How To: A CSS-Only Mobile Off Canvas Navigation
Mobile navigation and the "hamburger nav" pattern aren't going away. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through creating a mobile off-canvas navigation with only CSS and HTML.
How To: Use CSS Grid Layout to Make a Simple, Fluid Card Grid
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to take one of the most common tropes of web design -- the card grid -- and make it fluid.
Make a More Flexible Cover Screen with CSS Grid
Our design trends are about to get a facelift. Grid Layout is coming in the next release of modern browsers. It's important to get a grip on its utility. Let's take a common trend in editorial and marketing design - the "cover page" banner area.
Falling Forward — Rethinking Progressive Enhancement, Graceful Degradation and Developer Morality
Forget what you know about Graceful Degradation. Forget what you know about Developer Convenience. Forget what you know about Progressive Enhancement. Instead of arguing over these terms, we should focus on how to change our culture. Create "fallforwards" not "fallbacks."
Start Exploring the Magic of CSS Grid Layout
Grid is an amazing new CSS Specification coming to major browsers in 2017. When it’s ready for use in production, it’s going to drastically change the way we do layout on the web. Currently, there’s no real browser support. Edge and IE10/11 "support" grid, but they implemented an early version of the specification and it’s significantly broken.
Feature Queries are on the Rise
Since the Web became a more beautiful place with the advent of CSS, there’s always been a struggle in the use of more modern features of CSS with browsers who are either slower to adopt or more cautious in the way the implement features. There have been many potential solutions for this issue.
CSS Shapes — Let the Text Flow Around You
There’s magic in the air around CSS right now. There’s so much new to be excited about. One simple thing that you should get excited about is the CSS Shapes Module. These are not CSS shapes like building triangles out of border property hacks. This is taking your content and shaping it around shapes and images.
Flexbox -- Let's start simple
Layout in CSS is hard. We’ve spent the 2 decades since the inception of CSS battling with its idea of how to lay out content on the web. When we moved from table-based layouts to CSS layouts with floats and positioning, we gained a LOT of flexibility, but we also lost things like vertical centering that tables afforded us. Floats and positioning got us a long way to making really nice looking sites, but with the advent of responsive design and fluid layouts, the struggle has been real...