October 4, 2021 — One of the use cases for using CSS Grid is to display a gallery of images, but a gallery on its own may not be that exciting. In this article, Silvestar Bistrović will be looking at how to set up a gallery that is expandable as well as accessible with a few tips and tricks along the way. Let’s get started! Read more…

October 1, 2021 — Many websites have some sort of search feature because it helps users navigate through their content easily. Implementing it the right way can be tricky and might not give a good user experience. In this tutorial, Miracle Onyenma will be integrating Algolia, a popular and powerful search service for the best experience on our Nuxt site. Read more…

September 30, 2021 — Get your desktop ready for fall and the upcoming Halloween season with a fresh batch of desktop wallpapers. Created with love by designers and artists from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for October 2021. Read more…

September 29, 2021 — In this article, we’ll highlight how modern image formats (AVIF or WebP) can improve compression by up to 50% and deliver better quality per-byte while still looking visually appealing. We’ll compare what’s possible at high-quality, low-quality and file-size targets. Read more…

September 28, 2021 — You can find Markdown in many places on the Internet. In this article, Eric Bailey covers different aspects of Markdown and how it interacts with other technology. At first, it may seem daunting since there is a lot of content to cover across a few different subject areas, but keep in mind that each tweak and update will have a direct impact on someone’s quality of life when using the web. Read more…

September 27, 2021 — Is end-to-end testing a painful topic for you? End-to-end testing does have some pitfalls that are cause for concern. Let’s look at how to prevent many of them. In this article, Ramona Schwering explains how to handle end-to-end testing with Cypress and make it make it not so tedious and expensive for yourself, but fun instead. hope to show you that end-end testing can be fun! Read more…

September 24, 2021 — Developing with Next.js is amazing, but there are definitely some challenges. The developer experience with Next.js is something you just need to experience. We made the switch from a more traditional integrated e-commerce platform to a headless platform with Next.js. Here are the most important lessons learned while rebuilding a large e-commerce site with Next.js. Read more…

September 24, 2021 — You’ve seen them before. Confusing and frustrating design patterns that seem to be chasing you everywhere you go, from one website to another. It’s time to fix them for good in a free Smashing online workshop next week. Today, Vitaly Friedman will take a look into carousels, modals, infinite scroll, parallax and scrolljacking, mega-dropdown menus, disabled buttons, inline validation, frozen filters, CAPTCHA, authentication and privacy. Read more…

September 23, 2021 — The new CSS accent-color property makes it quick and easy to roll out our brand colors to certain form inputs by leveraging user agent styles. It has the potential to provide quick and easy styling for many of our form elements, especially where extensive customization isn’t needed, as well as allowing the browser to pick the best options for accessibility. In this article Michelle Barker will take a look at what it does and how to use it alongside color-scheme for simple, accessible checkboxes and radio buttons — and imagine how you might use it in the future. Read more…

September 22, 2021 — We love little useful tools and techniques to help folks get their work done better and faster. Today, we’d love to shine the spotlights on a little helper that helps spot common performance bottlenecks easily: ct.css. Read more…