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Highlight Text When a User Scrolls Down to That Piece of Text
I was reading a great post on Lene Saile’s blog and noticed a cool little design feature on her site that highlights a line of text once you scroll to it…
Design Patterns that Encourage Junk Data
A post from Remy on Mastodon recently got me thinking: Been picking up some of the jsbin archive work. Today, there's currently 62 millions bins stored. The…
Bye bye build steps
I’m removing all build steps from all of my websites. I’m just so damn sick of having to install NPM scripts and run CLI commands every time I want to update my…
Vanilla CSS and efficiencies over Sass
I wrote about how I ditched my Sass build step for vanilla CSS. As part of that process, I ended up refactoring a lot of code in a way that made it…
Just Build Websites
Here’s something you might not know about me: I like to play golf. As such, I follow a couple of golf-related brands on social media as a guilty pleasure. The…
Own Your Web – Issue 15: Home Sweet Home
Let’s talk about the first thing many of your visitors will see and thus one of the most important places on any personal website: the home page. “The…
Cascade Layers are useless
Cascade Layers are useless if you don‘t understand the problems they solve and use them in combination with other solutions that tackle…
Offloading JavaScript With Custom Properties
Sometimes a web development client doesn’t know quite what they want. Trying to guess is…
Displays May Be Ultra-Wide, But That Doesn't Mean Your Web Page Should Be
Chances are, you’ve likely visited a website whose design incorporates the full width of the browser. You may have noticed the content wasn’t easy to digest as…
Why you need a killer web design proposal and how to write one
Buy the Killer Proposals template Proposals can also be effective selling tools, answering clients’ questions and encouraging them to hire you. Your goal should…