Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis goes into my category of stupid CSS3 tricks. I think at some point I was playing with animations and timing, and I thought that the coolest and most useless CSS3 thing I could come up with is a pendulum. … Continue reading
Category: Front-end
Front-end Development: the fun stuff that happens in the browser with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Happy Valentine’s Day with a CSS3 heart
Reading Time: 2 minutesShow a geek you love her with a heart made lovingly with CSS
HTML5 and Geolocation: Finding Yourself (Part One of Many)
Reading Time: 4 minutesIf there’s something in the HTML5 technology suite whose potential is inversely proportionate to its simplicity, it’s geolocation. The API is very simple and the opportunities haven’t begun to get tapped. My boss over at Tahzoo has a few mind-blowing … Continue reading
CSS Tip: An em isn’t an “m”, but an ex is an “x”
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m in a CSS mailing list and this morning, Vince over at Ghodmode Development shared a fun little experiment showing that an em isn’t an “m” in CSS. I, along with others, more or less responded with “d’uh”. We’ve seen … Continue reading
HTML5 contenteditable and CSS
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy absolute favorite HTML5 attribute is “contenteditable”. It makes the contents of the element editable. It’s an incredibly simple feature that has tons of potential for your website.In fact, I’ve already seen it paired with localStorage or Web SQL APIs … Continue reading
A CSS Form Feedback Boilerplate
Reading Time: 2 minutesSo in a follow-up to my post on layering the feedback with CSS, I’ve created a simple starting point with styling our forms: a form feedback boiler plate.
Layering the feedback with CSS
Reading Time: 4 minutesFeedback Matters Long gone are the days where all we did was stare at a website and absorb content. We fill out contact forms, buy stuff, hold chat sessions, Tweet this and unlike that. These website interactions become more complex … Continue reading
Using HTML5’s Localstorage API for protecting forms
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of my new favorite features of HTML5 is the wicked awesome storage options. One of the first cool things I thought was to come up with a way to protect a user’s form information. Let’s pretend you been filling … Continue reading
HTML5 meter and range
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve really been interested recently in figuring out how to use HTML5 to create graphs and visualized data. I haven’t quite figured it out, but in the course of things, I stumbled upon the meter element and the range input. … Continue reading
Four Things My Mother Taught Me About Programming
Reading Time: 3 minutesBelieve it or not, the first person to teach me how to write a program was my mother. Our first computer was a Commodore 64 – and she was a pro at that thing. She has a bachelor’s in English and a Master’s in Reading; not who you’d expect to master BASIC in the early 80’s. In the days before the internet, she did some old-fashioned research, tracked down some books, and experimented a lot with programming until she was ready to teach it in a classroom a few years later. She wrote math programs for me, and she even taught me how to program by giving me the same rules she shared with her classroom, which I’ll share with you.