Help yourself be better at accessibility by using better hiding techniques that don’t use display: none;. This involves some tricks like using more clever class names, being fancier with how you deal with JavaScript library animations, or avoiding hiding all together.
This tutorial, a guest post by young developer Allen Lawson, will show you how to create a notebook themed website using only CSS.
I know it’s weird to go through slides of a presentation outside of the context of a real talk (and pales in comparison to the experience of being there) but nonetheless, there may be bits of goodness you can extract from them.…
What CSS properties might it make sense to apply to every single element on the page? We’ll take a look at some that may (or may not) be a good idea.
Quick overview of the hot drama regarding vendor prefixes.
In this screencast I move my own personal website from my old live FTP editing ways to a proper version controlled system including deployment. I haven't had much experience with this, so forgive me if it's a bit rough.
We start by moving the live website local, including bringing all the files down and copying the database. Then we set up a Git repository in Beanstalk and push it all up to that. Then we give Beanstalk our FTP credentials and set up how we want deployment done. Then we make some local changes to our site, and commit/push them to Beanstalk, which does the deployment for us. By then end, it's all working perfectly.
If you've got questions/comments/suggestions on this workflow, I'd love to hear!
Links from the video:
Followup:
Mark Jaquith on Working with WordPress Locally (specifically, dealing with plugins and config).
Brad Frost shows examples and covers the various techniques/pros/cons for handling navigation on small screens.
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Sarah Parmenter with some good honest thoughts about the popular idea of designing in the browser.
I’ve tried, goodness knows I’ve tried, but my designs end up suffering, looking boxy, bland and uninspiring.
Not that I'm that great of a designer but I feel the same way. I have to start in Photoshop to get anything decent looking. I try to get out it as soon as possible, but once I'm into the HTML/CSS my brain is in a more analytical and less creative mode.
