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01/21/2025   CSS Tricks
Creating a “Starred” Feed

Chris wrote about “Likes” pages a long while back. The idea is rather simple: “Like” an item in your RSS reader and display it in a feed of other liked items. The little example Chris made is still really good.…

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01/21/2025   Smashing Magazine
Navigating The Challenges Of Modern Open-Source Authoring: Lessons Learned
Alvaro Saburido delves into the current state and challenges of Open-Source authoring, sharing lessons learned from both community- and company-driven initiatives.
01/17/2025   CSS Tricks
Fancy Menu Navigation Using Anchor Positioning

Anchor positioning can be great for little interactive effects — as Temani Afif shows off with this clever idea for a menu hover.

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01/17/2025   Smashing Magazine
An Ode To Side Project Time
A once-revered perk of some tech workplaces, the status of ‘side project time’ seems to have slipped in recent years. Frederick O’Brien believes it deserves a comeback.
01/16/2025   Smashing Magazine
On-Device AI: Building Smarter, Faster, And Private Applications
Shouldn’t there be a way to keep your apps or project data private and improve performance by reducing server latency? This is what on-device AI is designed to solve. It handles AI processing locally, right on your device, without connecting to the internet and sending data to the cloud. In this article, Joas Pambou explains what on-device AI is, why it’s important, the tools to build this type of technology, and how it can change the way we use technology every day.
01/15/2025   CSS Tricks
Web-Slinger.css: Across the Swiper-Verse

Lee Meyer with a super clever idea using scroll-driven animations as an interaction to "like" or "dislike" something.

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01/15/2025   WebAppers
10 Best WordPress Plugins for Your 2025 Website Projects

Even those feature-rich WordPress themes that offer virtually unlimited flexibility can’t necessarily handle every possible demand a designer or developer may throw at them, leaving the website builder with the choice of relying on coding to resolve the issue or seek another solution.  That other solution often takes the form of a WordPress plugin. Plugins […]

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01/14/2025   CSS Tricks
A Few Ways That Cloudways Makes Running This Site a Little Easier

(This is a sponsored post.)

It’s probably no surprise to you that CSS-Tricks is (proudly) hosted on Cloudways, DigitalOcean’s managed hosting arm. Given both CSS-Tricks and Cloudways are part of DigitalOcean, it was just a matter of time …

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01/14/2025   Smashing Magazine
The Role Of Illustration Style In Visual Storytelling
How do we determine the most suitable illustration style? How should illustrations complement and reflect your corporate identity? What will resonate most with your target audience? And regarding the content, what type of illustration would best enhance it, and how would it work for the age range it is primarily for? Thomas Bohm shares insightful examples and discusses the key qualities of effective illustrations, emphasizing the importance of understanding your audience.
01/13/2025   CSS Tricks
How to Wait for the sibling-count() and sibling-index() Functions

Today, I want to look into one of those cases of impatient and how the community has waited for that feature, to be specific, two upcoming functions: sibling-count() and sibling-index().

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01/10/2025   Smashing Magazine
Solo Development: Learning To Let Go Of Perfection
The best and worst thing about solo development is the “solo” part. There’s a lot of freedom in working alone, and that freedom can be inspiring, but it can also become a debilitating hindrance to productivity and progress. Victor Ayomipo shares his personal lessons on what it takes to navigate solo development and build the “right” app.
01/09/2025   CSS Tricks
Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results

I wrote a post for Smashing Magazine that was published today about this thing that Chrome and Safari have called “Tight Mode” and how it impacts page performance. I’d never heard the term until DebugBear’s Matt Zeunert mentioned it in …

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01/09/2025   Smashing Magazine
Tight Mode: Why Browsers Produce Different Performance Results
We know that browsers do all sorts of different things under the hood. One of those things is the way they not only *fetch* resources like images and scripts from the server but how they [prioritize those resources](https://www.debugbear.com/blog/request-priorities?utm_campaign=sm-7). Chrome and Safari have implemented a “Tight Mode” that constrains which resources are loaded and in what order, but they each take drastically different approaches to it. With so little information about Tight Mode available, this article attempts a high-level explanation of what it is, what triggers it, and how it is treated differently in major browsers.
01/08/2025   WebAppers
Best WordPress Themes To Try Out in 2025

When you select a WordPress theme, you will naturally familiarize yourself with the design tools, aids, and other features the theme has to offer. The greater the number of features, it the more a theme should be able to do for you. “More” sometimes means “better” but you still have to ask if “better” will […]

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01/08/2025   Smashing Magazine
Lesser Known Uses Of Better Known Attributes
HTML attributes are like little instructions that we add to the markup of elements to make them do certain things or behave in certain ways. For example, most of us know that the `target` attribute with a value of `_blank` opens the link in a new tab or window. But did you know that you can use it on the `form` element, too? John Rhea presents several lesser-known uses for common HTML attributes.
01/07/2025   Smashing Magazine
How To Design For High-Traffic Events And Prevent Your Website From Crashing
Product drops and sales are a great way to increase revenue, but these events can result in traffic spikes that affect a site’s availability and performance. To prevent website crashes, you’ll have to make sure that the sites you design can handle large numbers of server requests at once. Let’s discuss how!
01/06/2025   CSS Tricks
The Importance of Investing in Soft Skills in the Age of AI

I am still an AI skeptic. The biggest risk I foresee is that if your sole responsibility is to write code, your job is at risk. It’s not time to panic, but I do see a lot of value in evolving your soft skills.

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01/06/2025   Smashing Magazine
What Does AI Really Mean?
We, as human beings, don’t worry too much about making sure the connections land at the right point. Our brain just works that way, declaratively. However, for building AI, we need to be more explicit. Let’s dive in!
12/31/2024   Smashing Magazine
New Front-End Features For Designers In 2025
Searching for the most flexible front-end workflows and toolkits, it’s easy to forget how powerful some of the fundamentals on the web have become these days. This post is a journey through new front-end features and what they are capable of.
12/31/2024   Smashing Magazine
New Year, New Hopes, New Dreams (January 2025 Wallpapers Edition)
Maybe 2025 has already started as you’re reading this, maybe you’re still waiting for the big countdown to begin — either way, it’s never too late or too early for some New Year’s inspiration! Our new collection of desktop wallpapers has got you covered.
12/30/2024   CSS Tricks
Thank You (2024 Edition)

I'm more thankful this time around because, last year, I didn't even get to write this post. But now that I'm back, writing this feels so, so, so good. There's a lot more gusto going into my writing when I say: thank you so very much! Let's tie a bow on this year and round up what happened around here in 2024.

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12/23/2024   CSS Tricks
A CSS Wishlist for 2025

2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor positioning, animate to height: auto, and many others. It seems out of touch to ask, but what else do we …

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12/23/2024   Smashing Magazine
The Design Leader Dilemma
Design leaders are expected to deliver the impossible. Instead of trying, we need to redefine our role from implementor to enabler.