By Brian Rinaldi The CSS Regions specification allows you to create multiple containers into which content can flow into and out of. This can be especially useful for creating complex, magazine-like layouts with irregularly shaped content layers. Recently an article came out that has led many people to feel negatively about the CSS Regions spec. […]
Static Analysis For CSS
By Toby Ho Static analysis involves analyzing, rather than executing, source code, a process that is typically automated. Recently, I’ve had fun writing about static analysis for Javascript. This time, we’ll do something that’s similar but different - static analysis for CSS. The CSS Module The library we’ll use to help perform the static analysis is simply called css and it […]
LESS vs Sass? It’s time to switch to Sass
By Zing Design The Sass versus LESS argument has been done to death. In this article I’ll explain why Sass really is the best and why you should start using Sass if you haven’t already. If you are interested, I’ve also written about how to get started using Sass and the problems with pre-processors. Before I begin […]
Six Reasons Why I Love Sass
By David Simpson My first use of Sass in a production environment came when I started working as a designer and developer on Product Marketing at HubSpot. I had read a lot about LESS and Sass and the concepts of CSS pre-processors, and even dabbled with how they worked, but didn’t fully understand how powerful […]
Enhancing the HTML abbr Element on Mobile
By Aurelio De Rosa Today’s world move fast - really fast. When writing, a lot of people use abbreviations and acronyms to save time. We can find these used all over the web. They are so frequently used that an HTML tag, <abbr>, was created to identify them and help improve the semantic markup of […]
5 Most Exciting Features of Foundation 5
By Zing Design We’ve eagerly awaited the release of the latest version of Foundation, Zurb’s hugely popular front-end framework. It has finally arrived and I’m sure a lot of designers and front-end developers are eager to put it to the test. We were lucky enough to have a sneak preview of the framework before it […]
CSS Alignment and Sizing Snippets
By Tim Severien CSS can be tricky sometimes, especially when aligning and setting sizes. This article contains a bunch of helpful snippets that I’ve gathered. They make my life easier, and hopefully yours as well. Note: beneath each snippet is a table indicating browser support. Alignment Horizontally and vertically Dynamically sized elements. .parent { position: […]
Using Bootstrap 3 as a Web Development Workflow Tool
By Zing Design With the release of Bootstrap 3 in mid-August, I was eager to take it out for a test drive. My expectations were pretty high for the latest iteration of the framework. The first thing that struck me when I was reading through the documentation were the many similarities to Foundation 4. At first […]
Building a Blog with Jekyll
By Donovan Hutchinson There are many services that provide you with a blog. However, they get to store and make use of your content. For those of us that prefer to run our own sites and keep the content under our own control, setting up our own is a better option. In this article I’ll […]
Break The Wrist And Walk Away: Responsive Design And Bootstrap 3
By Burke Holland This is me and design. I want to be a designer. I want to build beautiful sites. I don’t just want to code, I want to be an artist. A creative. I work for a UI company. Everything that I live and breathe is UI. The sad truth of the matter is […]