Category: Writing

Creating your own framework is hard. Building a responsive website is hard. Crafting a website that is as good on mobile as it is on a 50″ television as it is on a PS3 is really hard. Someone posted a question about writing your own framework vs using an existing tool and it got me… Continue reading Do you like, like Frameworks?

As part of my other post about Alexander Headland surf I had to get the images from the camera to the laptop to the server to you. Most of those steps are pretty straight forward, but the path from the laptop to the server can be done better than you might think. I use Amazon… Continue reading Setting Cache with Amazon S3

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