“Mobile-first” responsive web design is the now-mainstream best practice of using min-width media queries to only serve up the styles that are needed for the device that’s loading the page. For a more detailed explanation, read this fantastic article. First reading about the mobile-first approach in 2011 was a real “ah-ha!” moment for me. Sure, [...]
View demo and download I love my 3-year-old and my constantly puking or feuding cats. Well, one cat anyway. The other one I tolerate because I love my wife. But anyway, when it comes down to it, if too many of the aforementioned family members and I are together in our little house, it’s really [...]
We recently launched a great site for a local jewelry shop here in Salt Lake City called Fankhauser Jewelry, and we got to have a bunch of fun with CSS animation on it. Our friend Chris, who runs the shop, wanted to feature one of his custom-made wrist watches actually working (inside and out) on [...]
View demo Over the course of the past year, the way I approach CSS has fundamentally changed for two reasons. The first reason is that I now use SASS. I could drone on for days about how amazing it is, but I think enough blog posts have been written on that topic. (Having said that, [...]
When I first got my CSS on (did I really just say that?) back in 2006, managing color values in my style sheet was pretty simple: I had my colors for text, and then my colors for elements with solid backgrounds, and that was about it. If I had my act together, maybe I’d write [...]