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Improving WordPress Code With Modern PHP
www.smashingmagazine.com Feb 22, 2019
Due to backwards compatibility, WordPress hasn’t taken advantage of new PHP features released after PHP 5.2.4. Fortunately, WordPress will soon require PHP 5.6+ and even PHP 7.0+ not long after that. This article makes a tour of the PHP features...
15 Critical Website Fixes to Make Before Launching a Mobile App | Webdesigner Depot
www.webdesignerdepot.com Feb 22, 2019
Your target market has gone mobile. Mobile users spend up to 12% of their time browsing on their device, which works out to 87 hours a month or 1,044 hours a year spent on their phone; 90% of that time is spent using mobile apps. Which is why...
Including Animation In Your Design System
www.smashingmagazine.com Feb 21, 2019
It’s important to understand how animation can be used (or not used) in your design system. In this article, Val Head explains how you can help ensure that your brand is using animation consistently and effectively while also helping your team work...
Get Started With Node: An Introduction To APIs, HTTP And ES6+ JavaScript
www.smashingmagazine.com Feb 20, 2019
An introduction to the backend web application development process — discussing bleeding edge ES6+ JavaScript features, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, working with APIs and JSON, and using Node.js to build fast and scalable backends. You’ve...
Designing for Conversions
alistapart.com Feb 14, 2019
What makes creative successful? Creative work often lives in the land of feeling—we can say we like something, point to how happy the client is, or talk about how delighted users will be, but can’t objectively measure feelings. Measuring the...
An Introduction To WebBluetooth
www.smashingmagazine.com Feb 13, 2019
With Progressive Web Apps, you can now use the web to build full-blown apps. Thanks to an enormous amount of new specifications and features, we can do things with the web that you used to need to write native apps for. However, talking to hardware...
Build a blogging site with Gatsby
www.creativebloq.com Feb 11, 2019
Frameworks like React only send JavaScript down to clients, which is then used to create the elements onscreen. The HTML that loads on the page is minimal, as all of the content is generated on the client side after everything has loaded. In...
A/B Testing For Mobile-First Experiences
www.smashingmagazine.com Feb 11, 2019
In this mobile-first world, there is no such thing as designing a website near-perfectly the first time around. While we know that more experiences with websites begin on mobile, converting those users continues to be problematic. With proper A/B...
New JavaScript Features That Will Change How You Write Regex
www.smashingmagazine.com Feb 8, 2019
If you have ever done any sort of sophisticated text processing and manipulation in JavaScript, you’ll appreciate the new features introduced in ES2018. In this article, we take a good look at how the ninth edition of the standard improves the text...
Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need
alistapart.com Feb 7, 2019
Kip Williams, professor of psychology sciences at Purdue University, conducted a fascinating experiment called “cyberball.” In his experiment, a test subject and two other participants played a computer game of catch. At a predetermined time, the...
10 best new web design tools for February 2019
www.creativebloq.com Feb 7, 2019
The dark months of the year are a good chance to hunker down and build your knowledge before spring brings opportunities that will distract you. To that end, this month’s tools focus heavily on learning resources. If you haven’t got into...
How People Make Decisions
www.smashingmagazine.com Feb 7, 2019
It’s important to understand that all decisions involve emotions. In this article, Susan Weinschenk explains how you can make your users feel confident of their decisions and why it’s a bad idea to provide more than four options to choose from....
How To Architect A Complex Web Table
www.smashingmagazine.com Feb 6, 2019
Tables frequently appear on the web but aren’t easy to design and code. This illustrated guide explains the table anatomy and how to build a table, keeping in mind its future elaboration. Imagine you design a system for data researchers. Or an...
iOS Performance Tricks To Make Your App Feel More Performant
www.smashingmagazine.com Feb 5, 2019
Good performance is critical to delivering a good user experience, and iOS users often have high expectations of their apps. A slow and unresponsive app might make users give up on using your app or, worse, leave a bad rating. Although modern iOS...
A Guide To CSS Support In Browsers
www.smashingmagazine.com Feb 4, 2019
It can be frustrating when you want to use a feature and discover that it is not supported or behaves differently across browsers. In this article, Rachel Andrew details the different types of browser support issues, and shows how CSS is evolving...
Using Vue.js To Create An Interactive Weather Dashboard With APIs
www.smashingmagazine.com Feb 1, 2019
Creating a dashboard with API data is often a complex affair. Choosing your tech stack, integrating APIs, selecting the right charts and beautifying with CSS styles can become tricky. This tutorial is a step-by-step guide on how to help you create...
Adobe Experience Manager vs. WordPress: The Authoring Experience Compared
www.smashingmagazine.com Jan 30, 2019
Block-based editors improve the user experience for those who create and publish content. What could future editors look like? Let’s compare the new authoring experience in WordPress with the experience from AEM. Thanks, WordPress and Gutenberg,...
14 easy ways to make your website more accessible
www.creativebloq.com Jan 29, 2019
It's nothing new to promote the idea that accessibility should be a key consideration at the start of any design project. In reality, tight budgets and timescales can often render the big features needed to make our digital products fully...
Understanding API-Based Platforms: A Guide For Product Managers
www.smashingmagazine.com Jan 29, 2019
API-based solutions are becoming a critical building block of modern digital products. What are they? How can they impact your design process? Finally, how to evaluate them without bothering your software team? To build a digital product today is...
How To Sound Like A Cloud Expert
smashingmagazine.com Jan 28, 2019
Providing scalable and resilient service to a growing customer base across the Internet is very complex. At the end of the day, it’s your job to make good decisions about how to use their services. Your code is written and the design looks great....
Table Design Patterns On The Web
www.smashingmagazine.com Jan 24, 2019
Tables are a design pattern for displaying large amounts of data in rows and columns, and have not yet seemed to fall out of favor, so let’s take a look at how we can create tables on the web in 2019. Tables are a design pattern for displaying...
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