Reading Time: 5 minutesSo, you’re a front-end developer. You’re trying to learn about Tridion and how it affects your life. Maybe you’ve met some Tridion architects you want to impress. Maybe you’ve aggravated them, but you’ve run out of whisky. Even after my … Continue reading
Category: Web
I’m a web developer and a consultant. Almost everything here is web related. Maybe I’m talking about a CMS, CSS, or UX or UI. Or maybe it’s about web browsers and HTML5.
Four Things a Front-end Developer Should Know about Schemas in Tridion
Reading Time: 5 minutesYou’re a front-end developer. You’re writing for a component template. You hand off HTML for a back-end developer to write a view. The back-end developer looks at it, goes cross-eyed and starts muttering to himself. You explain it. He says, … Continue reading
7 Things a Front-end Developer Should Know about Tridion
Reading Time: 8 minutesSo, you’re a front-end developer, eh? And you’ve been told that you’ll be writing code, and that it’ll be moved into a Content Management System. Called Tridion. And you can’t find out where to download it because there’s not a … 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
Front-end for the Middle: Coding and CMSing for Relationships
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is part three of a series called “Front-end for the Middle”. Honestly, I didn’t mean to write three posts. But when one post is over 2,000 words without being finished, it’s time to get slicing. Previously, we’ve talked about … Continue reading
Front-end for the Middle: Semantics and Schemas
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is a continuation of a previous post that I wrote, entitled Front-end for the Middle: Focus and Design. Previously, we established that it’s better for a front-end developer to be focused on content, rather than design. In this post, … Continue reading
Front-end for the Middle: Focus and Design
Reading Time: 3 minutesA few months back I had the opportunity to present at the Tridion Developer Summit in Amsterdam. Gino Toro, (former) product manager for Media Manager was going to be speaking on Media Manager, so I decided to try a different … Continue reading
What’s that Schema? A Basic Alchemy Plugin
Reading Time: 6 minutesEver looked at a component in Tridion and wondered, “what schema does that use?” I have. All the time. Opening up the component to find out what schema it uses is just too many clicks. Ain’t nobody got time for … Continue reading