WordPress Now Powers 30 Percent Of The Internet

March 4, 2018design tips
What began as a blogging platform nearly 15 years ago is one step closer to taking control of the entire web. WordPress officially powers 30 percent of the Internet according to W3Techs. It is also the fastest growing CMS by far, with Squarespace and Wix barely coming close. These numbers are a huge victory for WordPress …
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React Native: A Better DOM?

March 4, 2018design tips

How do we convince web developers that React Native has already solved many of the hardest GUI problems for them? Go back in time and release React Native before React DOM? Is there an easier way…

— Nicolas (@necolas) March 1, 2018

Like a lot of people in this Twitter thread, I didn’t really understand that React Native was even for building on the web. I thought it was a way to write React to build native mobile apps. Nicolas …

React Native: A Better DOM? is a post from CSS-Tricks

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Voting for Torque’s 2018 Plugin Madness Now Open

March 4, 2018design tips
Let the madness begin! Voting for Torque’s 2018 Plugin Madness is now open. Modeled after the NCAA college basketball tournament March Madness, we use a bracket-based voting system to pit plugins against one another each week. This year we asked you to nominate your favorite plugins, and today we’re happy to kick things off with …
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Three Techniques for Performant Custom Font Usage

March 4, 2018design tips

There’s a lot of good news in the world of web fonts!

  1. The forthcoming version of Microsoft Edge will finally implement unicode-range, the last modern browser to do so.
  2. Preload and font-display are landing in Safari and Firefox.
  3. Variable fonts are shipping everywhere.

Using custom fonts in a performant way is becoming far easier. Let’s take a peek at some things we can do when using custom fonts to make sure we’re being as performant as we can be.…

Three Techniques for Performant Custom Font Usage is a post from CSS-Tricks

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Serif, Sans, Script & Slab: 4 Font Types Explained

March 4, 2018design tips
Always wanted to know the difference between serif, sans, script, and slab fonts? Look no further. Take your typography game to the next level, and quit guessing if certain typefaces or font pairs work together. Back your logic with a little design theory! Having a better knowledge of fonts and typography can make explaining your […]
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V6: Color

March 1, 2018design tips

This is a lovely little post by Rob Weychert about color theory, hierarchy and how to implement those colors in a design system. It’s particularly interesting hearing what Rob has to say on HSL, which is an alternative way of setting the color of an element in CSS:

For color adjustment, HSL brings a level of granular control to the process that other color systems lack. And for implementation, Sass lets me assign color values to variables, which make system-wide …

V6: Color is a post from CSS-Tricks

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5 Pieces of AI Software for Your WordPress Site

March 1, 2018design tips
Major experts across a range of verticals are espousing the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) for their industries. AI, defined by John McCarthy in the 50’s as ‘the science and engineering of making intelligent machines’, has numerous applications From natural language processing to market analysis and data mining, AI is being used across financial, educational, …
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WordPress Myths Debunked

March 1, 2018design tips
Not only does WordPress power 29% of the entire internet, it takes up 50-60% of the CMS market share, making it the most widely used CMS in the world. Whether you are setting up a blog, reviving your website, or launching your online enterprise presence, many will recommend that you use this CMS due to its “jack-of-all-trades’ …
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