Due to the fact that printer use is not tracked by website analytics software, print tends to be broadly ignored by Web developers. But there’s still something about having a physical sheet of paper in one’s hands, even in this age of digital saturation. By treating print as another aspect of adaptive design, we fulfill the needs of more website users.
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Everyone likes stuff that moves about on the Web, right? Remember how you cried joyful tears when you first used <marquee>? I do. I nearly sobbed all the water out of my body as I gazed upon “JAKE’S COOL WEBSITE” bobbing back and forth in uppercase serif. Of course, we’re more mature as an industry these days.
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Totally taming form elements is impossible due to the lack of detail in the CSS specification and because of the default styles applied by Web browsers. However, Gabriele Romanato shows us that, by following some common practices, reducing (though not eliminating) the differences and achieving good visual results is possible.
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In this article, Maxim Shirshin will introduce us to the history of the BEM methodology. BEM is a collection of ideas and methods. Companies and teams can integrate it into their existing workflow gradually, finding out what works best for them, using a unified language that consists of powerful terms: blocks, elements, modifiers. Learn about the challenges that a big company faces when gradually building an entire ecosystem of services with an ever-growing team of developers.
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In this article, Louis Lazaris will show us how to use white space in development code to ensure that our files are as readable and maintainable as possible. He will offer some advice on how to make our code as performance-friendly as possible. This means concatenating and minifying as many assets as possible, thus serving the smallest possible files and the least number of files.
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Howdy folks! Welcome to another round of Smashing Magazine CSS Q&A — the final one, as of now. One more time, we’ll answer the best questions which you sent us about CSS.
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The buzzword “CSS4” came out of nowhere, just as we were getting used to the fact that CSS3 is here and will stick around for some time. Browser vendors are working hard to implement the latest features, and front-end developers are creating more and more tools to be able to work with the style sheets more effectively.
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Vertical rhythm is clearly an important part of Web design, yet on the subject of baseline, our community seems divided and there is no consensus as to how it fits in — if at all — with our growing and evolving toolkit for designing online.
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Even though we keep JavaScript, CSS and HTML in different files, the concepts behind progressive enhancement are getting all knotted up with every jQuery plugin we use and with every weird technique that crops up. In this post, Tim Wright offers a little perspective as to where we are and how we can realign our goals.
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Coding style is how your code looks and it is an important part of writing code as a professional. Whether you’re writing JavaScript or CSS or any other language, deciding how your code should look is an important part of overall code quality.
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