Category CSS

CSS is the language for styling websites, including their colors, layouts, and typography. With CSS, you can propagate styles to your HTML components, ensuring a consistent design across all types of devices, browsers, and operating systems. We highly recommend Heydon Pickering’s introduction to two key CSS features on creating consistent designs with minimal effort, in addition to using Semantic CSS With Intelligent Selectors.

Understanding Critical CSS

by Dean Hume

14 min read
No meows just yet

August 13, 2015 — The web is slow, yet there are a few simple strategies to make websites faster. One of them is inlining critical CSS into the <head> of your pages, yet how exactly do you do it if your site ... Read More…

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Drew Minns wrote

Constructing CSS Quantity Queries On The Fly

July 29, 2015 — Often within a project, the presentation of our content changes based on certain needs. We see this when we use media queries to change our styles based on the user device. CSS quantity queries follow the same concept of changing the styles based on a condition: the … Read More…

Lea Verou wrote

Designing A Flexible, Maintainable CSS Pie Chart With SVG

July 28, 2015 — Pie charts have traditionally been anything but simple to create with web technologies, despite being incredibly common for information ranging from simple stats to progress indicators and timers. Read More…

Drew Minns wrote

Quantity Ordering With CSS

July 15, 2015 — Here is your mission, should you choose to accept it: create a table of items. Each item should span a third of the content area, with the fourth item starting on a new row, much like floats. However, a particular item must always display the price at the end of the first … Read More…

Jonathan Suh wrote

Responsive Typography With Sass Maps

June 17, 2015 — Managing consistent, typographic rhythm isn’t easy, but when the type is responsive, things get even more difficult. Fortunately, Sass maps make responsive typography much more manageable. Writing the code is one thing, but keeping track of font-size values for each … Read More…

Bryan James wrote

The Making Of "In Pieces": Designing an Interactive Exhibition With CSS Clip Paths

June 2, 2015 — Web-based interactive experiences are widely used in the modern age for a variety of reasons, predominantly for the advertising of premium high-street products and services. After discovering the little-known clip-path property of CSS, I embarked upon a five-month … Read More…

Dirk Weber wrote

The Art Of SVG Filters And Why It Is Awesome

May 26, 2015 — After almost 20 years of evolution, today’s web typography, with its high-density displays and support for OpenType features, is just a step away from the typographic quality of the offline world. But there’s still one field of graphic design where we still … Read More…

Karen Menezes wrote

Creating Responsive Shapes With Clip-Path And Breaking Out Of The Box

May 11, 2015 — CSS’ clip-path property is your ticket to shape-shifting the monotonous, boxy layouts traditionally associated with flat, responsive design. You will begin to think outside the box, literally, and hexagons, stars and octagons will begin to take form on your web pages. Once … Read More…

Robert Haritonov wrote

An In-Depth Overview Of Living Style Guide Tools

April 14, 2015 — Following the market’s demand for minimalistic and consistent UIs, and the growth in modular web development, we tend to pay more and more attention to documentation and the efficiency of designer–engineer workflow with each project we undertake. Also, since the … Read More…

Ben Gremillion wrote

How To Keep Framework Development Simple And Bug-Free

March 27, 2015 — It’s just like that for your product, too: people rely on our products to work. Bugs erode trust, which in turn loses customers. So when we began updating Foundation, a responsive CSS framework, we wanted to ensure everything worked. Thoroughly. We know that many … Read More…