I have recently been interested in the difference of opinions between the different browser vendors about the future of the web — specifically in the various efforts to push web platform capabilities closer to native platforms, such as Chromium’s Project Fugu. The main positions can be summarized as: Google (together with partners like Intel, Microsoft…
Instagram stories are a great way to connect with your followers and give them a glimpse into your personal life as well as exclusive behind the scene updates. However, creating an Instagram story from scratch can be time-consuming. That’s where Instagram Story templates come in handy. In this roundup, we’re featuring the best Instagram Story…
After you’ve spent dozens (if not hundreds) hours working on your next mobile app, carefully designing every feature and element, it’s important to showcase the quality of your work during your meeting with or presentation for your clients. Normally, app designers opt for screenshots and diagrams. However, for the majority of clients, this is not…
Heck of a year, eh? Like we do every year, I’d like to give you a huge thanks for reading CSS-Tricks, and recap the year. More downs than ups, all told. Here at CSS-Tricks, it was more of a wash. Allow me to me share some numbers, milestones, and thoughts with you about our journey…
Having a professional and competent customer support system helps your website stand out from your competition and grab the attention of your potential customers. But building the best customer support for your website requires the right tools. Thanks to WordPress support plugins you can effortlessly setup a dynamic support system that will offer comprehensive customer…
Creating video is time consuming. A well-made 5-minute video can take hours to plan, record, and edit — and that’s before we start talking about making that video consistent with all the other videos on your site. When we took on the Jamstack Explorers project (a video-driven educational resource for web developers), we wanted to find the right balance…
I redesigned the site! I can never think about the word redesign without also thinking about realigning, from Cameron Moll’s seminal article. I did not start from nothing. This design wasn’t a blank design canvas and empty code editor thing. I doubt any future redesign will be either. I started with what we already had…
It’s a pretty low-effort thing to get a big fancy link preview on social media. Toss a handful of specific <meta> tags on a URL and you get a big image-title-description thing. Here’s Twitter’s version of an article on this site: It’s particularly low-effort on this site, as our Yoast SEO plugin puts the correct…
Selling digital products is more appealing than selling physical products. There is no need to worry about things like warehousing products, shipping orders, and handling returns as everything is managed online. Although it sounds very simple and attractive, selling digital products online comes with its own challenges that you need to address. In this…
In this episode, we’re taking a look back at 2020. Who did we speak to in our episodes this year, and what did we learn? Let’s listen back to some clips to find out. Show Notes You can find all of our past episodes, including a full transcript of every interview at podcast.smashingmagazine.com. See you…