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Top 15 Tools and Platforms for Creating Eye-Catching Websites
There are so many options for you out there if you need to get a website up and running without any coding skills. How do you know which is the one for you? We've singled out 15 tools and platforms that really made an impression on...
uncss: Find Unused CSS
You know what's better than adding features to a website or app, from a code perspective? Removing stuff you don't need. Whether it be code, images, or dependencies, getting rid of the crap stale code is like the first sip of a big glass of wine after...
How to Open a Website from Terminal
Every once in a while I want to open a website from the terminal ... just because. Maybe it's because it makes me feel just a bit more hardcore, you know, not clicking a GUI icon. Anyways, opening a browser via the command line is dead...
Google Analytics Debugging with ga_debug.js
Google Analytics and its API is a beacon of awesomeness and immense stat tracking power, but for the longest time I was using some of its features, like event tracking, and simply taking Google's word for it that things were working correctly. Of course none of...
O’Reilly Velocity Conference: Discount Code and 2 Free Passes!
Alright conference-lovers: I've got something awesome for you. O'Reilly's Velocity Conference 2014 is coming up on June 24th-26th in Santa Clara, CA, USA and if you can go, you probably should. Check out the list of speakers you'll see over those few days: Lara Swanson...
Lazy Load Resources Based on Element Presence
Fans of AMD JavaScript will probably tell you that they love loading only what they need, when they need them. I am one of those people. Let's take a site like mine for example: some pages require a syntax highlighter, some do not. Why make the...
Thoughts on Xbox One
I've never been a massive Microsoft fan but one thing I believe they got massively right was Xbox. I didn't own the first Xbox but I did jump at the Xbox 360 and love it. When I saw that Xbox One was coming out, I bought...
Command + Enter to Submit Forms
I've used Mac's for about six years now but it wasn't until I started using Tweetdeck that I realized how awesome the
[COMMAND]+[ENTER]
key combination was. Inside a textarea? No problem --[COMMAND]+[ENTER]
and the form is submitted. What if all forms could be that way? They...Get the Focused Element with JavaScript
Ensuring that a website or web app is both accessible and usable, as well as functional, is paramount to a positive user experience for all users. Users don't appreciate when we've done a good job, but they definitely know when we've done poorly. One important part...
CSS Vertical Text
Almost every HTML element we create is thought of in the frame of horizontal. We pay much more attention to widths than we do heights, especially when it comes to text within them. Sometimes we do, however, want to display element text in a vertical fashion.