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Best Practices for Optimizing Images
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Gotchas in Naming CSS View Transitions
I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog. Nothing fancy. Mostly copying how Dave Rupert does it on his site where you get a…
The wrong way to do Web Components
There’s not really a “wrong” way to build Web Components. But there are some approaches that are, in my opinion, antithetical to the spirit of them, and maybe…
Five Basic Things About JavaScript That Will Help Non JavaScript-Focused Web Designers
Let’s say you don’t know JavaScript. Like, at all. You haven’t needed it. You’re a web designer and you’re focused largely on UI and UX. Your skills with design…
Anchor Positioning and the Popover API for a JS-Free Site Menu
Anchor positioning in CSS enables us to position an element relative to an anchor element anywhere on the page. Prior to this we could only position an element…
More ways to instantiate Web Components
Last week, we looked at different ways to setup the HTML in a Web Component. One of the challenges with running your code in the constructor() is that sometimes…
A quick and easy guide to Markdown
This guide is designed to help everyone with Markdown, even if they have never written it before. It is deliberately simple. There’s links to further resources…
Custom attributes in Web Components
One of my favorite ways to customize Web Components is with custom attributes. Since writing that last article, I’ve gotten some questions around using custom…
Default Apps 2024
There've been some folks sharing their 2024 default apps; let me join the fun! Heads up! Some of this post's links are affiliate links. If this rubs you the…
Slash Pages?
Sometimes I look at this list of “slash pages” and I’m like ughkgh I love these, I should do like all of them. Then something stops me and I think I’ve figured…