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22 Articles
How to show users their plain-text passwords
A common feature that many websites now implement, is the ability to toggle on and off the password visibility on a signup form....
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October 18 2021
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2 min read
Top FontAwesome alternatives to use on your websites
Loading icons onto a web page used to be a difficult and tedious task. In the past web developers essentially had to create and load image s...
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August 06 2021
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4 min read
6 Web Design Mistakes That Ruin User Experience
It’s now a necessity for a business to have an excellent online presence to remain competitive in the marketplace. This makes your webs...
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July 25 2021
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4 min read
Taking a look at Google's Material Icons Font
If you have any type of icons on your websites, then odds are you are either using image files to render them or perhaps the ever so popular...
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July 20 2021
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3 min read
How to fade out elements without using jQuery
In the past, fading out an element in JavaScript involved literally looping thousands of times per second and gradually reducing the opacity...
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June 23 2021
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4 min read
4 reasons why you might want to avoid infinite scrolling
Infinite scrolling is a somewhat popular UI/UX technique for loading content asynchronously to the user. In a sense, as you scroll through t...
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January 22 2021
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4 min read
How to implement Dark Mode on your websites with JavaScript
I'll start by saying that there is no native method for dark mode in HTML and CSS just yet. So whatever method you end up using will have to...
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September 17 2020
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4 min read
The one downside with using CSS frameworks
I am all for making my coding and front-end life as smooth a process as possible. And thanks to the advancements in technology and our human...
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September 18 2019
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5 min read
Should you follow mobile-first design principles?
The mobile-first design pattern came into popularity over a decade ago mainly in response to the increase number in smartphone users and new...
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August 12 2019
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6 min read
When to use 'em' and 'rem' in CSS
Styling elements on the web can be a tricky thing, particularly these days with hundreds of display sizes, various pixel densities and vario...
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July 16 2019
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3 min read
Font Awesome has changed the way that I build websites
I don't get paid by Font Awesome, but after I hype them up, they will at some point. Font Awesome has changed the way that I build websites ...
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January 01 2018
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4 min read
A 5 Minute Guide To CSS Transitions
CSS transitions have been out for a bit now, but many websites still don't make full use of them, unfortunately. And they should, as they p...
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November 09 2016
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6 min read
How To Make Responsive HTML Tables
The beloved HTML table is one of the oldest elements on the web and one of the most used elements. It's incredibly important, for a number ...
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November 03 2016
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4 min read
Working with the loading icon
The little guy that helps us decide whether we should click again, or wait it out for another 2 minutes. It's a love hate relationship with...
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November 02 2016
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4 min read
Setting Up A/B Tests With Google Experiments
If you're looking to make a change on your website but are worried that your users might not like it, then you're probably overthinking thi...
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October 14 2016
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5 min read
Site Optimization With Google PageSpeed Part 2
A while back I did a Google PageSpeed audit on my website, and documented the process of how I went about fixing some of those issues that ...
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October 10 2016
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5 min read
The Web Isn't Valid Anymore, And That's Not Ok
The language of the internet is and always will be HTML. And this HTML is standardized by the W3C, or the World Wide Web Consortium. The W3...
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May 26 2016
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4 min read
The Arduous Journey To A Faster Website
Every now and then I'll run a page audit on one of my websites and then immediately become depressed when I see the results. It's hard to k...
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April 09 2016
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4 min read
Trying Out: Google's Material Design Lite
Google just unveiled Material Design Lite out into the wild for all to use, and so I'm going to be trying it out on a few of my websites th...
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July 10 2015
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4 min read
What It's Really Like To Make A Website
When you think of a website, you think of WordPress nowadays. And why wouldn't you, WordPress runs 23% of all websites. With so many online...
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May 01 2015
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5 min read
What No One Tells You About Making A Website
So you want to make a website. You have an idea or bits and pieces of an idea, you get a cheap hosting account and a $9.99 domain name and ...
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December 02 2014
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6 min read
Working With CSS3 FlexBox
FlexBox, or Flexible Box, is a CCS3 layout mode that arranges the elements in a way that they behave predictably when the page changes to a...
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September 12 2014
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4 min read
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