot of similarities between flexbox and grid, starting with the fact that they are used for layout and much more powerful than any layout technique that came before them. They...