Author Sergey Chikuyonok

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Sergey Chikuyonok is a Russian front-end web-developer and writer with a big passion on optimization: from images and JavaScript effects to working process and time-savings on coding.

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CSS GPU Animation: Doing It Right

December 9, 2016 — Most people now know that modern web browsers use the GPU to render parts of web pages, especially ones with animation. For example, a CSS animation using the transform property looks much smoother than one using the left and top properties. But if you ask, “How do I get … Read More…

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Introducing LiveStyle: Better, Stronger And Smarter CSS Live Reload

August 8, 2013 — Tools for live CSS editing aren’t new these days. You may already be familiar with tools like LiveReload, CodeKit and Brackets. So, why would someone ever need to create yet another tool and even call it a “live CSS editor of the new generation”? Read More…

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How To Optimize Images With HTML5 Canvas

August 30, 2011 — Images have always been the heaviest component of websites. Even if high-speed Internet access gets cheaper and more widely available, websites will get heavier more quickly. If you really care about your visitors, then spend some time deciding between good-quality images … Read More…

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Zen Coding: A Speedy Way To Write HTML/CSS Code

November 21, 2009 — In this post we present a new speedy way of writing HTML code using CSS-like selector syntax — a handy set of tools for high-speed HTML and CSS coding. It was developed by our author Sergey Chikuyonok and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Read More…

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PNG Optimization Guide: More Clever Techniques

July 25, 2009 — This post is a second part of the article Clever PNG Optimization Techniques that we posted last week. As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-featured transparency. It’s a lossless, robust, very good replacement of the … Read More…

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How To Optimize PNG

July 15, 2009 — As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-featured transparency. It’s a lossless, robust, very good replacement of the elder GIF image format. As a Photoshop (or any other image editor) user you might think that there … Read More…

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Clever JPG Optimization Techniques

July 1, 2009 — When people talk about image optimization, they consider only the limited parameters offered by popular image editors, like the “Quality” slider, the number of colors in the palette, dithering and so on. Also, a few utilities, such as OptiPNG and jpegtran, manage … Read More…