reset.css vs. normalize.css
Browsers are programmed to apply default values to elements on a web page whether or not any CSS is written. This helps render viewable HTML without any added styles. The only problem is, different...
View ArticleWeb Tutorials
You can learn just about anything about Web development online for free. For learning basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript, start at Codecademy. For me it was time well spent. Other helpful general knowledge...
View Article@fat breaks down CSS on Medium
If you’re into nerd shit, I wrote a thing about how Medium’s CSS is actually pretty chill. https://t.co/TiGRrKG7Tq — jacob (@fat) August 28, 2014 Medium is all kinds of awesome. Today’s read: @fat‘s...
View ArticleFonts and Typefaces
A font is what you use, a typeface is what you see. These days everything seems to trip me up. My thoughts just dart from one place to the next. What’s the difference between a font and a typeface?...
View ArticleLESS and SASS
SASS and LESS are CSS pre-processors. What is a CSS pre-processor? A pre-processor is a program that processes its input data to produce output that is used as input to another program. A CSS...
View ArticleSupporting ie
An important staring point for any project is deciding what browsers you need to support. If your client or boss insists against your best advice to support ie version 9 and below, you most likely...
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Best Practices
be one with your CSS grid NOTE TO SELF: The sooner you develop good habits, the sooner you will find your center as a developer. Put another way: if you don’t develop good habits, you won’t develop...
View ArticleMolly Elizabeth at Udemy
Last week Molly Elizabeth of Udemy contacted me to ask if I would look over a new, free HTML5 guide recently posted on the Udemy blog by Mark Lassoff. I’ve been mighty busy with my two sons, Aiden, 2.5...
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Why I love Trello
Recommending tools to people is a risky business. What if they hate it? What if they hate me for ruining their previous workflow? What if they don’t want efficiency, they want familiarity and...
View ArticleWeb Design for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Accessibility. Everyone claims to care about it and understand it on both sides of the interview table, but when it comes to job time, very often no one mentions it again. This wasn’t true of all my...
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