Web Standards: The What, The Why, And The How — Smashing Magazine
Web Standards, and the documentation to support them, provide huge insight into ‘the why’ and ‘the what’ of the world wide web. In this article, we take a look at the history of Web Standards, how to use them in your work and ways you can get involved in making them.
The performance cost of custom web fonts, and how to solve it
Custom web fonts are an essential part of most web design, but they come at a performance cost. This post looks at addressing the causes and the symptoms.
Learn about the three principles that are the foundation of the circular economy concept and some of the benefits of shifting away from the current, linear, economy.
What if you could redesign everything? The Circular Design Guide is a collaboration between IDEO and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. It's an action-oriented set of methods, mindsets and thought starters to help innovators design circular solutions that are fit for the future.
Promising to make you look wired and magically promote your content in social networks, the Like, Retweet, and +1 buttons occupy a good spot on pretty much every page of the World Wide Web. Because of this, almost every major site and brand is providing free advertising for Twitter and Facebook. But do these buttons work?
Creating a Mobile-First Responsive Web Design - HTML5 Rocks
Responsive web design gives web creators some tools for making layouts that respond to any screen size. This article uses fluid grids, flexible images and media queries to get the layout looking great regardless of the size of the device's screen dimensions.
In this excerpt from World Wide Waste, Gerry McGovern examines the environmental impact of bloated websites and unnecessary assets. Digital is physical. It seems cheap and free, but it’s not—…