Top Sources For Web Design Inspiration

Finding inspiration is not as easy as people think. It takes time to find out what you actually want to do with a website and which design would work for what kind of business. If you are running short on time and you are in desperate need for inspiration, here are some of the best …
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When’s the last time you SFTP’d (or the like) into a server and changed a file directly?

In the grand tradition of every single poll question I’ve ever posted, the poll below has a has a fundamental flaw. In this case, there is no option between “In the last month” and “Never” but, alas, the results are interesting:

When’s the last time you SFTP’d (or the equiv) into a server and changed a file directly?

— Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) October 9, 2018

What I was trying to get at with this poll is how many people do …

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25+ Best Microsoft Word Brochure Templates

Today, we’re bringing you a set of professionally designed Microsoft Word brochure templates to help you get a head start on your next brochure project. Every designer has a collection of pre-designed templates. These templates not only allow you to enhance your workflow but also save hours of time otherwise spent searching for an inspiring […]
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Get References from HTML Built with Template Literals

One thing JavaScript template literals are great at is little blocks of HTML. Like:

// Probably from some API or whatever
const data = {
title: "Title",
content: "Content"
};

const some_html = `

${data.title}

${data.content}

`;

But that’s still just a string. It’s not ready to append to the DOM just yet. And what if we need references to those elements inside somehow?

We’ve written about a couple of libraries that are in this vein: lit-html

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CSS-Tricks Uses Jetpack

(This is a sponsored post.)

Hey! I made a little page to explain all the ways in which this very site uses the Jetpack WordPress plugin.

Here’s the gist of it:

  • Our Jetpack subscription gives us VaultPress, which backs up literally everything on this site in real time. That helps me sleep.
  • Jetpack improves our site search and allows it to be tweaked and the design customized.
  • Jetpack connects to Twitter and Facebook, so as we publish posts it

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3 Reasons Your Bad Website is Killing Your Brand

Let’s face it. Your website is a big deal. Your website represents you, but when a prospective customer is on your website, simply put, you’re not there. You’re not sitting with you customer seeing their interactions. You’re not seeing their frustrations and disappointments. And certainly – calling you and telling you about their experience isn’t …
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Small is the New Big: An Interview with Paul Jarvis

If our server can’t keep up with the number of requests its getting, we have two basic options; scale up, add more servers or server resources, or make the program more efficient. A perfectly-optimized program would never run out of server resources. That’s a great ideal, but its hard and processing power is cheap, so …
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A Guide to Custom Elements for React Developers

I had to build a UI recently and (for the first time in a long while) I didn’t have the option of using React.js, which is my preferred solution for UI these days. So, I looked at what the built-in browser APIs had to offer and saw that using custom elements (aka Web Components) may just be the remedy that this React developer needed.

Custom elements can offer the same general benefits of React components without being tied to …

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