Access All Areas members have a wonderful collection of Lightroom Presets to download this week, courtesy of PSD Stack. These Airy Wedding presets give your photos a bright, clean and soft look that is ideal for creating timeless photos of Read more…
In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to create an abstract piece of retro-futuristic artwork known as a Polyscape. It’s a combination of polygon shapes and landscape or cityscape photographs, and sometimes even pictures of outer-space! Read more…
We can make variables in CSS pretty easily: :root { –scale: 1; } And we can declare them on any element: .thing { transform: scale(var(–scale)); } Even better for an example like this is applying the variable on a user Read more…
Whenever we build simple or complex layouts using CSS Grid, we’re usually positioning items with line numbers. Grid layouts contain grid lines that are automatically indexed with positive and negative line numbers (that is unless we explicitly name them). Positioning Read more…
Neither do I! And that’s probably because there’s a lot happening in WordPress-land. The evolution towards full-site editing (FSE) introduces frequent changes to the way we build themes and plugins, and at such break-neck speed that the documentation itself is Read more…
If a utility class only does one thing, chances are you don’t want it to be overridden by any styles coming from elsewhere. One approach is to use !important to be 100% certain the style will be applied, regardless of Read more…
The GOV.UK team recently published “How and why we removed jQuery from GOV.UK“. This was an insightful look at how an organization can assess its tooling and whether something is still the best tool for the job. This is not Read more…
Alright, so the last time we checked in, we were using CSS Grid and combining them with CSS clip-path and mask techniques to create grids with fancy shapes. Here’s just one of the fantastic grids we made together: CodePen Embed Read more…
That ain’t rhetorical: I’m really interested in finding great use cases for CSS multi-column layouts. The answer seems straightforward. Use columns when you want to split any content into columns, right? Here is generally the sort of example you’ll find Read more…
If the thought of handwriting code seems silly, it might surprise you to know that it’s inevitable. If you’re unsure, think about the last job interview you did, and remember how there was no computer around in the interview room Read more…
