The JavaScript “Ah ha!” Moment
Mar
30
2012
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If you feel like you have a decent understanding of JavaScript, what was your “Ah ha!” moment? Or are you still waiting for it?
Bandwidth Media Queries
Mar
28
2012
They don’t exist. But wouldn’t that be nice? …
Upcoming Speaking
Mar
28
2012
Summer edition!…
Minimum Paragraph Widths in Fluid Layouts
Mar
26
2012
In fluid width environments, the text that wraps around floated elements can get awkwardly narrow and trap bits of text orphaned away from the rest of the paragraph. This article explains that problem in more details and offers a few solutions.
Content Folding
Mar
23
2012
In which we interdigitate content in a responsive layout rather than just “push it to the bottom.”
Latest Snippets
- Corner Ribbon
- Layered Paper
- Base64 Encode of 1x1px Transparent GIF
- Post Data to an iframe
- Append / Prepend Files
- Subdirectories URL Internally Redirect to Query String
- Lazy Loading Images
- Get Object Size
- Remove Specific Value from Array
- Paste Events
- Year Shortcode
- Turn on WordPress Error Reporting
- Detect Location by IP
- Send a Text Message
Latest Screencast
#110: Quick Overview of CSS Position Values
This is a quick beginner-level overview of the different CSS position values. In a nutshell: relative allows you to "nudge" and leaves the element's original position in the page flow. Absolute and fixed allow for exact placement of elements and remove them from the page flow. Fixed positioned elements are unaffected by scrolling. All of them set a new positioning context and allow z-index to work.
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ShopTalk Episode 12 →
This week Dave and I are joined by Dave's co-workers and amigo's Trent Walton and Reagan Ray. We talk about cutting edge front end stuff, client services, topics for a graduate thesis, and more. Brought to you by LessMoney and Front End Design Conference, two web conferences running back to back in Florida this July.
ShopTalk Episode 11 →
This week Dave and I were joined by Jina Bolton. We talked all kinds of shop, touching on SASS usage and the new upcoming website, semantics, learning, workflow, and more. This weeks show brought to you by LessMoney and Hover.
Off Canvas →
A super hot responsive web design pattern by Jason Weaver. Don't forget about the ol x-axis while designing for small screens. (via Paul Irish)