Reading Time: 4 minutesCSS is full of little gotchas and head scratchers. It’s also got a land mine or two that’s all too easy to step on. One of those landmines is the :not() pseudo-class. As useful as it may seem, I’d like to encourage you to not use it, unless you really, really mean to because of

Reading Time: 4 minutesEver been the new person on an old project where you were trying to not make things substantially worse? Maybe you need to position an element, but you don’t know what z-index value is safe to use. You don’t want to layer something to z-index: 9999 if z-index: 10 will suffice… but how do you

Reading Time: 5 minutesWe often spend forever learning the parts of a language, and the application, but we never read enough about how to solve problems when things go wrong. I’d like to spend some time avoiding cool new tricks and fancy features, and instead present a basic process anyone at almost any skill level could follow for

Reading Time: 2 minutesA good long time ago I was on a project where things had gotten off to a rocky start. We’d ended up with a fairly massive stylesheet that, amongst other problems, never set base styles on the “typographical” elements like <h1> or <blockquote>. So my task was to add baseline typographical styles. A subtask of

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe other day I had a fun conversation with a friend and one-time co-worker, Wes Ruvalcaba. We were talking about CSS Grid and the fr unit and how it didn’t quite behave the way (I) expected. Wes and I got to chatting a bit more about our wants and complaints about CSS, and this lead

Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve been working in a particular Tridion implementation for quite some time now. It doesn’t have Site EditExperience Manager set up. So when I find a page, I have to sort out in my own brain what the actual url is. And then I have to type it into a browser and actually go there.

Reading Time: 9 minutesOne of the really cool things to come out of this year’s retreat was a lot of discussion around JavaScript. About 90% of the programming I do is in JavaScript. Not only is it the language where I have the most experience, it’s the language I like the most. It’s quirky and weird at times,

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe W3C recently tweeted the first working draft of the new CSS Fonts module. And I read it. And I’m excited, and I think you should be, too. There’s a lot of cool things that are going to help us solve some a lot of problems, and do a few cool new tricks.

Reading Time: 7 minutesIt’s not that hard to write CSS. The basics of how the language works can be learned in 15 minutes. Most of the major properties and techniques for using them can be learned in a few days.  You can learn how to build static websites within a few weeks —and there’s scores of books and blogs

Reading Time: 4 minutesVersion 59 of Chrome introduced something really cool for Mac developers: a Headless Chrome. It means that now we can run Chrome without using Chrome. How cool is that? In the past we’ve relied on phantom.js or Selenium Webdriver for browser automation and testing. But now, the Chrome team has provided us the ability to