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Zach Leatherman worked closely with Chris to figure out the font loading strategy for this very website you’re reading. Zach walks us through the design in this write-up and shares techniques that can be applied to other projects. Spoiler alert: Font loading is a complex and important part of a Read more…
The IndieWeb is a thing! They’ve got a conference coming up and everything. The New Yorker is even writing about it:
Proponents of the IndieWeb offer a fairly straightforward analysis of our current social-media crisis. They frame it in terms of a single question: Who owns the servers? The bulk of our online activity takes places on servers owned by a small number of massive companies. Servers cost money to run. If you’re using a company’s servers without paying for the privilege, then that company must be finding other ways to “extract value” from you.
As I understand it, the core concept is running your own website where you are completely in control, as opposed to publishing content you create on a third-party website. It doesn’t say don’t use third-party websites. It just says syndicate there if you want to, but make your own website the canonical source.
Don’t tweet, but instead write a short blog post and auto-post it to Twitter. Don’t blog on Medium, but instead write on your own blog and plop it over to Medium. Like that. In that way, you’re getting the value of those services without giving anything up.
clip-path is one of those CSS properties we generally know is there but might not reach for often for whatever reason. It’s a little intimidating in the sense that it feels like math class because it requires working with geometric shapes, each with different values that draw certain shapes in Read more…
Welcome to an incredibly controversial topic in the land of front-end development! I’m sure that a majority of you reading this have encountered your fair share of #hotdrama surrounding how CSS should be handled within a JavaScript application. I want to preface this post with a disclaimer: There is no Read more…
Here’s a container with some child elements: item item item If I do: .container::before { content: “x” } I’m essentially doing: [[[ ::before psuedo-element here ]]] item item item Which will behave just like a child element mostly. One tricky thing is that no selector selects it other than the Read more…
In the world of likes and social statistics, reviews are very important method for leaving feedback. Users often like to know the opinions of others before deciding on items to purchase themselves, or even articles to read, movies to see, or restaurants to dine. Developers often struggle with with reviews Read more…
Did you know we have a site that lists all upcoming conferences related to front-end web design and development? We do! If you’re looking to go to one, check it out. If you’re running one, feel free to submit yours. Now that we’re running this, I’ve got loads of Pull Read more…
Hey PSDFANs! In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a dark and emotional fallen angel scene using a variety of photo manipulation techniques. You’ll work with blending techniques, adjusting colour, practice retouching, painting and more. By the end of this lesson you should mastered some practical new skills Read more…
In a prior tutorial we learned a new technique for projecting reliable decal images to target models. In this video we’re going to learn how to blend those decals into the target material for seamless integration. What You Will Learn Since material blending like this can get complex, we will Read more…
What You Will Learn Decals are an effective way to add isolated details to a model without having to incorporate it directly into the main model or main texture maps. In this video, Thibaut demonstrates a clever workflow for creating and projecting flexible, clean decals using Blender booleans and projecting Read more…
