New Features and a New Look for SassDoc
A couple of weeks ago, I introduced SassDoc at SitePoint while it was still in an early development phase. Since then, we have released no less than one major and two minor versions, respectively:...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Fewer Nodes = Lighter SVG
Recently I found myself playing about on the snap.svg site (take a look if you haven't used it yourself yet). It has a really nice SVG polygon background on the header, which weighs in at a meagre...
View ArticleIntroducing Avocode — PSD to Code Without Photoshop
Photoshop has been a part of web design for years, and it’s very likely to continue as such for a long time. If you design for the web using Photoshop, or you’re a developer who handles coding up PSDs,...
View ArticleExplaining the “Details” and “Summary” Elements
Lots of JavaScript libraries are developed to give us additional interactive widgets on websites. Equally, HTML5 has also interpreted a number of popular interactive components, making them into native...
View ArticleBuilding a Logger Mixin in Sass
In this tutorial we'll build a "logger" mixin, which outputs a flexible, informative log as CSS when Sass is compiled.Logging is the process of recording application actions and state to a secondary...
View ArticleNew Course: Building Your Own Pattern Library for the Web
What You'll LearnHave you ever heard about patterns in web design? In our latest course on Building Your Own Pattern Library, expert instructor Adi Purdila will teach you what they are, how to build...
View Article7 Ways You Might Not Know Your Sites Are Exploding
Once upon a time in web design, all you had to do to make your sites cross compatible was set them to be 960px wide and fix the issues that popped up in IE6. Ah, the old days....Today, the internet is...
View ArticleCSS Experiments With a Search Form Input and Button
In this tutorial, I’d like to explore how you can embellish a simple search form. We won’t be doing anything crazy, instead exploring four different takes on how you can spruce up a search input with...
View Article3 High-level Approaches to Prototyping by Example
In my last post, I discussed high-level factors one should consider when determining the most effective type of prototype for a given product. This is done through an analysis of their organization,...
View ArticleThe Holy Grail of CSS Centering
Chris Coyier recently published a decision tree on his site, CSS Tricks, to demonstrate a plethora of ways to horizontally or vertically center things using CSS. As standalone solutions they all have...
View ArticleGet Started Building Your Blog with Parse.js
What You'll Be CreatingHave you ever gotten excited by the idea of a web project, but found it miserable to make it run and work on a server? With Parse.js, everyone who understand the basics of HTML,...
View ArticleLifelong Education is for Everyone
No matter who you are, today is the day to learn something new.Have you found yourself spinning your wheels with a sense of frustration or lack of passion for what you are doing? If you're reading...
View ArticleHow to Use Web Fonts With Adobe Muse
In this tutorial I will show you how to use web fonts in your Adobe Muse projects. We'll cover font options offered within the web font catalogue, including Google Web Fonts and fonts hosted...
View Article3 Ways to Get Feedback From Clients With InVision
Getting feedback from clients is a crucial part of any project. It doesn't matter if you're a team of one or a team of developers and designers, you need feedback from your client to keep the project...
View ArticleCreating a Collection of CSS3 Animated Pre-loaders
Pre-loaders are a common sight in modern web design. As users we expect the web to be fast and fluid - we don’t like waiting for things. Pre-loaders offer visual feedback in the event of content being...
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View Article�New Course: Bombproof Web Design
What You’ll LearnAre your websites bombproof? Today’s Internet is a minefield of technology mixing and matching, where a single website can be viewed in hundreds of different ways. If you’re not...
View ArticleA Quick Introduction to BrowserSync
In this quick video tutorial I'm going to introduce you to BrowserSync, a tool so good Google built it into their recent Web Starter Kit. You can think of BrowserSync as being a bit like LiveReload (it...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Don’t Let Your Designs “Evolve”
A Web Designer’s work is never done, even once a website is launched the job of testing, analysing and reiterating is only just beginning. But iterating is not the same as letting a design evolve. If...
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