Can You Create a Functional (and Effective) Website Without Spending a Dollar?

January 13, 2019design tips
It’s said that nothing tastes as good as free, but is it really possible to get a website up and running without spending any money at all? This is a common question – for both beginners and experts to site development. In fact, there are plenty of tools, platforms, and services that offer completely free …
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Design v17

January 13, 2019design tips

We rolled out a new site design on January 1! This is the 17th version of CSS-Tricks if you can believe that. The versions tend to evolve a decent amount beyond the initial launch, but we archive screenshots on this design history page. Like I said in our 2018 thank you post:

This is easily the most time, effort, and money that’s gone into a redesign since the big v10 design. There are a lot of aesthetic changes,

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The Ethics of Web Performance

January 13, 2019design tips

Tim Kadlec on the issues surrounding poor web performance and why it’s so important for us to care about making our sites as fast as possible:

Poor performance can, and does, lead to exclusion. This point is extremely well documented by now, but warrants repeating. Sites that use an excess of resources, whether on the network or on the device, don’t just cause slow experiences, but can leave entire groups of people out.

There is a growing gap between what

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Brochure Design Ideas & Inspiration for 2019

January 13, 2019design tips
Almost every designer has created a brochure at some point. And there’s a strong possibility you’ll be asked to design another! Whether it’s for a client or to promote your own business, there’s an art to designing a brochure. And then there’s an added challenge: brochure design isn’t just for print anymore. Digital brochures are […]
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Slice and Dice a Disc with CSS

January 12, 2019design tips

I recently came across an interesting sliced disc design. The disc had a diagonal gradient and was split into horizontal slices, offset a bit from left to right. Naturally, I started to think what would the most efficient way of doing it with CSS be.

Sliced gradient disc.

The first thought was that this should be doable with border-radius, right? Well, no! The thing with border-radius is that it creates an elliptical corner whose ends are tangent to the … Read article

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Re: Pleasing Color Palettes

January 10, 2019design tips

There are so many tools out there to help you pick colors. I totally get it! It’s hard! When colors are done well, it’s like magic. It adds a level of polish to a design that can really set it apart.

Let’s look at some, then talk about this idea some more.

Here’s one I just saw called Color Koala:

It spits out five colors at ya and you’re off to the races.

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How to Quickly Improve the User Experience (UX) on WordPress

January 10, 2019design tips
There is a strong link between your website’s user experience and amount of traffic. User experience (UX) is how users behave and feel when they’re using your site. For 83 percent of consumers, a seamless experience across all devices is important. Considering the UX should be one of your main goals when developing your site. …
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