In today’s Adobe Photoshop video tutorial I’m going to show you a useful technique for applying a design to a textured background, such as wood. This is great for creating rustic wooden signs, or any other effect where your design looks like it has been painted on a surface and Read more…
Having a “parent selector” in CSS is mentioned regularly as something CSS could really use. I feel like I’ve had that thought plenty of times myself, but then when I ask my brain for a use case, I find it hard to think of one. Well, I just had one Read more…
Wufoo has always been great with integrations. They have integrations with specific apps, like Campaign Monitor, Mailchimp, and Typekit, but they also integrate with Zapier, which is sort of like an integration inside an integration. That’s kinda meta, but the idea is actually pretty straightforward: Wufoo integrates with Zapier, which Read more…
Markdown supports HTML, so if you need to, say, embed a YouTube video, you can just copy and paste the embed code from them, drop it into a Markdown document, and you should be good to go. With YouTube specifically, there are other options. But in general, you don’t need Read more…
Gatsby and WordPress is an interesting combo to watch. On one hand, it makes perfect sense. Gatsby can suck up data from anywhere, and with WordPress having a native REST API, it makes for a good pairing. Of course Gatsby has a first-class plugin for sourcing data from WordPress that Read more…
This demo from Jérémie Patonnier is incredible. Make sure to look at it in Firefox because some Chrome bug apparently prevents the entire thing from working. The big idea is that the entire demo is one element. That’s it. It is duplicated with elements when needed, and each individual duplication Read more…
Say you have a design system and you’re having a moment where it doesn’t have what you need. You need to diverge and create something new. Yesenia Perez-Cruz categorizes these moments from essentially ooops to niiice: There are three kinds of deviations that come up in a design system: Unintentional Read more…
I wrote a piece for Layout, the blog of my hosting sponsor Flywheel. Stick around in this field for a while, and you’ll see these libraries, languages, build processes, and heck, even entire philosophies on how best to build websites come and go like a slow tide. You might witness Read more…
There’s been a run of tools, articles, and resources about color lately. Please allow me to close a few tabs by rounding them up here for your enjoyment. Curated colors in context Happy Hues demonstrates a bunch of color palettes in the context of the site itself. That’s a nice Read more…
Someone emailed me: What approach to building a site should I take? Build a single responsive website Build a site on a single domain, but detect mobile, and render a separate mobile site Build a separate mobile site on a subdomain It’s funny how quickly huge industry-defining conversations fade from Read more…
