Benefits of Installing an SSL Certificate on Your Website

Given the fact that many websites are facing the wrath of hackers compromising on personal and financial information of your visitors, it is time to take stringent web security measures. And what better way to provide a strong security cover to your website than by installing an SSL certificate? SSL certificates are mandatory, multipurpose instruments …
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Portfolio Design Trends in 2018

When was the last time you updated your design portfolio? (If you’re like me, it’s probably been a while.) Maintaining a fresh portfolio is a good way to show off your skills to potential clients and can be helpful when looking back on work for annual contest entries. If you’ve fallen behind with your portfolio […]
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A Minimal JavaScript Setup

Some people prefer to write JavaScript with React. For others, it’s Vue or jQuery. For others still, it is their own set of tools or a completely blank document. Some setups are minimal, some allow you to get things done quickly, and some are crazy powerful, allowing you to build complex and maintainable applications. Every setup has advantages and disadvantages, but positives usually outweigh negatives when it comes to popular frameworks verified and vetted by an active community.

React and …

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The “Developer Experience” Bait-and-Switch

Alex Russell describes his thoughts on the current state of JavaScript and how we might sometimes put a ton of focus on the ease-of-use of development at the expense of user experience. So, for example, we might pick a massive framework to make development easier and faster but then that might have an enormous impact on the user.

Alex describes it as substituting “developer value for user value.”

The “developer experience” bait-and-switch works by appealing to the listener’s parochial interests …

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Infinite Scrolling: Pros and Cons

One-page websites are a major design trend. Especially when it comes to one-page designs packed with content, thanks to infinite scrolling techniques that allow designers to continue a webpage indefinitely. This technique is great for some sites and content types, while for others it can be cumbersome and frustrating. Like any other design technique, you […]
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Don’t use empty or low content for your design system grid examples

Dave and I had Jen Simmons on ShopTalk the other day. Jen was talking about Intrinsic Web Design and how one of the core tenets of it is grids with rows and columns that don’t necessarily change at the same rate or ones that have essentially different rules for how they behave.

For example, take this (contrived) grid setup:

.grid {
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 1fr minmax(50px, 100px) 20% auto;
}

Each of those columns will behave differently.

I’m just wrapping …

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Putting things on top of other things

A plain-language romp through the trials and tribulations of z-indexby Isabel Brison. On the surface, z-index seems simple. It’s a number and it represents what is on top of what… assuming it is positioned… and assuming it is within the same stacking context as the other things.

… that is the gist of it: stacking contexts are caused by a variety of properties and the main reasons for their existence are performance concerns and ease of implementation by browsers. …

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Reliable Places to Find Full-Time and Remote Web Design Jobs

There’s no question about it: the future of work is remote. 43 percent of Americans spent some time working remotely in 2016, leading to productivity gains for employees and cost benefits for employers. Successful startups such as Buffer have already shown that it is possible to thrive without having an office. Knowledge-work such as web design …
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