Zen Coding is a revolutionary plugin that has helped many developers through the years and has now reached a new level: Emmet. The most productive and time-saving text-editor plugin you will ever see. By instantly expanding simple abbreviations into complex code snippets, Emmet can turn you into a more productive developer.
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One of Bootstrap’s appeals is that it just works. It’s a significant time-saver when starting a website, so much so that major organizations such as NBC, NASA and the White House are adopting it. And it empowers even the non-designers among us to turn out something decent. But what if your company logo is a different shade of blue? Not to worry. You don’t have to stick with the defaults. In this article, Thomas Park shows some ways to customize Bootstrap to fit your needs, whether it’s a tweak to a button or a full-fledged theme.
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In this article, Jordan Moore is going to discuss a few of the lesser practiced elements that are quietly becoming part of the responsive Web design ecosystem under the umbrella of responsible Web design, a design that has been evolving rapidly ever since Ethan Marcotte coined the term two years ago. Since then, techniques have emerged, become best practices and formed part of our ever-changing methodology.
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Due to the fact that printer use is not tracked by website analytics software, print tends to be broadly ignored by Web developers. But there’s still something about having a physical sheet of paper in one’s hands, even in this age of digital saturation. By treating print as another aspect of adaptive design, we fulfill the needs of more website users.
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Everyone likes stuff that moves about on the Web, right? Remember how you cried joyful tears when you first used <marquee>? I do. I nearly sobbed all the water out of my body as I gazed upon “JAKE’S COOL WEBSITE” bobbing back and forth in uppercase serif. Of course, we’re more mature as an industry these days.
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In this article, Vasilis van Gemert will show you several tactics for deciding where to put breakpoints in a responsive design. There is the rusty idea that they should be based on common screen sizes, but there are no “common” screen sizes. You’ll be able to use the theory in this article to better design your content for all different screen sizes.
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Totally taming form elements is impossible due to the lack of detail in the CSS specification and because of the default styles applied by Web browsers. However, Gabriele Romanato shows us that, by following some common practices, reducing (though not eliminating) the differences and achieving good visual results is possible.
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In this article, Maxim Shirshin will introduce us to the history of the BEM methodology. BEM is a collection of ideas and methods. Companies and teams can integrate it into their existing workflow gradually, finding out what works best for them, using a unified language that consists of powerful terms: blocks, elements, modifiers. Learn about the challenges that a big company faces when gradually building an entire ecosystem of services with an ever-growing team of developers.
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In this article, Louis Lazaris will show us how to use white space in development code to ensure that our files are as readable and maintainable as possible. He will offer some advice on how to make our code as performance-friendly as possible. This means concatenating and minifying as many assets as possible, thus serving the smallest possible files and the least number of files.
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If people are on your website, they’re probably either skimming quickly, looking for something, or they’ve found what they’re looking for and want to read it as easily as possible. Either way, keeping text readable will help them achieve their goal.
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