Your Body Text is Too Small

July 20, 2018design tips

Several years ago, there was a big push by designers to increase the font-size of websites and I feel like we’re living in another era of accessibility improvements where a fresh batch of designers are pushing for even larger text sizing today. Take this post by Christian Miller, for example, where he writes:

The majority of websites are still anywhere in the range of 15–18px. We’re starting to see some sites adopt larger body text at around 20px or even …

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How Post Relationships Make it Easier to Build Advanced Websites

July 19, 2018design tips
Post relationships are connections between different posts on a website. Using them means it is easier than ever to build advanced websites. That is because you can link different custom post types with each other, eliminating data duplication and ensuring you only need to edit each piece of information just once. Given how time is …
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The 4 Best Google Analytics Plugins For WordPress

July 19, 2018design tips
As a blogger, you probably employ several tactics to maximize the impact of each post. Without the proper measurement tools, however, it can be difficult to know which ones are most effective at engaging your audience. That’s why I’m a big fan of Google Analytics, Google’s free web analytics tool. The platform allows you to add tracking code …
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Weird things variable fonts can do

July 19, 2018design tips

I tend to think of variable fonts as a font format in which a single font file is capable of displaying type at near-infinite variations of things like boldness, width, and slantyness. In my experience, that’s a common use case. Just check out many of the interactive demos over at Axis-Praxis:

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Make sure to go play around at v-fonts.com as well for loads of variable font demonstrations.

But things like boldness, width, and slantyness and just a few…

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Building “Renderless” Vue Components

July 19, 2018design tips

There’s this popular analogy of Vue that goes like this: Vue is what you get when React and Angular come together and make a baby. I’ve always shared this feeling. With Vue’s small learning curve, it’s no wonder so many people love it. Since Vue tries to give the developer power over components and their implementation as much as it possibly can, this sentiment has led to today’s topic.

The term renderless components refers to components that don’t render anything. …

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30+ Feature-Packed Mockup and Scene Generators

July 19, 2018design tips
How to effectively showcase your work can always pose something of a dilemma. There are plenty of one-off mockups available for different purposes, but we’re starting to see the release of more and more incredible “scene creators” that let you create your own mockup scene. These provide unique sets of multiple items that let you […]
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