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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...

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We 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...

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Enhancing 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...

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Full-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...

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#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...

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Leveling 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...

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Help 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...

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Putting 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...

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Bookmarklets 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...

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CSS3 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...

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Flexbox 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...

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CSS3 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,...

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People 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...

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A 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...

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Building 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...

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Some 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...

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The 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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