Video: Progressive Enhancement 2.0
A webpage doesn’t have to look the same in every browser. In fact, a webpage shouldn’t look the same in every browser, according to former Yahoo developer and JavaScript guru, Nicolas Zakas. Zakas,...
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The Eephus League Magazine: Pitch-Perfect Web Design
The Eephus League Magazine: showing publishing pros how it's done. Baseball season is already well under way, but it’s never too late for another site about America’s favorite pastime — especially when...
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Cure the High-Res Blurs With SVG and Icon Fonts
The high-res future is coming fast. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired.com The rise of high-resolution displays means that web developers need resolution-independent graphics. The good-old PNG icons we’ve...
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Create More Accessible Color Schemes With ‘Contrast Ratio’
Quick, easy contrast ratios. Image: Screenshot/Webmonkey. Making websites accessible to users with disabilities — things like poor vision, blindness, limited dexterity — has been central to the mission...
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Twitter Creator Believes You’re More Than Just a ‘User’
The UserLand Software logo. Image: Dave Winer What’s in a word? A lot according to Jack Dorsey, the CEO of mobile-payments company Square. Dorsey, who also help create Twitter, believes that the...
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Turning Off Responsive Design
A handful of the many canvases your site will adorn. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired.com In the bad old days of just four years ago it was pretty common for mobile users to get shunted off to some...
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Simplify Responsive Design With ZURB’s ‘Foundation’ Web Toolkit
Foundation 4. Image: Screenshot/Webmonkey. ZURB has released a major new version of its popular Foundation framework, a web development toolkit for quickly building responsive websites. The new...
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Mobile Browsers Help Users Avoid Bloated Webpages
Stop feeding your website donuts. Image: D. Sharon Pruitt/Flickr.Websites are getting fatter, dramatically fatter, with the average page size of sites tracked by the HTTPArchive now nearly 1.3 MB. If...
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You Suck at Search
Image: Screenshot/WebmonkeyEven if you’re pretty good at searching, the majority of your website’s users are probably not. In fact, user experience expert Jakob Nielsen thinks most people are so bad...
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What the Tablet-Laptop Hybrid Means for Web Developers
Hybrids. Image: Screenshot/Webmonkey.The advent of hybrid laptops that double as tablets or offer some sort of touch input has greatly complicated the life of web developers. A big part of developing...
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