Table Design Patterns On The Web Table Design Patterns On The Web Huijing Chen 2019-01-24T13:30:57+01:00 2019-01-24T12:32:19+00:00 Tables are a design pattern for displaying large amounts of data in rows and columns, making them efficient for doing comparative analysis on categorical objects. Tables have been used for this purpose as early as the 2nd century and…
The Smashing Survey: Join In! The Smashing Survey: Join In! Rachel Andrew 2019-01-22T13:00:09+01:00 2019-01-22T12:02:48+00:00 Our entire aim here at Smashing Magazine — and my focus as Editor-in-Chief — is to provide the most helpful and interesting content and resources for web professionals. We aim not only to introduce new tools, technologies, and best practices, but…
Introducing The Component-Based API Introducing The Component-Based API Leonardo Losoviz 2019-01-21T13:00:21+01:00 2019-01-21T12:14:45+00:00 An API is the communication channel for an application to load data from the server. In the world of APIs, REST has been the more established methodology, but has lately been overshadowed by GraphQL, which offers important advantages over REST. Whereas REST requires…
Monthly Web Development Update 1/2019: Rethinking Habits And Finding Custom Solutions Monthly Web Development Update 1/2019: Rethinking Habits And Finding Custom Solutions Anselm Hannemann 2019-01-18T12:40:24+01:00 2019-01-18T12:42:02+00:00 What could be better than starting the new year with some new experiments? Today I figured it was time to rethink JavaScript tooling in one of my projects. And…
Grabbing Visual Attention With The Visual Cortex Grabbing Visual Attention With The Visual Cortex Susan Weinschenk 2019-01-17T13:15:03+01:00 2019-01-17T12:27:48+00:00 (This is a sponsored post.) You are designing a landing page. The goal of the page is to get people to notice, and hopefully click on a button on the screen to subscribe to a monthly newsletter….
HTML5 Input Types: Where Are They Now? HTML5 Input Types: Where Are They Now? Drew McLellan 2019-01-16T14:30:11+01:00 2019-01-17T12:27:48+00:00 One of the stand-out headline features of HTML5 for many designers and developers was the addition of a number of new types of form input that could be used. For years, we’d been confined to using single-line…
How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet Jack Lenox 2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00 2019-01-15T12:45:35+00:00 You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This electricity needs to be produced somewhere. In most countries, this means the burning of fossil fuels….
Web Standards: The What, The Why, And The How Web Standards: The What, The Why, And The How Amy Dickens 2019-01-14T14:00:17+01:00 2019-01-15T12:45:35+00:00 The World Wide Web is an interesting place. As the Internet has grown and become more common place, it has become a gigantic instrument of change in terms of the way in which…
When And How To Use CSS Multi-Column Layout When And How To Use CSS Multi-Column Layout Rachel Andrew 2019-01-11T15:00:30+02:00 2019-01-11T15:32:41+00:00 In all of the excitement about CSS Grid Layout and Flexbox, another layout method is often overlooked. In this article I’m going to take a look at Multi-column Layout — often referred to as multicol…
Designing A Font Based On Old Handwriting Designing A Font Based On Old Handwriting Carolyn Porter 2019-01-10T13:00:02+01:00 2019-01-10T12:02:39+00:00 Designers create handwriting-based connected cursive fonts for a variety of reasons: to immortalize the loops and swirls of a loved one’s handwriting, to digitize the penmanship of a person or document of historic significance, or to transform…
