By Alex Grande Think of this article as a general guideline for designing any website. I’ve learned these lessons through photography, working in the Enlightenment Linux window manager many years ago, and developing for a design agency. I apply these rules while designing and building Recognize, a social employee appreciation platform. Being able to do […]
Creating Image Galleries with Clipped Images Using CSS Pointer Events and SVG
By Zoltan Hawryluk If you click on the TV in the image below, you will see that it contains an image gallery created using the jQuery Cycle Plugin. You may ask, “I’ve used this awesome plugin before, so what’s the big deal?” Although this looks deceptively simple, the big deal about this is that the […]
5 Things You Should Stop Doing With jQuery
By Burke Holland When I first started using jQuery, I was so excited. I was using vanilla JS and really struggling with understanding when elements on a page were ready and how I could access them. When I learned about jQuery, I think I did what many people do. With tears of joy running down […]
Quick and Easy Local and Device Web App Testing
By Brian Rinaldi Years ago when I started in web development and for many years thereafter, local testing was a pain. Early on, working in Windows, I would use the local IIS server. This was easy to set up but you could only ever have one site (unless you were running a Windows server edition […]
Task Automation with Automaton and Node
Arguably few jobs require more repetitive tasks than programming. Undoubtedly, few people hate redundant tasks more than programmers. A programmer typically would be willing to spend as much or even potentially more time automating a redundant task than actually doing it. Thankfully, this can lead to a number of useful tools for automation. Popular ones […]
Zelda: A Link to the CSS
By Donovan Hutchinson This week, Nintendo announced a new release of the popular Zelda franchise coming soon for the Nintendo 3DS that will be set in the world of A Link to the Past. As many of you may recall, the original Zelda: A Link to the Past game that was released in the early […]
Automating CSSCSS using Grunt
By Peter Keating Recently a really useful tool Zach Moazeni named CSSCSS received a great deal of attention. CSSCSS is a Ruby gem that parse CSS files and will detect selectors with duplicated rules. This tool is great for helping you reduce the size and complexity of stylesheets by removing duplication. This can help in […]
Building a Google Maps Application with Updating Markers
by Raymond Camden I’ve been a fan of the Google Map API for some time now. If you dig beyond the basic “Show a map of X” and really examine the API, it is incredibly powerful. Recently, someone asked me an interesting question about Google Maps. Is it possible to use Google Maps to track […]
Creating Windows-8-like 3D animations with CSS3 and jQuery
by Sara Soueidan I’ve been using Windows 8 for a while now (and loving it), and one of the first things that struck me as impressive about it were the transitions and animations built into the dashboard (which uses the Metro design principles). I thought it would be a really fun experiment to try to […]
How to create an advanced HTML5 placeholder polyfill
By Aurelio De Rosa Some new HTML5 features are bigger than others but even some of the small one can be incredibly important and useful. One of these shiny features is an attributes called placeholder which allows you to specify placeholder text inside form’s elements like <input> and <textarea>. Unfortunately, older browsers don’t support the […]