“Web Development” Archives

If your website uses “momentum” or “inertial” scrolling, I immediately want to stop reading and leave.

It won’t make your website cool. It will, however, annoy and frustrate your users.

A recently announced CSS property solves a problem that’s been plaguing web developers for far too long.

Third-party UI libraries can be useful, but you might be pleasantly surprised at what’s possible with plain ol’ HTML these days.

As modern CSS continues to improve, we ought to rethink our web development workflows and toolkits.

This HTML element is a really simple way to add fully customizable — and accessible — modals to your website.

Turns out, building a website using only the web’s most basic building blocks is pretty enjoyable (and performant).

Many web developers and content managers will be pleasantly surprised by the web performance gains that can be achieved with minimal effort.

Not every website needs to run on a CMS, implement a build process, or use a framework.

Web development doesn’t need to be so complicated, nor should it be.

With a few lines of JavaScript, you can improve your website’s performance and still gather useful analytics data.

As CSS grows increasingly robust, it allows us to do things that would’ve been impossible even just a few years ago.

You don’t need to sacrifice style to achieve good website performance.

This time around, though, let’s throw AVIF and WebP into the mix.

Although still conceptual, native CSS mixins could lead to cleaner CSS and further reduce the need for tools like Sass.

The “:has()” pseudo-class can solve some unique design problems, resulting in more adaptive, even reactive website designs.

I’m trying to push back against an ongoing trend in web development to over-complicate… well… everything.

I like having some idea of how Opus is doing. Tinylytics provides that in a simple, well-supported package.

Modern CSS features, like logical properties, open up new avenues for website functionality and accessibility.

With just a few, simple steps, I was able to make a dramatic improvement to a client’s website.