Monthly Archives: April 2018

(This is a sponsored post.)

Who said collecting data was easy? JotForm did. In today’s world, getting relevant data has never been more important for making informed business decisions. The thing is, companies still struggle with it because the forms they use for gathering information don’t typically resonate with their customers. Until now that is. With JotForm’s newest format, JotForm Cards, your online forms have all the same power of traditional forms, but with added benefits: they’re friendlier, sleeker, …

The post ​The future of data collection is here appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

An oldie but goodie, Chris Beams writes about the secret art of writing helpful Git commit messages. Here’s why he thinks it’s so important:

If you haven’t given much thought to what makes a great Git commit message, it may be the case that you haven’t spent much time using git log and related tools. There is a vicious cycle here: because the commit history is unstructured and inconsistent, one doesn’t spend much time using or taking care of it. …

The post How to Write a Git Commit Message appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

Have you seen Lynn Fisher’s extraordinary A Single Div project? Not only are all these graphics drawn in just HTML and CSS, they are all created with (you guessed it) a single <div>.

Why would she do that? Here’s one pertinent possibility: it’s none of our business. We’re free to wonder, or even ask if it’s done respectfully enough. But does it really matter? Let’s stop short of assuming she doesn’t know what’s she’s doing, assuming it’s a twisted form of pain, or that she’s unaware of other technologies. Check out the example where she drew the official SVG logo with CSS and a single div. Woke.

The post Why would you do that in CSS? appeared first on CSS-Tricks.