“Web Development” Archives

Meet my new favorite CSS technique.

Gradients and vertical rhythms and shadows, oh my!

In addition to being a writing outlet, Opus consistently gives me opportunities to roll up my sleeves and tinker.

Reducing image file sizes remains one of the easiest ways to dramatically improve your website’s performance.

What’s the best way to build a website?

Coming soon, a better way for keeping your sites’ CSS organized and easy to maintain.

Subscribers can listen to two hours of some of my favorite songs for slinging HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Sometimes it’s easy to forget just how much CSS offers today’s web developers.

If we consider our webpages important, then we ought to take the necessary steps to ensure their perpetuity.

In which I use some unorthodox and even unwise techniques to make this site’s CSS as small as possible.

Also: The best good bad movies, a new “Robotech” comic, how SEO ruins websites, and more “Wonder Woman” goodness.

Also: King Arthur, Silicon Valley silliness, and the downside of “mobile first” web design.

This is how web page layout should be. How it should’ve always been.

I redesigned Opus’ logo because I wanted to make my website faster. Did it work?

Websites can never be too fast, which means that website images can never be too small.

For the record, I still optimize my websites’ images with 56K modems in mind.