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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Using Google Maps on Your Website
Online maps generated by satellites are a staple of modern society. The days of printing out a MapQuest page or trying to guess whether you just passed “the third right after the tree” are largely over. But are you properly utilizing this technology? Let’s go over some ways you can use online maps, primarily Google…
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…
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…