This week’s roundup of all the web design and development articles we’ve found that were published in the past seven days includes new design tools, CSS, JavaScript, React, UX, WordPress, and much more. So grab a cuppa and have a read through the variety of articles to grow your skills and keep up with the latest.
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6 Types of Web Design to Consider for Your Website
Not sure where to start with designing your website? Check out these six types of web design to help you figure out the right design for your business!
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22 Exciting New Tools For Designers, June 2021 | Webdesigner Depot
This month’s new tools and resources collection is a mixed bag of elements for designers and developers. From fun little divots to tools that can speed up development, you are sure to find something usable here. Here’s what new for designers this month: June’s Top Picks Codewell Codewell is a service to help you learn,
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Unlock the Potential of Subscription Confirmation Emails
A subscription confirmation email is a particular type of transactional newsletter. It is sent automatically to users who express a desire to become a part of your subscriber list.
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When CSS Isn’t Enough: JavaScript Requirements For Accessible Components — Smashing Magazine
Spoiler alert: tooltips, modals, tabs, carousels, and dropdown menus are some of the user interface components that require more than CSS. To ensure accessibility of your interface, JavaScript is a necessary addition to accomplish focus management, respond to keyboard events, and toggle ARIA attributes.
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Securing Your Website With Subresource Integrity | CSS-Tricks
When you load a file from an external server, you’re trusting that the content you request is what you expect it to be. Since you don’t manage the server
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How to Create Your Own React Custom Hooks
React offers a couple of built-in hooks. You can also create your React custom hooks. Learn what custom hooks are and how to create them.
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Media Queries in Times of @container
With container queries now on the horizon - will we need media queries at all?
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Scenarios Where WordPress May Not Be the Best Option
We take a look at those scenarios when it may be wiser to steer clear of WordPress – or any CMS, for that matter, and just use static HTML.
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Does the Hamburger Menu Make Mincemeat of UX Design?
Is the hamburger off the menu? Or should UX designers use this icon for navigation? UXPin is about to serve up the best practice.
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Making Tables With Sticky Header and Footers Got a Bit Easier | CSS-Tricks
It wasn't long ago when I looked at sticky headers and footers in HTML <table>s in the blog post A table with both a sticky header and a sticky
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Just How Niche is Headless WordPress? | CSS-Tricks
I wonder where headless WordPress will land. And by "headless" I mean only using the WordPress admin and building out the user-facing site through the
Read More 14 Perfect Wedding Website Color Combinations
A wedding occasion is the most joyous moment of a person’s life. Nowadays, it is referred to as an individual industry that employs many other businesses.
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A Guide to Popular PHP Frameworks for Beginners
This guide to the 8 most popular PHP frameworks will help you decide which one is worth learning and using for web development projects.
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How much coding should designers do?
Designers and developers used to be the complete opposite and had different jobs. Designers were responsible for making plans and designing things.
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How to Avoid SEO Disaster During a Website Redesign
Redesigning or migrating your website is a huge undertaking. Protect your investment with this SEO checklist for website redesigns.
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Detect Unused Classes in... HTML | CSS-Tricks
Usually, when "unused" comes up in conversation regarding CSS, it's about removing chunks of CSS that are not used in your site or, at least, the styles not
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How to Design a Captivating Web Questionnaire
We’ve all run across them – web questionnaires or surveys that were so simple and delightful that they were actually fun to fill out. Sadly, that’s the exception to the rule. More often than, surveys are clunky and cumbersome. You can design a captivating web questionnaire with the r...
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3 Ways to Design More Inclusively | Webdesigner Depot
Inclusive design is often mistaken for accessibility, or even used as an interchangeable term, which is a good indication that most designers don’t know what it means. Accessibility is a process that seeks to mitigate issues in a design that is not sufficiently universal; inclusive design increases the universality of the design. In real-world terms,
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The 6 Levels of UX Maturity
Our UX-maturity model has 6 stages that cover processes, design, research, leadership support, and longevity of UX. Use our quiz to get an idea of your organization’s UX maturity.
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How I Used the WAAPI to Build an Animation Library | CSS-Tricks
The Web Animations API lets us construct animations and control their playback with JavaScript. The API opens the browser’s animation engine to developers and
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A designer’s guide to writing effective copy (& why it matters more than you think)
Believe it or not, copywriting and design go hand in hand. Here's how to write effective copy that serves your clients and helps you create better designs.
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Client-Side Routing In Next.js — Smashing Magazine
Next.js has a file-based routing system in which each page automatically becomes a route based on its file name. This article will guide you through almost everything you need to know about Routing in Next.js and point you in the direction of related topics and concepts.
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Drawing Graphics with the CSS Paint API | Codrops
CSS Paint is an API that allows developers to programatically generate and draw graphics where CSS expects an image. It
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Perfect Tooltips With CSS Clipping and Masking | CSS-Tricks
Clipping and masking have been around for a while now in CSS and even have pretty decent browser support. I recently worked on a project that needed to use a
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Asynchronous Design Critique: Giving Feedback
How do you know that you’re giving good feedback? Erin ‘Folletto’ Casali offers a tangible framework for delivering feedback through the lens of the design critique process in this first installmen…
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