Reading Time: 5 minutesWorking in Content Management System (CMS) implementations has its challenges. While some of those challenges are in the application itself, many can be with the content authors. Content authors expect a certain amount of flexibility in how they can add … Continue reading
Category: Front-end
Front-end Development: the fun stuff that happens in the browser with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
CSS3: Structural Pseudo-Class Patterns
Reading Time: 4 minutesCSS3 offers a ton of brand new ways that you can select elements in ways we’ve never thought of before. Today I want to focus on exclusively the structural pseudo-classes, which are ways of selecting elements based on the document … Continue reading
JavaScript Keystroke Code Interpreter
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere’s a few different web apps I’ve developed where I needed to use keyboard characters for shortcut keys or whatnot. I can never remember what the keystroke codes are, and I hate looking at great big charts. So I made … Continue reading
Clever CSS3 Tricks: Using the em in text-shadow and box-shadow
Reading Time: 3 minutesAny of my web development buddies have learned that I’m a huge fan of the em. Huge fan. We’d be Facebook friends, we’d go on vacation together, yadda yadda yadda. When you look at my online resume you’ll be hard-up … Continue reading
CSS Sorcery: Performing Magic with the Attribute Selector
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast week I was tackling a CSS problem when I suddenly stumbled into the magical world of the attribute selector. It’s not that I didn’t know about it, it’s that I didn’t know how powerful it was. And I wasn’t … Continue reading
Learning the CSS Selectors: from N00b to Ninja
Reading Time: 4 minutesAuthoring HTML and CSS will never be as complex as programming. HTML is, after all, a markup language, and CSS is merely a stylesheet language. CSS is simple enough that the first two or three hours of writing it won’t … Continue reading
Clever CSS Tricks: using :target to create accordions
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn an interview with Jacob Gube from Six Revisions on the subject of exciting developments in CSS3, Eric Meyer said …the power to describe Web 2.0 designs in CSS is insignificant compared with the power to select every third table … Continue reading
Using HTML5 LocalStorage to Protect Forms: Part 2, the jQuery plugin
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver four months ago, I posted on how to use the HTML5 localstorage API to protect forms. Quite curiously, it was five days before someone else wrote an article on the concept on Smashing Magazine. (I won’t link to it … Continue reading
Snippets: Class Friendly CSS Triangles
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUntil I get my snippet library up and running in WordPress, I’m storing a lot of my snippets over at GitHub. One of the first things I put up there is a super handy snippet for easy-bake CSS triangles
Stupid CSS3 Tricks: Keeping time without JavaScript
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnother stupid CSS3 trick: Take a bucket-full of CSS3 -webkit animations, add in a table or two that you’ve marked up somewhat semantically, hit refresh and voilá, you have a way to keep track of how much time has passed … Continue reading