CSS Viewport units have been around for the last few years, and by time, I see them being used more and more by developers. Their benefit lies in providing us with a way to size things in a fluid and dynamic way, without the need to use JavaScript. Also, it’s easy to provide a fallback … Read more
TL/DR: Diagonal layouts are great. You can build them easily with CSS. Take a look at this CodePen to see how it works. Layouts with diagonal sections are quite popular for several years now. It is not the new hot stuff, and you will probably not find it in the articles titled “Design trends for 2020”. But I … Read more
Let’s take a look at a super lightweight way to create a horizontal masonry effect for a set of arbitrarily-sized photos. Throw any set of photos at it, and they will line up edge-to-edge with no gaps anywhere. The solution is not only lightweight but also quite simple. We’ll be using an unordered list of images and … Read more
When it comes to marketing your website, there are a lot of different aspects to consider, such as speed, SEO, conversation rates, bounce rate, and many others. We normally focus solely on the performance aspect, but today we want to dive into additional ways you can optimize images for the web. The file size of your … Read more
On a desktop, websites have the space to show the full menu, but on a mobile device that space isn’t there, and you want to hide the menu behind a toggle (like a hamburger icon) and show it when people click that toggle. How do you offer both in an accessible way that keeps your … Read more
Hi there. If we haven’t met before, I’m Adam and I’m obsessed with designing forms. And I have been for almost 20 years. What is it about forms then? Every meaningful interaction on the web is achieved by a form of some sort. Whether it’s letting users renew their passport, send an email or buy … Read more
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 certain ways. We’re going to dive … Read more
There is a kind of animations that has not stopped increasing its presence in the most modern and original websites: the animations based on the scroll event of Javascript. This trend literally exploded when the parallax effects appeared, and since then its use has become more frequent. Table of Contents HTML Structure Applying CSS styles Implementing Animations … Read more
