Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ve all been there. It’s 2:00 in the afternoon. You need to pick up your kids from school. But, when you look at a component in Tridion’s Experience Manager (XPM / Site Edit), it’s broken. WTF! You’re not a front-end … Continue reading
Category: CSS
WARNING!
Below you are about to see some CSS tips, tricks, hacks – some clever, some stupid. These are not guaranteed to work in every browser, nor do I care if they do. You’ll probably want to look at these in a webkit browser such as Chrome, Safari, Android, or Amazon Silk. I’ll apologize for how these look in Internet Explorer, if you apologize for using it to begin with.
Four things Tridion guys should know about Front-end in 2016
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe world of front-end development is changing at a lightning fast pace. It’s hard enough for a front-end developer to keep up. So, how should a Tridion architect or general back-end developer stay “in the know” about the world of … Continue reading
Responsive Websites are all about How You Measure (in your CSS)
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe original title was, “CSS’ Units of Measurement and their impact to the quality of responsive websites”, and then I thought, “I wouldn’t want to read that — there’s no way someone else would.” So I figured I’d try something … Continue reading
CSS tip: Use a proportional line-height to make everyone happier
Reading Time: 5 minutesHaving a propensity to be pedantic, today I finally reached a small breaking point with line-height. In the grand scheme of communicating design requirements, this is a tiny little thing. But, a good understanding of line-height can improve design, documentation, … Continue reading
The Difference Between a Fix and a Solution in CSS
Reading Time: 6 minutesWe all fix things, and we all solve things. But sometimes we don’t know whether we’re fixing a problem in CSS, or solving it. And I realize that even I’m guilty of not recognizing one over the other. This isn’t … Continue reading
Hacking Media Manager at an SDL Hackathon
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year, SDL decided to host a hackathon that launched at SDL Innovate. And I, having a full time job, school, and a side project, needed something to keep me busy. So I decided to participate. I had some ideas … Continue reading
Front-end Architecture Options in Tridion
Reading Time: 5 minutesI had a discussion recently about whether to put CSS into Tridion as multimedia components or code components, and it triggered a really fun discussion. We talked about all of our different strategies and use-cases for managing the CSS in … Continue reading
Two Front-end Tidbits for Tridion Guys
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I’ve mentioned previously, I recently left Tahzoo and started working at a new company called Content Bloom. Last week was Content Bloom’s global training summit, held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (if that’s a real place). Everyone at the … Continue reading
Stylus and BEM: A quick mixin
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo, my good buddy Wes has fallen in love with BEM, that glorious HTML/CSS methodology that adds reinforced steel to your front-end framework. And he discovered the other day that someone has written a SASS mixin for writing BEM. But…but…I’m … Continue reading
The Case for Re-Architecting Your CSS (with a CSS Preprocessor)
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn the last few months I’ve become a pretty big fan of a particular CSS preprocessor called Stylus. Stylus is a node.js-powered preprocessor that I’ve used with some clients. Stylus has offered a huge boost in both my productivity and … Continue reading