It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like… December (2018 Wallpapers Edition)It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like… December (2018 Wallpapers Edition) Cosima Mielke 2018-11-30T09:01:00+01:002018-11-30T18:28:01+00:00What are you looking forward to in December? Spending time with family and friends during the holidays, watching the birds gather in your snowy backyard, or celebrating “Bathtub Party Day” maybe? These […]
READ MOREStrategies For Headless Projects With Structured Content Management SystemsStrategies For Headless Projects With Structured Content Management Systems Knut Melvær 2018-11-29T13:35:41+01:002018-11-29T20:06:35+00:00This is the guide I wish I had the last couple of years when running projects with headless Content Management Systems (CMSs). I’ve been a developer, a user-experience and technology consultant, a project manager, information architect, […]
READ MOREA Complete Guide To Routing In AngularA Complete Guide To Routing In Angular Ahmed Bouchefra 2018-11-28T15:00:49+01:002018-11-28T17:21:25+00:00In case you’re still not quite familiar with Angular 7, I’d like to bring you closer to everything this impressive front-end framework has to offer. I’ll walk you through an Angular demo app that shows different concepts related to the […]
READ MOREAn Extensive Guide To Progressive Web ApplicationsAn Extensive Guide To Progressive Web Applications Ankita Masand 2018-11-27T14:00:29+01:002018-11-27T14:10:54+00:00It was my dad’s birthday, and I wanted to order a chocolate cake and a shirt for him. I headed over to Google to search for chocolate cakes and clicked on the first link in the search results. There was […]
READ MOREAvoiding The Pitfalls Of Automatically Inlined CodeAvoiding The Pitfalls Of Automatically Inlined Code Leonardo Losoviz 2018-11-26T14:00:08+01:002018-11-26T18:45:55+00:00Inlining is the process of including the contents of files directly in the HTML document: CSS files can be inlined inside a style element, and JavaScript files can be inlined inside a script element: /* CSS contents here */ /* […]
READ MOREMonthly Web Development Update 11/2018: Just-In-Time Design And Variable Font FallbacksMonthly Web Development Update 11/2018: Just-In-Time Design And Variable Font Fallbacks Anselm Hannemann 2018-11-23T14:00:24+01:002018-11-23T17:23:27+00:00How much does design affect the perception of our products and the users who interact with them? To me, it’s getting clearer that design makes all the difference and that unifying designs […]
READ MOREHappy First Anniversary, Smashing Members!Happy First Anniversary, Smashing Members! The Smashing Editorial 2018-11-21T14:00:59+01:002018-11-21T23:15:57+00:00Doesn’t time fly? And don’t ships sail? A year ago, we launched our Smashing Membership programme so that members of the Smashing readership could support us for a small amount of money (most people pay $5 or $9 a month, and can cancel […]
READ MOREImplications Of Thinking In Blocks Instead Of BlobsImplications Of Thinking In Blocks Instead Of Blobs Leonardo Losoviz 2018-11-20T13:00:59+01:002018-11-20T22:45:47+00:00Gutenberg is a JavaScript-based editor (more specifically, it is a React-based editor), which will soon transform the experience of creating content for WordPress and (on an upcoming stage when Gutenberg is transformed into a site builder) the experience […]
READ MOREBuilding An Interactive Infographic With Vue.jsBuilding An Interactive Infographic With Vue.js Krutie Patel 2018-11-19T13:00:30+01:002018-11-19T16:34:47+00:00This article presents a modern approach to building an interactive infographic. You sure can have plain infographic with all the information available upfront — without any user interaction. But, thinking of building an interactive experience — changes the technology landscape we choose. […]
READ MOREInclusive Design For Accessible PresentationsInclusive Design For Accessible Presentations Allison Ravenhall 2018-11-15T13:45:14+01:002018-11-16T00:44:22+00:00To all the presenters of conferences, workshops, and meetups: I truly enjoy hearing your anecdotes and learning things from you. I like laughing at your jokes, especially the puns. Unfortunately, some people in your audience aren’t getting as much out of your session as […]
READ MOREUse Case For Augmented Reality In DesignUse Case For Augmented Reality In Design Suzanne Scacca 2018-11-14T14:00:49+01:002018-11-14T13:45:20+00:00Augmented reality has been on marketers’ minds for years now — and there’s a good reason for it. Augmented reality (or AR) is a technology that layers computer-generated images on top of the real world. With the pervasiveness of the […]
READ MORESending Emails Asynchronously Through AWS SESSending Emails Asynchronously Through AWS SES Leonardo Losoviz 2018-11-13T14:30:53+01:002018-11-13T14:40:42+00:00Most applications send emails to communicate with their users. Transactional emails are those triggered by the user’s interaction with the application, such as when welcoming a new user after registering in the site, giving the user a link to reset the password, […]
READ MOREUsing Visual Composer Website Builder To Create WordPress WebsitesUsing Visual Composer Website Builder To Create WordPress Websites Nick Babich 2018-11-12T12:55:03+01:002018-11-12T16:40:43+00:00(This is a sponsored article.) WordPress has changed the way we make websites and millions of people use it to create websites today. But this tool has a few significant limitations — it requires time and […]
READ MORECSS Frameworks Or CSS Grid: What Should I Use For My Project?CSS Frameworks Or CSS Grid: What Should I Use For My Project? Rachel Andrew 2018-11-09T12:30:30+02:002018-11-09T17:55:33+00:00Among the questions I am most frequently asked is some variety of the question, “Should I use CSS Grid or Bootstrap?” In this article, I will take a look at […]
READ MORESharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3 Leonardo Losoviz 2018-11-08T12:30:30+01:002018-11-08T14:22:17+00:00When providing some functionality for processing a file uploaded by the user, the file must be available to the process throughout the execution. A simple upload and save operation presents no issues. However, if in addition the file […]
READ MOREHow To Build A Virtual Reality Model With A Real-Time Cross-Device PreviewHow To Build A Virtual Reality Model With A Real-Time Cross-Device Preview Alvin Wan 2018-11-06T23:50:16+01:002018-11-07T20:34:00+00:00Virtual reality (VR) is an experience based in a computer-generated environment; a number of different VR products make headlines and its applications range far and wide: for the winter Olympics, […]
READ MOREThe Value Of Storyboarding For Product DesignThe Value Of Storyboarding For Product Design Joshua Bumcrot 2018-11-06T14:15:20+01:002018-11-06T23:07:09+00:00When you think of the word “storyboarding,” you probably think about film, media, and video creation. Historically, this is what storyboards have been used for, but who says we can’t use them for product development as well? Storyboards are an […]
READ MOREImprove Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 videoImprove Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 video Ayo Isaiah 2018-11-05T14:30:14+01:002018-11-05T21:23:43+00:00Animated GIFs have a lot going for them; they’re easy to make and work well enough in literally all browsers. But the GIF format was not originally intended for animation. The original design of the GIF format was to provide […]
READ MORESmashingConf New York 2018: That’s What It Was LikeSmashingConf New York 2018: That’s What It Was Like Bruce Lawson 2018-11-02T14:00:00+02:002018-11-02T11:37:08+00:00As you may know, Smashing Magazine runs a conference — four a year, in fact. Last week saw me, Vitaly, Amanda and Mariona from the Smashing Team in New York, joined by our friend from Beyond […]
READ MOREThe 101 Course on Crafting 404 PagesThe 101 Course on Crafting 404 Pages Shelby Rogers 2018-11-01T09:48:57+00:002018-11-01T15:49:06+00:00Why Your 404 Pages Might Be The Unexpected Hero Of Your Content Marketing Strategy A lot of people toss around the phrase, “It’s not about the destination. It’s about the journey.” And those people are telling the truth — until […]
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