New on Wufoo: Form Manager Beta, File Manager Beta, Entry Manager Beta

August 8, 2018design tips

Wufoo really is firing on all cylinders lately! As you may know, I’ve been using Wufoo here on this site, and pretty much every other site I’ve ever made, to power the web forms for over a decade. That’s a dang long time, which more than proves to me Wufoo is a form solution to trust. But also a product that improves!

There is a new Form Manager, Entry Manager, and File Manager.

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Here’s how I recreated theory11’s login form — how would you do it?

August 7, 2018design tips

I ran across a super cool design for a login form over on the website theory11.com. Actually, the whole site and the products they make are incredibly well designed, there’s just something about the clean and classy form that really got me. Plus, it just so happened that the CodePen Challenge that coming week was based on forms, so I took a few minutes and tried slapping it together.

Fadeout vector pattern

One of the things I thought …

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Chrome 69

August 7, 2018design tips

Chrome 69 is notable for us CSS developers:

  • Conic gradients (i.e. background: conic-gradient(red, green, blue);): We’ve got lots of interesting articles about conic gradients here, and here’s some use cases and a polyfill from Lea Verou.
  • Logical box model properties: margin, padding, and border all get an upgrade for more use cases. Think of how we have margin-left now — the “left” part doesn’t make much sense when we switch directions. Now, we’ll have margin-inline-start for

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Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 8: Developing New Features For Extensible WordPress Plugins Using Test-Driven Development

August 7, 2018design tips
In my last post in this series on advanced PHP object-oriented programming for WordPress development, I walked through refactoring the low-level API of a plugin, using tests to guide the process and make sure everything works correctly. I say “low-level API” because the focus was on the internal of how the system will work. I …
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Browser painting and considerations for web performance

August 7, 2018design tips

The process of a web browser turning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into a finished visual representation is quite complex and involves a good bit of magic. Here’s a simplified set of steps the browser goes through:

  1. Browser creates the DOM and CSSOM.
  2. Browser creates the render tree, where the DOM and styles from the CSSOM are taken into account (display: none elements are avoided).
  3. Browser computes the geometry of the layout and its elements based on the render tree.

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Border Design: 8 Tips & Modern Examples

August 7, 2018design tips
Graphic designers have been using borders for as long as they have been designing things. And they’re a fun element to play with. We’re taking a look at eight border design concepts (most of them you can actually download as project starters), along with tips for usage and some examples that you can try in […]
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