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CSS Specificity: What You May Not Have Known
Most front-end developers glaze over at the mention of the word. However, having a strong grasp of how CSS Specificity works is key to minimizing tedious debugging. Specificity tells the browser what...
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White Space and the Fallacy of ‘Above the Fold’
The amount of information available on our screens is overwhelming. I say “screens” because we interact with so many throughout the day: smartphones, laptops, desktops, watches, televisions. Even my...
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Helpful Packages for Atom Editor
It has been a few months since I’ve transitioned from using Panic’s Coda 2 to using Github’s Atom editor as my main application for working with code. I tried switching to Sublime Text a few times, and...
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Project Scaffolding with wd_s
Part II of III in the wd_s Series: Part I: History of wd_s Part II: Project Scaffolding with wd_s Part III: The Future of wd_s A new project comes in: scoped, and all. Client provides Photoshop comps,...
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One of the best aspects of my job is the problem solving. Sometimes it is just a matter of “How do I get that hero banner to overlap the hero text?” while accounting for all the browsers and screen...
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What is the Difference Between a Style Guide and Pattern Library?
In the past few years, the topic of Style Guides and Pattern Libraries has become widespread…but what is the difference? First, a little more context: Recently, the Front-end Developer team at...
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Introducing the wd_s Pattern Library!
We recently discussed the differences between a Style Guide and Pattern Library, and the opportunity for leveraging both inside of a WordPress theme. Today, I’m excited to introduce you to wd_s Pattern...
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Animations for the Web
There is no shortage of animations on the webernetz™ these days, and libraries to support them. Some web animations are good, and some gratuitous. Recently, I was fortunate to work on a few projects...
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Evolution of CSS: Becoming a CSS Composer
I have been coding CSS almost daily for over 10 years. I don’t say that to try and establish supremacy, but merely to give some context to the subsequent observations. There are quite a few days I...
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Evolution of CSS: Class Naming Methodologies
This is Part II of a series called “Evolution of CSS”. Evolution of CSS: Becoming a CSS Composer Evolution of CSS: Class Naming Methodologies Evolution of CSS: Overview of Tachyons Perhaps you’ve...
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