To be able to modify headers in a testing environment is a great thing to have, and a very powerful tool. It allows control over your application as one can bypass authentication, set cookies, and so on. In this article, Nafees Nehar explores some methods which allow modification of headers in an automation testing setup.
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One of Jhey’s main mantras is to make learning fun. In this article, he shows you ways to level up your skills by bringing your ideas to life, and not forgetting that you can be playful with code. With that mindset, every idea is bound to become an opportunity to try something new. It’s fun to make things that we may not create on a day-to-day basis. Demos like this can pose different challenges and can level up your problem-solving game!
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The separation of content and presentation that CSS gives us always comes in handy when we need to adapt designs to better serve different communities. With a little CSS, we can adapt our web designs to be more accommodating for people with dyslexia. In this article, John C Barstow will explore those techniques by adding a dyslexia-friendly mode to an existing design.
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Did you know that your chosen color palette can have an impact on how much energy your website uses? Even a more environmentally friendly choice of colors can reduce the impact on the battery life of mobile devices. In this article, Michelle Barker shares advice on the not-so-obvious things you have to keep in mind when handling colors in CSS today.
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What’s your favorite command-line tool? In this post, Louis Lazaris shares a collection of relevant command-line apps and utilities that he has personally come across in the past few years. If there’s a useful one that hasn’t been mentioned and one you use regularly, please do share it in the comments.
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Dribbbleshots just might be the hotbed of questionable dashboards. Striking visuals, little context, and no research: all recipes for mediocrity. Mediocrity won’t do. We’ll pursue greatness. And in that pursuit, we’ll cover research, decluttering, and data visualization. In this article, Adam Fard will talk about research, decluttering, and data visualization, as well as how these things can make your dashboard design better.
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If we use a width and height that isn’t proportional to the image’s aspect ratio, the image might either be compressed or stretched. That isn’t good, and it can be solved either with object-fit for an img element or by using background-size. In this article, Ahmad Shadeed will go through how object-fit and background-size work, when you can use them, and why, along with some practical use cases and recommendations. Let’s dive in.
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Creating an interactive experience with fiction can be a chore with traditional content management tools. Let’s make it the domain of just one content creator in which the user will fill out a form before reading the story. In this article, Bryan Robinson will be building an interactive fiction experience in which a user can insert words that match parts of speech given by the content creator. Let’s go!
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Debugging in CSS means figuring out what might be the problem when you have unexpected layout results. Today, Stephanie Eckles will look at a few categories bugs often fit into, see how you can evaluate the situation, and explore techniques that help prevent these bugs.
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Front-end development is exciting and fast-moving. With newer CSS properties, we can brush the dust off our old techniques and give them another look. For years, pseudo-elements have faithfully helped front-end developers implement creative designs. While they still have an important place, we can now leave pseudo-elements behind in some scenarios, thanks to newer CSS properties.
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