May 2012
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SMACSS workshop notes
Here are my notes from the SMACSS workshop in Atlanta yesterday. These are no substitute for attending a session or getting the book.
Document your stuff
create a styleguide
describe naming convention
Categorization suggestions
base
what it should look like by default
could be reset
layout
how to divide up major parts of the page
header, sidebar, content
.layout-header,...
More on flex vs scale
There are new CSS properties being established to support device width aware scaling, Chris Coyier discusses it in Viewport Sized Typography. Also worth noting FitText for headline scaling.
Flex vs Scale
One of the reasons designers have favored fixed vs. fluid on the web is not just predictability across platforms, it has to do with line length. Fluid layouts have only been possible since computer based displays have permitted them, but grid systems greatly pre-date them. If, for aesthetic and readability purposes, you’re aiming to have your text blocks max out at around 10 words, the width...
April 2012
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Tutorial writers, please avoid puns. I see this all the time in web development tutorials. In an effort to provide “a spoon of sugar to make the medicine go down” tutorials are unintentionally obfuscated by naming puns. Some are positively cryptic, others are simply an unhelpful speed bump in the learning process.
On this page is a relatively harmless one from GitHub. We are going to...
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There exists still a longstanding (in web scale terms) problem of how to get content onto the web. My version of this problem presupposes a few things:
persons creating content for a website are often non-technical
“marking up” content with HTML requires more technical expertise than most people are willing to invest the time to learn
there is no standard or predictable...
This blog’s theme/design, is mid-development, I’m not going to make something super polished offline and then launch it.. i’m just going to refine and iterate the theme over the next few days.
I’m not so sure if this will work, but I’m going to try to incorporate affiliate links here in a tasteful way. I’ll try to offer up some real value (pick amazon products...
There are powerful tools that make things possible, “pro” type applications like video editing suites and 3D rendering programs. They tend to favor feature richness over ease of use.
Then there are tools often labeled “consumer” that favor ease of use over feature richness.
I’d categorize Tumult’s Hype as the latter type. So called “Pro” users...
I’ve been in a non-blogging state for a long time now. Not writing about my web development interests has meant less ideas refined, less investigation, less learning. My holdup had been various self imposed blocks. “Don’t start until you fix the link rot from your old now-defunct blog”, “Don’t start till you find or create the perfect blog platform”, etc....
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