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So, You Wanna Submit a Proposal to Speak at an Event
22.4.2019
You’ve been scouring the web for upcoming events. You’ve subscribed to Developer Avocados and you’ve bookmarked conferences.css-tricks.com. And now you’ve found a call for proposals (CFP) that you can’t wait to enter. You quickly fill out the online form and your pinky races towards the Enter...
A Website is a Car and Not a Book
15.4.2019
I’ve been wondering for a good long while why it feels like web design and development isn’t respected as much as native app development= and why the front-end role in many organizations is seen as a nice-to-have rather than a vital part of the business. Why is it so hard to see that this gig...
Open FaceTime Call from Command Line
11.4.2019
Communication tools are always associated with UIs, and for good reason — if you want communication to be easy and intuitive, you need easy and intuitive interfaces. We need communication tools to provide the lowest barrier of entry, since not all users will be tech savvy. For tech experts...
Under-Engineered Toggles
10.4.2019
Toggles. Switches. Whatever you want to call them, they've been with us for some time and have been a dominant a staple for many form interfaces. They're even baked right into many CSS frameworks, including Bootstrap and Foundation.
It's easy to think of them in binary terms: on and off. Off...
Decaying Sites
4.4.2019
Websites have a tendency to decay all by themselves. Link rot, they call it. Unpaid domain name registrations. Companies that have gone out of business. Site owners that have lost interest. What's sadder than a 404? Landing on a holding page of a URL that used to exist, but now has fallen into...
Validating a Login Form With React
4.4.2019
For almost every form that you create, you will want some sort of validation. In React, working with and validating forms can be a bit verbose, so in this article we are going to use a package call
You probably don’t need input type=“number”
29.3.2019
Brad Frost wrote about a recent experience with a website that used <input type="number">:
Last week I got a call from my bank regarding a wire transfer I had just scheduled. The customer support guy had me repeat everything back to him because there seemed to be a problem with...
Three Questions to Ask of Every Bug You Encounter
19.11.2018
Bugs. Errors. Exceptions. Problems. Issues. Whatever you call them in the moment, bugs are deeply associated with failure. Specifically, our own failure to write perfect code. These “failures” can
One-Offs
2.7.2018
There is this sentiment that you don't design the homepage of a site first. For most sites, it's an anomaly. It's unlike any other page and not something to base the patterns you use for the rest of the site or help inform other pages.
You might call it a one-off.1
One-offs are OK! A world without...
Fitting Text to a Container
29.6.2018
There are a number of ways to go about putting some text in a container and having it size itself to fill that container. There are different technologies we can use and different considerations to think about. Let us count the ways.
Magic Number it with viewport units
If you set type with...
Building a RSS Viewer With Vue: Part 2
19.6.2018
Welcome to Part 2 of this mini-series on building a RSS viewer with Vue. In the last post, I walked through how I built my demo using Vue.js and Vuetify on the front end and Webtask on the back end. When I built that initial version, I knew it was exactly thatmdash;an "initial" version. I took some...
Příručka marketéra: Triky mistrů copywriterů, se kterými vylepšíte každý newsletter
17.4.2018
Čím to, že některý e-mail zákazníci bez váhání hodí do koše, zatímco jiný se jim vryje pod kůži a mají ho v hlavě i několik dní po přečtení? Důvodů je více, ale mezi nejdůležitější patří… copy e-mailu. V nedávném článku jsme rozebrali newslettery z pohledu struktury. Co uvést do odesílatele,… Číst...
Call of Duty: WWII – návrat do druhé světové války se vyplatil
20.11.2017
Válka se nikdy nemění. A to i v případě hodně očekáváného nového dílu Call of Duty, které už teď láme prodejní rekordy. Hráči tak mají znovu možnost nakopat zadek německým vojskům v období druhé světové války. A ten návrat se docela povedl
Half Price Destiny, Game of Thrones Last Call, Ghibli, More Deals
16.2.2015
Destiny's not a perfect game, but it can be really tough to put down. Plus, it was good enough to make Kotaku's 12-best lists for Xbox One and PS4. [Destiny, $30]Read more
Last Day To Pre-Order Call Of Duty, Plus BF4 Premium, Origins [Deals]
4.11.2013
Call of Duty: Ghosts releases tomorrow (can't believe it), which means today is your last chance to pre-order and save. Don't stall, we expect these pre-order discounts to vanish away quickly... like ghosts...Read more
Call Of Duty: World At War $35 On Amazon
29.12.2008
Those of you itching to spend some quality time early next year shooting other people in World War 2-era gear might want to hit up today's Amazon.com Gold Box deal, featuring COD: World At War.Read more