By Ramya Raju Nowadays, when it seems like everyone has a smartphone or tablet, the importance of creating mobile friendly websites cannot be overstated. As a result, business owners have lapped up the idea of responsive web design because it can give a complete experience to users on different platforms - from desktop computers to [...]
Understanding the SVG viewBox and viewport
By Joni Trythall In using the <svg> element, we are establishing a fragment consisting of nested details in our document. This fragment has its own viewport and coordinate system which can seem very complex and intimidating when you are first getting started. Understanding the workspace of SVG is helpful in properly rendering your artwork, but [...]
Animating Inline SVG Icons
By Joni Trythall I recently did some experimenting with animating inline SVG icons. In this article I will quickly review my process and discuss the joys and frustrations I ran into. The demo discussed in the article is below and works on Chrome only for the moment. Scroll down to view all the icons and [...]
Organizing Your CSS Code for Preprocessors
By Tim Severien CSS preprocessors are probably one of the most useful things we have right now in front-end tooling. Whether you pick Sass, LESS or any other preprocessor, they’re great because they add so many features CSS never had. But I’m not trying to convince you use preprocessors, I assume you already do. Instead, [...]
Doing More with Sass’ @each Control Directive
By Scott O’Hara I recently wrote an article about the different Sass control directives and how even writing basic directives could be used to code leaner Sass. In this article, I’d like to take a closer look at the @each directive, Sass variable lists and maps. Combining these features can make for some powerful results [...]
Grids in CSS3
By Tim Severien In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the new features in CSS3 that make handling grids using HTML and CSS much easier. But first let’s discuss a little history of grids in HTML and CSS to get an understanding of what made them difficult. A Short History of Grids [...]
CSS for Beginners with Dreamweaver
By Brian Rinaldi Dreamweaver has had a long history. I recall using it heavily back in the UltraDev days, for those of you that remember that. While the tool has evolved quite a lot over the years, it remains a powerful web development IDE. Sure, everyone seems to love a lightweight code editor nowadays for [...]
8 Bootstrap Alternatives
By Alex Ivanovs You’ve probably heard a lot about Bootstrap. Put simply, it is a front-end framework that helps speed up and improve building functional websites.r. The original Bootstrap (also known as Twitter Bootstrap) was the project of two Twitter employees, Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton. Twitter Bootstrap is great, for developers. It allows us [...]
Learning SVG
By Joseph Wegner In my book, SVG is classified as a mythical unicorn super technology. SVG shares this category with other technologies like RegExp, vim, and OpenGL. The common traits between each of these technologies is that they are incredibly useful when used correctly, but incredibly difficult to use correctly. All three pack some serious [...]
CSS Regions Matter
By Sara Soueidan I wrote this article before the news came out that Google decided to pull Regions out of Blink, which, in my opinion, is a big loss for the web community. So, even though the content of the article may go in vain, I think it’s still worth sharing why I think CSS [...]
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