Using Modernizr with Flexbox
Last week, Modernizr was updated to version 3, and with that upgrade gained some useful new tests for flexbox support. You now get four separate flexbox tests, producing eight different classes on your...
View ArticleWe need more moms in web design and development
Last year in one of my conference talks, I mentioned that I have kids. After my talk, a woman came up to me and asked me how I do it. How I have a full-time job and do conferences and write and be a...
View ArticleEnhancing Responsiveness with Flexbox presentation at RWD Summit
My latest talk is called “Enhancing Responsiveness With Flexbox.” I talked about how to actually put flexbox to use in the real world—today. I demonstrated a bunch of practical ideas for how to use...
View ArticleFull-width pinned layouts with flexbox
One good way to learn a new technology is to take something made with the existing methods and try to recreate it with the new thing. Take flexbox, for example. Philip Walton showed us with his “Solved...
View Article#663399Becca
I didn’t know Becca. I didn’t even know Eric, not really. He was a huge part of my learning CSS and switching to CSS layout around 2003 or 2004, and I worked with him as a moderator of his css-discuss...
View ArticleLeveling Up With Flexbox presentation at Smashing Conference
Today I spoke at Smashing Conference in Oxford, England, on “Leveling Up With Flexbox.” The talk was based off my earlier flexbox presentation, but I focused less on the basic syntax, since I think...
View ArticleHelp me declutter before I move overseas
I’m excited to announce that I’m about to start a new position as a UX designer for Booking.com. To do so, I’m moving from the US to Amsterdam in the Netherlands! For the past several weeks, my husband...
View ArticlePutting Flexbox into Practice presentation at Blend Conference
Yesterday I spoke at Blend Conference in Charlotte on Putting Flexbox into Practice. You’ve probably heard about flexbox (the CSS Flexible Box Layout module), since it’s the most fully developed and...
View ArticleBookmarklets for accessibility testing
I recently took an introductory JavaScript and jQuery class so I could learn how to write scripts from scratch instead of just blindly using and occasionally fiddling with other people’s scripts and...
View ArticleCSS3 transitions and z-index
This is just a reminder that you can apply transitions to an element’s z-index (aka, where it lays in the stack), but only by stepping through the layers. The browser has to keep z-index in whole...
View ArticleFlexbox syntax for IE 10
Yesterday in my presentation on CSS3 Layout I talked about the different syntaxes that the Flexible Box Layout module (Flexbox) has gone through on its journey to candidate recommendation. As I said in...
View ArticleCSS3 Layout presentation at In Control Orlando
Today I spoke at In Control in Orlando on CSS3 Layout. For a decade we’ve been using floats for creating CSS layouts, and while they’re still the best choice for creating most multi-column designs,...
View ArticlePeople with disabilities use mobile devices, too
I think we web designers know by now that lots of people are going to be using the sites we create on mobile devices. But not everyone knows that lots of these people have a disability. That’s why I...
View ArticleA redesign is coming
Last April 2, I got called to jury duty for the first time in my life. (Smart of them not to call us in on April 1, don’t you think?) I thought I would be done in a day, but ended up on the jury for a...
View ArticleBuilding Responsive Layouts presentation at CSS Dev Conf
Today I spoke at CSS Dev Conference on Building Responsive Layouts. (Yes, I’m in Hawaii. Don’t hate me.) It’s an updated version of the talk I gave at Responsive Web Design Summit. I talked about two...
View ArticleSome updates to stunningcss3.com, and a border-image problem
In my book Stunning CSS3, I linked to tons of resources so my readers could find out more information about the topics I was teaching, see different uses for a given property, and get useful tools to...
View ArticleThe Future of CSS Layout presentation at Future of Web Design conference
Today I spoke at Future of Web Design in New York on The Future of CSS Layout. For a decade we’ve been using floats for creating CSS layouts, and while they’re still the best choice for creating most...
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