Tag: 2021 End-of-Year Thoughts
The first time I had my breath taken away by a humble scrollbar was on this very site. When CSS-Tricks v17 rolled out with its FAT CHONKY BOI, my jaw dropped.
I didn’t know you could do that on …
Strut Your Stuff With a Custom Scrollbar originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
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How much time do you spend designing the content presentation for your websites? When you write a new blog post or create a new page, are you thinking about just the words, or how your readers will engage with those …
Show, Don’t Tell originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
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Ensuring accessibility is a clear path to making your website better. When you make your site accessible, you grow your audience, improve the experience for all people using it (not just those with accessibility needs), and you get SEO benefits…
Personalize it! originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
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When Chris first sent me this prompt, I was thinking about writing about progressive enhancement, but that subject is so wide-reaching to be one thing and all too predictable, especially for those already familiar with my writing. Saying that, what …
Consistent, Fluidly Scaling Type and Spacing originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
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Earlier this week, I tried out a starter theme for a blog platform. The theme had loads of nice default features: pretty typography, fancy navigation, dark mode widget… and a couple of default trackers I really don’t want just sitting …
Remove Trackers originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
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When’s the last time you read your website? Like out loud in the lobby of a Starbucks on a weekday afternoon, over the phone to your parents, or perhaps even as a bedtime story for your kids.
No worries, this …
Read Your Website originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
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What’s the one thing people can do to make their website better? Now that is a good question. One with many right answers, like improving performance, taking care of accessibility, and upgrading user experience as prime examples. These are all …
Think Without Boxes originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
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So what is the one thing that people can do is to make their website better? To answer that, let’s take a step back in time …
The year is 1998, and the web is on the rise. In an …
Embrace the Platform originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
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There is a huge and ever-widening gap between the devices we use to make the web and the devices most people use to consume it. It’s also no secret that the average size of a website is huge, and …
Test Your Product on a Crappy Laptop originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
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As I write this, world leaders are gathering in Glasgow for COP26, the international climate change conference, in the attempt to halt (or at least slow down) catastrophic climate change by pledging to end their countries’ dependence on fossil fuels. …
Reduce Your Website’s Environmental Impact With a Carbon Budget originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the DigitalOcean family. You should get the newsletter.
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