To do our jobs well as web developers, designers, and UX/UI experts, we are constantly thinking about the user. After all, they are the ones who will be interacting with the site, placing orders, consuming content, submitting information, and more. All of those tasks must be efficient, easy to understand, and appealing. When building a…
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Power-up Your Web Design with CSS Variables
When CSS was first introduced in 1996, it allowed web designers to make changes by updating a single stylesheet instead of hundreds of web pages. As the popularity of CSS grew, so did its functionality. Today, one website can have hundreds or even thousands of values stored in stylesheets. However, when a designer wants to…
Google’s Passage Ranking Launched in February: Here’s What That Means
Quietly announced via the Google Search Liaison Twitter account, Google’s passage ranking launched in the US on February 11th, 2021. This isn’t a ranking factor that will drastically impact your traffic, but it certainly pertains to SEO and is something to be informed about. Below, we’ll go over what passage ranking is and what you…
Using Chrome’s Coverage Tool to Optimize Your CSS
Websites are ever-evolving products. They are updated for speed, security, accessibility, and new features. The thought experiment about the Ship of Theseus comes to mind when thinking about the lifetime of a website. If you replace boards on a wooden ship as they rot, every board will eventually get replaced. At that point, is it…