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Monthly Web Development Update 1/2019: Rethinking Habits And Finding Custom Solutions

Monthly Web Development Update 1/2019: Rethinking Habits And Finding Custom SolutionsMonthly Web Development Update 1/2019: Rethinking Habits And Finding Custom Solutions Anselm Hannemann 2019-01-18T12:40:24+01:002019-01-18T21:18:05+00:00What could be better than starting the new year with some new experiments? Today I figured it was time to rethink JavaScript tooling in one of my projects. And since we wrote […]

Grabbing Visual Attention With The Visual Cortex

Grabbing Visual Attention With The Visual CortexGrabbing Visual Attention With The Visual Cortex Susan Weinschenk 2019-01-17T13:15:03+01:002019-01-17T18:11:37+00:00(This is a sponsored post.) You are designing a landing page. The goal of the page is to get people to notice, and hopefully click on a button on the screen to subscribe to a monthly newsletter. “Make sure the […]

HTML5 Input Types: Where Are They Now?

HTML5 Input Types: Where Are They Now?HTML5 Input Types: Where Are They Now? Drew McLellan 2019-01-16T14:30:11+01:002019-01-16T17:23:29+00:00One of the stand-out headline features of HTML5 for many designers and developers was the addition of a number of new types of form input that could be used. For years, we’d been confined to using single-line text inputs (type=”text”) […]

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The PlanetHow Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet Jack Lenox 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:002019-01-15T12:45:35+00:00You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This electricity needs to be produced somewhere. In most countries, this means the burning of fossil fuels. This, in turn, […]

Web Standards: The What, The Why, And The How

Web Standards: The What, The Why, And The HowWeb Standards: The What, The Why, And The How Amy Dickens 2019-01-14T14:00:17+01:002019-01-14T20:05:30+00:00The World Wide Web is an interesting place. As the Internet has grown and become more common place, it has become a gigantic instrument of change in terms of the way in which we interact with […]

When And How To Use CSS Multi-Column Layout

When And How To Use CSS Multi-Column LayoutWhen And How To Use CSS Multi-Column Layout Rachel Andrew 2019-01-11T15:00:30+02:002019-01-11T15:32:41+00:00In all of the excitement about CSS Grid Layout and Flexbox, another layout method is often overlooked. In this article I’m going to take a look at Multi-column Layout — often referred to as multicol or sometimes “CSS […]

Designing A Font Based On Old Handwriting

Designing A Font Based On Old HandwritingDesigning A Font Based On Old Handwriting Carolyn Porter 2019-01-10T13:00:02+01:002019-01-10T22:17:18+00:00Designers create handwriting-based connected cursive fonts for a variety of reasons: to immortalize the loops and swirls of a loved one’s handwriting, to digitize the penmanship of a person or document of historic significance, or to transform charming handwriting into […]

Powerful Image Analysis With Google Cloud Vision And Python

Powerful Image Analysis With Google Cloud Vision And PythonPowerful Image Analysis With Google Cloud Vision And Python Bartosz Biskupski 2019-01-09T13:45:32+01:002019-01-09T17:16:57+00:00Quite recently, I’ve built a web app to manage user’s personal expenses. Its main features are to scan shopping receipts and extract data for further processing. Google Vision API turned out to be a great tool […]

How To Design Search For Your Mobile App

How To Design Search For Your Mobile AppHow To Design Search For Your Mobile App Suzanne Scacca 2019-01-08T14:00:40+01:002019-01-08T20:29:47+00:00Why is Google the search behemoth it is today? Part of the reason is because of how it’s transformed our ability to search for answers. Think about something as simple as looking up the definition of a word. […]

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word] Vitaly Friedman 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:002019-01-07T16:09:11+00:00Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are? Is it expensive JavaScript, slow web font delivery, heavy […]

HTML5 SVG Fill Animation With CSS3 And Vanilla JavaScript

HTML5 SVG Fill Animation With CSS3 And Vanilla JavaScriptHTML5 SVG Fill Animation With CSS3 And Vanilla JavaScript Marina Ferreira 2019-01-04T13:00:19+01:002019-01-04T18:08:02+00:00SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics and it is a standard XML-based markup language for vector graphics. It allows you to draw paths, curves, and shapes by determining a set of points in the 2D plane. […]

How Much Should You Get Paid To Build Websites In 2019?

How Much Should You Get Paid To Build Websites In 2019?How Much Should You Get Paid To Build Websites In 2019? Suzanne Scacca 2019-01-03T13:50:00+01:002019-01-03T20:20:24+00:00(This is a sponsored post.) When a business owner is in need of a new website, one of the first answers they’re going to go in search of is: “How much should […]

How To Learn CSS

How To Learn CSSHow To Learn CSS Rachel Andrew 2019-01-02T14:00:30+02:002019-01-02T15:42:52+00:00I get a lot of people asking me to recommend to them tutorials on various parts of CSS, or asking how to learn CSS. I also see a lot of people who are confused about bits of CSS, in part because of outdated ideas about the […]

2018: A Smashing Year In Review

2018: A Smashing Year In Review2018: A Smashing Year In Review Rachel Andrew 2018-12-31T14:00:30+01:002018-12-31T14:59:50+00:00As we come to the end of 2018, I spoke to some of the Smashing team, to get some thoughts on what the past year has been like for Smashing Magazine. We’re a small and fully remote team, communicating via Slack and […]

New Year, New Beginnings (January 2019 Wallpapers Edition)

New Year, New Beginnings (January 2019 Wallpapers Edition)New Year, New Beginnings (January 2019 Wallpapers Edition) Cosima Mielke 2018-12-31T13:30:00+01:002018-12-31T14:59:50+00:00Maybe you’ve already started into the new year when you read this, maybe you’re still waiting for the big countdown to begin. No matter what: Let’s welcome 2019 with a fresh wallpaper! To give you a little inspiration […]

Will PWAs Replace Native Mobile Apps?

Will PWAs Replace Native Mobile Apps?Will PWAs Replace Native Mobile Apps? Suzanne Scacca 2018-12-28T12:30:52+01:002018-12-28T20:58:26+00:00A developer friend of mine has decided to build a progressive web app for his new company. When I asked why he opted for a PWA instead of a native app, he said: “Because the PWA is the future of the web.” […]

Common CSS Issues For Front-End Projects

Common CSS Issues For Front-End ProjectsCommon CSS Issues For Front-End Projects Ahmad Shadeed 2018-12-27T13:30:11+01:002018-12-27T20:12:45+00:00When implementing a user interface in a browser, it’s good to minimize those differences and issues wherever you can, so that the UI is predictable. Keeping track of all of those differences is hard, so I’ve put together a list of common […]

What We Wished For

What We Wished ForWhat We Wished For Mat Marquis 2018-12-24T14:30:46+01:002018-12-24T16:59:07+00:00I think we’re headed for trouble, though I can’t say for sure. Trouble — trouble I know. The on-ramp to it, though; I’ve only heard about that. I’ve only been doing this for ten years. I missed all the lead-up the last time around. What I […]

Generic First CSS: New Thinking On Mobile First

Generic First CSS: New Thinking On Mobile FirstGeneric First CSS: New Thinking On Mobile First Alastair Hodgson 2018-12-21T14:45:16+01:002018-12-21T16:34:19+00:00I think it’s safe to say that Ethan Marcotte’s Responsive Web Design was a welcome revelation for web developers the world over. It triggered a whole new wave of design thinking and wonderful new front-end techniques. The reign […]

Writing A Multiplayer Text Adventure Engine In Node.js

Writing A Multiplayer Text Adventure Engine In Node.jsWriting A Multiplayer Text Adventure Engine In Node.js Fernando Doglio 2018-12-20T14:05:34+01:002018-12-20T14:16:59+00:00Text adventures were one of the first forms of digital role-playing games out there, back when games had no graphics and all you had was your own imagination and the description you read on the black screen of […]

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