Category: Writing

This morning I woke up at 04:50 to make it down to the beach to take a few pictures of the rising swell before the sun came up. It wasn’t as big as I was hoping but here are a few choice shots from the morning.

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. I have some jquery mouseover effects on my website that I need to disable for touch screens,… Continue reading Disable jquery effects for touch screens

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… Continue reading Converting photoshop points to website ems

This is a brilliant article from Harry Roberts. Harry can be found on CSS Wizardry and has built some awesome things including inuit.css It

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. From the google blog… Upon an external style sheet rule modification, the respective resource text is updated in the Resources panel, and the revision history is stored for… Continue reading Saving changes to CSS in Development Tools (chrome & firefox)

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! Queue the “laptop and developer tools”! For around twenty minutes I went through the websites CSS in the chrome developer… Continue reading Responsive Retrofitting: NathalieLussier.com

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. Responsive design has come about… Continue reading Should I charge more for Responsive Design?

Recently I read a tweet 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. I had begun to write up this post 2 years ago after I… Continue reading Tracking Home Page & Product Event Clicks

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). My first foray into email marketing was a disaster! I set up a mail chimp account and proceeded to… Continue reading Managing a Mailchimp email list

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 Which CSS Framework Do You Prefer? A snapshot of the questions posted through Polarb Not sure why though, probably because it was the first responsive Framework that… Continue reading Twitter Bootstrap or Foundation?