Articles by Smashing Magazine from February 2022

Web Vitals are the new gold standard in performance due to their direct correlation with the users experience. In this article, youll learn what monitoring can do and how RayGun can help you sustain p...

If we want our WordPress plugins to offer a settings page that is fully powered by blocks, how can we do it? Since Full Site Editing doesn't support this feature yet, we need to code a custom solution...

How do text typing and editing work on the web? Although this process might seem straightforward, there is a lot of technical nuance behind its apparent simplicity. This article looks at how typing on...

In this episode, were talking about Responsible JavaScript. What does it mean for code to be responsible, and how should we approach projects differently? Drew McLellan talks to expert Jeremy Wagner t...

In this episode, were talking about Responsible JavaScript. What does it mean for code to be responsible, and how should we approach projects differently? Drew McLellan talks to expert Jeremy Wagner t...

You dont need to be a full DevOps engineer if you want to introduce a testing build routine. With the help of some testing frameworks and GitHub actions, Ramona Schwering gives a short kick-off to hel...

Markdown in all its flavors, interpretations, and forks wont go away. However, its important to look at emerging content formats that try to encompass modern needs. In this article, Knut shares his ad...

We all need a little inspiration boost every now and again. In this post, we collected inspiring resources from all across the web for you beautiful eye candy, tips to challenge your skills, and usef...

In this article, Leonardo Losoviz discusses some potential consequences as well as positive outcomes of WordPress joining the Block Protocol....

Voice is a powerful tool that we can use to communicate with each other. This article covers the most critical aspects of designing for voice user interfaces: designing the conversation and designing ...

This installment of *Web Design Done Well* celebrates weird and wacky websites. Sites with sweet, innocent, sometimes pointless purposes. Are they money makers? Game changers? Not necessarily, but the...

In this article, Steven Hoober shines the spotlight on Fitts Law and explains why we should always ask questions and consider what particular guidelines and lessons mean to our users and our products....

Statoscope is an instrument that analyses your webpack-bundles. Created by Sergey Melukov, it started out as an experimental version in late 2016, which has now become a full-fledged toolkit for viewi...

While QR codes have many uses and can be leveraged at many touch points, they are just one of dozens of technologies that can improve the customers journey. Stanislav Khrustalev shares his advice with...

In this second part, Noam suggests a few patterns of how to use the web platform directly as an alternative to some of the solutions that are offered by frameworks....

In this article, well look specifically at what we can do to reduce the impact of social media embeds and social sharing widgets — or even some strategies to avoid them altogether. While the spo...

In this article, Adrian Bece shares more about the benefits and caveats of code-splitting and how page performance and load times can be improved by dynamically loading expensive, non-critical JavaScr...

Its shipping! Meet Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces, our brand-new guide with guidelines and best practices to improve usability and accessibility on mobile. 400 pages. For designers and developers ...

Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers is for you. Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a cal...