Articles by CSS Tricks from February 2013

How could I not link to this CSS trick saturated talk by Lea? Great follow up to the original. Direct Link to Article — Permalink…More CSS Secrets is a post from CSS-Tricks...

For the larger promotional boxes in the design of Uniqlo.com, they use animated stripes that reveal on hover. It's kind of awesome, if you ask me. Perhaps because they wanted to share the awesome with...

Some design patterns have been explored fairly thoroughly as we've moved into an era of responsive design. Others not so much. There are plenty of complex patterns that are still worth exploring, like...

Eric Meyer (@meyerweb) is a CSS champion, author, and co-founder of the An Event Apart conferences. He talked about the end of an era of layout (and the beginning of a new one).These are my notes from...

Nicolas Gallagher (@necolas) is a front end developer at Twitter and has worked on big projects like HTML5 Boilerplate and Normalize.css. Nicolas talked about question old assumptions about front end ...

Tomomi Imura (@girlie_mac) works on the Open Web at Nokia and talked about real life use cases for HTML5 on mobile devices.These are my notes from her presentation at W3Conf in San Francisco as part o...

Luz Caballero (@gerbille) used to be Dev Relations at Opera and talked about the mathematical world of device orientation on mobile devices.These are my notes from her presentation at W3Conf in San Fr...

Ariya Hidayat (@ariyahidayat) works at Sencha and created PhantomJS and Esprima. He talked about front end web performance.These are my notes from his presentation at W3Conf in San Francisco as part o...

Brad Hill (@hillbrad) works at PayPal work works with the W3C on security issues.These are my notes from his presentation at W3Conf in San Francisco as part of this live blog series.You can't read any...

Lonie Watson (@leoniewatson) is a digital accessibility consultant from Bristol, UK. She believes in the importance of accessibility and also that it's not a hinderance to creativity.These are my note...

Joshua Davis is an artist who sees the web as a creative canvas. He uses computers to make art, but isn't limited to that as a tool.These are my notes from his presentation at W3Conf in San Francisco ...

I read this Tim Kadlec article a while ago but the more I think about it the more I like it. If you are going to take performance seriously (instead of just paying lip service to it or chipping away a...

I need to do a better job at at using the role attribute. It's so easy and has so many benefits. Important note: all content should be within a landmark role. Steve Faulkner shows the way.Direct Link ...

Flexbox is pretty awesome and is certainly part of the future of layout. The syntax has changed quite a bit over the past few years, hence the "Old" and "New" syntax. But if we weave together the old,...

I thought my trip to New Zealand for Webstock warranted a special workshop. In honor of their unique national bird, I created a little one-pager website The Kiwis of New Zealand. The site started life...

Martin Wolf interviews yours truly on his blog, which is a very good mostly-link-blog-with-commentary you should subscribe to.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…The Amazing Web Interview i...

A reader (let's leave them anonymous) writes in:The agency where I work has never produced a responsive design. As a developer I'm handed fixed-width designs in the form of static PSD comps. I'm then ...

In which Dirk Lth shows an experimental RWD technique where layouts (and just about everything) is controlled with rem units and the base font size is adjusted based on screen width available.REMux: A...

Ana Tudor with some fantastic visualizations to help understand how CSS gradients are rendered.Direct Link to Article — Permalink…Dig Deep Into CSS Gradients is a post from CSS-Tricks...

The recent post about marking up navigation in lists (or not) generated nearly 200 comments of mostly-great discussion on this topic. I thought it would be of benefit to wrap up up the important point...

Alt text has come up a bunch of times for me recently. One reader wrote to me asking if people really use them anymore. He does and said "I feel alone in carrying out the good fight." ALA posted a rem...

The latest poll on CSS-Tricks was all about version control usage. People voted on how much they use version control, from never to using on every single project. Here's the breakdown:And now a few pa...