I first blogged about responsive data tables in 2011. When responsive web design was first becoming a thing, there were little hurdles like data tables that had to be jumped. The nature of elements are that they have something a minimum width depending on the content they contain and that can easily exceed the width of a small screen device. This image I made then still covers the issue pretty well: Except… maybe they don’t equally suck. If that … Read article “Under-En
We made one! It’s open source if you want to make it better or fix things. There are quite a few purpose-built fonts for writing code. The point of this site is to show you some of the nicest options so you can be aware of them and perhaps pick one out to try that suites your taste.
We used screenshots of the code to display just so we could show off some of the paid fonts without managing a … Read article “A Microsite Showcasing Coding Fonts”
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Some HTML elements come with preset designs, like the inconveniently small squares of elements, the limited-color bars of elements, and the “something about them bothers me” arrows of the elements. We can style them to match the modern aesthetics of our websites while making use of their functionalities. There are also many elements that rarely get used as both their default appearance and functionality are less needed in modern web designs. One such HTML element is … Read article R
Matthias Ott, comparing how painter Gerhard Richter paints (do stuff, step back, take a look) to what can be the website building process and what can wreck it:
[…] this reminds me of designing and building for the Web: The unpredictability, the peculiarities of the material, the improvisation, the bugs, the happy accidents. There is one crucial difference, though. By using static wireframes and static layouts, by separating design and development, we are often limiting our ability to hav
You might know a few ways to create charts with pure CSS. Some of them are covered here on CSS-Tricks, and many others can be found on CodePen, but I haven’t seen many examples of “area charts” (imagine a line chart with the bottom area filled in), particularly any in HTML and CSS alone. In this article, we’ll do just that, using a semantic and accessible HTML foundation. Let’s start with the HTML To simplify things, we will … Read article “How to Make an Area Chart With CSS&#
First, quickly: AWS Amplify has a new Admin UI. Amplify always had a CLI that helps you build projects by setting up stuff like auth, storage, and APIs. That’s super useful, but now, you can do those things with the new Admin UI. And more, like model your data (!!), right from a local UI. That’s great for people like… me (I like my GUIs). Now, slower. Let’s start with the idea of Jamstack. Static Hosting + Services, right? … Read article “Amplify, Amplified&