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November 30th, the official "Blue Beanie Day," has come and gone. I'm not sure I ever grokked the exact spirit of it, but I've written about what it means to me. Last year: […]

I think Adam's first prediction is his boldest, even beyond his Hail Mary prediction. CSS grid is awesome and gap is perhaps one of its best qualities, but gap superseding […]

Interesting idea for a "chat room" from Postlight: Create a Yap chat room. Invite others to join and talk. Share a URL of just about anything. Everyone gathering can comment […]

Most of the time you don’t really care about whether a user is actively engaged or temporarily inactive on your application. Inactive, meaning, perhaps they got up to […]

A standard copy-and-paste YouTube embed lands on your page as an <iframe> which loads a big ol' pile of other stuff to play that video. But the UX of it is still […]

WordPress 5.3.1 was released on 12 December and comes with plenty of bug fixes, enhancements, and security fixes. Version 5.3.1 is mainly focused on security and maintenance […]

On Dec 10, we posted a Tweet for our list of the top WordPress Influencers in the industry.  Here’s the tweet in all its glory:  These 40+ WordPress […]

Tuesday, December 3, was the official release date for Inclusive Components, and the reception has been overwhelmingly positive. The book is already an essential resource for […]

In this week's news: Firefox gets strict, Opera goes to the dark side, and Chrome plans to let web apps run in the background. Let's get into the news. Firefox for Android […]

Did you know there is a well-supported browser API that allows you to interface with interesting and even custom-built hardware using a mature protocol that predates the web? […]

Gutenberg 7.1 was released on 11 December and merged 160 pull requests with plenty of bugs fixes, various new APIs, and experiments. Version 7.1 is mainly focused on the […]

This is going to seem like an odd thing to suggest, considering how much work is required to build a progressive web app instead of a responsive website. But, for many of […]

We’re sliding into the roaring twenties of the twenty-first century (cue Jazz music 🎷). It’s important that you and I, as responsible people, follow the […]

I don't see image sprites used that much anymore, but it's still a good technique for reducing downloaded decorative image assets when you have multiple on a page. The big […]

Seemingly out of the blue, the Gulp processing I had set up for this site started to have a race condition. I'd run my watch command, change some CSS, and the processing […]

In the run-up to Christmas, there is a tradition across the web design and development community to produce advent calendars, typically with a new article or resource for […]

We’re opening up our Smashing TV webinars to everyone, and today you’re welcome to follow along as Rachel Andrew builds a layout using CSS Grid and Flexbox. In […]

(This is a sponsored article.) When a traffic spike hits, you want your website to be able to ride the wave instead of drown beneath it. But how do you do that without […]

In the flood of online content, companies live or die by their brand image. A brand image has to express the company’s message and connect with users, who should […]

A sales funnel is a set of invisible steps you lay before visitors that takes them from the point of entry to the desired action. There are three stages in a sales funnel: […]