05 Feb 2013
There was a recent question of Stack Overflow looking to disable mouse hover events in jQuery on touch devices. My first thought was why disable them on touch when you could just enable them when touch wasn't available.
30 Jan 2013
When you first get a comp from the designer it is best to get the base typography set in your style sheet before you move onto creating the CSS for the rest of the site. The problem is that photoshop measures type in pt's, and we build in Ems (never pixels). How do we make the transition?
23 Jan 2013
This is a brilliant article from Harry Roberts. Harry can be found on CSS Wizardry and has built some awesome things including inuit.css
22 Jan 2013
A little known fact is that you can save the CSS changes you make in your development tools. I wish I knew this a few years ago.
22 Jan 2013
Natalie Lussier's site is clean and vibrant on a desktop, but I found it a little difficult to sign up for some email marketing tips while I browsed the site on my smartphone. Retrofitting time!
20 Jan 2013
There is a lot of debate around whether we should be charging extra for building sites responsively, or whether it has become a standard and should be included as part of your current pricing structure. After reading a few posts on CSS-Tricks Forums I decided to reply with my thoughts.
19 Jan 2013
Recently I read a post by Chris Coyier rejoicing in the ease at which you can set up Google Analytic Events on your website and it reminded me about a post I had drafted but never published around setting Goals & Events.
18 Jan 2013
Despite what people have said in the past, emails are still very popular was to communicate with your audience (even if your audience are technical savvy blog readers and RSS subscribers like web developers and designers).
18 Jan 2013
A question came up on linkedin the other day and it is one which I've seen come up quite a few times on Twitter and in Stack Overflow
21 Jun 2012
XKCD have come up with another awesome comic reviewing the planets that we have identified.
If you take a look at the planets in our solar system you'll notice that we have two medium/smallish planets. That's Jupiter and Saturn. They're freaking massing.