trying to be a mile wide AND a mile deep
We’ve done some simple parallax on a couple of websites recently, using jQuery but no additional JavaScript libraries. It takes some hand-tweaking – and you have to know your items in advance – but is also much lighter weight than a plugin. Here’s how.
Case studies of two simple moves to greatly improve a WordPress site’s PageSpeed Insights score: caching and image compression.
The first of an intended series of interesting CSS gradients inspired by gemstones and other striations.
Two things I’ve learned recently: Don’t use “icons” as a folder name in a website directory if you’re on Apache. Everything inside will 404. Apparently Apache aliases any directory named icons to its own icons directory by default with no .htaccess override allowed. This falls into the “but why did it work on my computer?” […]
The key to Flickity is this: everything it is applied to needs to have accurate size beforehand. Here are some cases where that wasn’t the case and how I fixed them.
Two variations on CSS-Tricks’ Simple Auto-Playing Slideshow (jQuery): one to load slideshow content via AJAX, and one to turn each slideshow item into a question-answer pair.