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 […]
Read more

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

The post Get References from HTML Built with Template Literals appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

Read more

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

The post CSS-Tricks Uses Jetpack appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

Read more

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 …
The post 3 Reasons Your Bad Website is Killing Your Brand appeared first on Torque.
Read more

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 …
The post Small is the New Big: An Interview with Paul Jarvis appeared first on Torque.
Read more

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 …

The post A Guide to Custom Elements for React Developers appeared first on CSS-Tricks.

Read more

20+ Best Instagram Post & Story Templates 2018

We’ve handpicked a collection of Instagram post and Story templates with professional designs. You can easily customize these templates to add your own text and images to create a more successful Instagram content strategy. Instagram is one of the best platforms for promoting brands and businesses. But, with millions of posts being added every day, […]
Read more

UI vs. UX: A Culinary Comparison

If the title of this article drew you in, there’s a good chance you’ve seen some kind of Venn diagram with a dozen circles showing the overlap between user interface (UI) and user experience (UX). This article doesn’t dispute any of that. But it does explain UI vs. UX in an alternate way. One of […]
Read more