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CSS is not an overly complex language. But even if you’ve been writing CSS for many years, you probably still come across new things — properties you’ve never used, values you’ve never considered, or specification details you never knew about.
In my research, I come across new little tidbits all the time, so I thought I’d share some of them in this post. Admittedly, not everything in this post will have a ton of immediate practical value, but maybe you can mentally file some of these away for later use.
In my research, I come across new little tidbits all the time, so I thought I’d share some of them in this post. Admittedly, not everything in this post will have a ton of immediate practical value, but maybe you can mentally file some of these away for later use.
Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit!
A list of minimalist frameworks (simple and lightweight). All in alphabetical order.
The term CSS delivery simply means "the way CSS stuff happens on a webpage". CSS can be used many ways by a web page and still work. Since there are many ways to use it, there exist many different CSS setups. Your CSS should help your webpage render fast, not slow down your webpage.
The way CSS is used on a webpage has overwhelmingly been determined by designers, not website owners. So the web designer is making lovely, well commented CSS code and has been placing it in several different files for clarity. They think, with merit, "I have done an amazing wonderful job". This is what they have been taught.
Unfortunately this practise and others ends up killing the performance of web pages.
As this realization gets out there, you will notice that web designers will start making code that helps their users by working as fast as possible, however, for the moment... You probably have CSS that is hurting your website rather than helping it.
The way CSS is used on a webpage has overwhelmingly been determined by designers, not website owners. So the web designer is making lovely, well commented CSS code and has been placing it in several different files for clarity. They think, with merit, "I have done an amazing wonderful job". This is what they have been taught.
Unfortunately this practise and others ends up killing the performance of web pages.
As this realization gets out there, you will notice that web designers will start making code that helps their users by working as fast as possible, however, for the moment... You probably have CSS that is hurting your website rather than helping it.
DevDocs combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface. Here's what you should know before you start:
1-To pick your docs, click Select documentation in the bottom left corner
2-You don't have to use your mouse — see the list of keyboard shortcuts
3-The search supports fuzzy matching (e.g. "bgcp" brings up "background-clip")
4-To search a specific documentation, type its name (or an abbreviation), then Tab
5-You can search using your browser's address bar — learn how
DevDocs works on mobile and can be installed on Chrome and Firefox.
For the latest news, subscribe to the newsletter or follow @DevDocs
DevDocs is free and open source
If you like the app, please consider funding the project on Gittip. Thanks!
Sponsored by MaxCDN
That's all. Happy coding!
1-To pick your docs, click Select documentation in the bottom left corner
2-You don't have to use your mouse — see the list of keyboard shortcuts
3-The search supports fuzzy matching (e.g. "bgcp" brings up "background-clip")
4-To search a specific documentation, type its name (or an abbreviation), then Tab
5-You can search using your browser's address bar — learn how
DevDocs works on mobile and can be installed on Chrome and Firefox.
For the latest news, subscribe to the newsletter or follow @DevDocs
DevDocs is free and open source
If you like the app, please consider funding the project on Gittip. Thanks!
Sponsored by MaxCDN
That's all. Happy coding!
Patterns for the people, by the people
Internet is omnipotent these days but what is more important than website is the web application. Most of the business users as well as a large number of common users are usually on portable or mobile devices and they don’t always have an access to a network. With HTML5’s Application Cache, you can provide them with all or some of the functionality they would have online, no matter where they go. To undertake the process of building a cache with HTML5 for offline access, first of all, requires using a cache manifest file. This is quite simple!
Cmder is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout. Looking sexy from the start.
The Web's Largest Community Tracking Online Fraud & Abuse
Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.
To participate in Project Honey Pot, webmasters need only install the Project Honey Pot software somewhere on their website. We handle the rest — automatically distributing addresses and receiving the mail they generate. As a result, we anticipate installing Project Honey Pot should not increase the traffic or load to your website.
Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.
To participate in Project Honey Pot, webmasters need only install the Project Honey Pot software somewhere on their website. We handle the rest — automatically distributing addresses and receiving the mail they generate. As a result, we anticipate installing Project Honey Pot should not increase the traffic or load to your website.
TinyPNG uses smart lossy compression techniques to reduce the file size of your PNG files. By selectively decreasing the number of colours in the image, fewer bytes are required to store the data. The effect is nearly invisible but it makes a very large difference in file size!
Email anywhere. On any device - How HTML email was meant to be read.
Reach out your tentacles to a broad range of people who subscribe to your emails. Our CSS framework helps you craft HTML emails that can be read anywhere on any device. Gone are the days where you had to choose between Outlook and email optimized for smartphones and tablets. Ink's responsive, 12-column grid blends flexibility and stability so your readers can view your emails perfectly from wherever they may be.
Reach out your tentacles to a broad range of people who subscribe to your emails. Our CSS framework helps you craft HTML emails that can be read anywhere on any device. Gone are the days where you had to choose between Outlook and email optimized for smartphones and tablets. Ink's responsive, 12-column grid blends flexibility and stability so your readers can view your emails perfectly from wherever they may be.
A text encryption tool, based on AES cryptography
How it works:
Mark needs to send personal text to Sarah, and wants that only Sarah can read it.
Mark writes here in Input field the text.
A password is automatically created. Or Mark and Sarah can estabilish a password for every communications over a secure channel (by voice, for example).
Mark can send the encrypted field OR the sharing url field over an insecure channel (for example a chat, mail, Skype, Facebook etc) where Sarah can read it.
Sarah opens the sharing url (or opens this page and pastes the encrypted text), enters the password and can read the original message in the decrypted field.
Note:MyWhisper.net and NOBODY in the network can technically see neither the original text nor the password, and not even the encrypted text if sharing url version isn't used, because all stuffs are only in Mark and Sarah browsers and all encryption/decryption is performed by their browsers with javascript. Therefore HTTPS/SSL access is useless.
How it works:
Mark needs to send personal text to Sarah, and wants that only Sarah can read it.
Mark writes here in Input field the text.
A password is automatically created. Or Mark and Sarah can estabilish a password for every communications over a secure channel (by voice, for example).
Mark can send the encrypted field OR the sharing url field over an insecure channel (for example a chat, mail, Skype, Facebook etc) where Sarah can read it.
Sarah opens the sharing url (or opens this page and pastes the encrypted text), enters the password and can read the original message in the decrypted field.
Note:MyWhisper.net and NOBODY in the network can technically see neither the original text nor the password, and not even the encrypted text if sharing url version isn't used, because all stuffs are only in Mark and Sarah browsers and all encryption/decryption is performed by their browsers with javascript. Therefore HTTPS/SSL access is useless.
One of my favorite security measures here at Perishable Press is the site’s virtual Blackhole trap for bad bots. The concept is simple: include a hidden link to a robots.txt-forbidden directory somewhere on your pages. Bots that ignore or disobey your robots rules will crawl the link and fall into the trap, which then performs a WHOIS Lookup and records the event in the blackhole data file. Once added to the blacklist data file, bad bots immediately are denied access to your site. I call it the “one-strike” rule: bots have one chance to follow the robots.txt protocol, check the site’s robots.txt file, and obey its directives. Failure to comply results in immediate banishment. The best part is that the Blackhole only affects bad bots: normal users never see the hidden link, and good bots obey the robots rules in the first place.
TypeWonder, making the choice of web fonts so enjoyable!
Enter the site url and preview instantly the fonts with-out any hassle !
Enter the site url and preview instantly the fonts with-out any hassle !
We have created an Amazon AMI (Amazon Machine Image) to allow for quick and easy installs of Ghost. This means rather than having a blank Linux image that you then have to install node.js, npm, Ghost, etc. on, it will already be all setup and running once Amazon creates your instance.
This is our very first version of this, so we will be making many upgrades to it in the future (specific www user, better logging, etc) but this should get the job done for now (you can always make those changes yourself if you want). If you would rather install Ghost from scratch instead of using our AMI, check out this article. Now on to the install!
This is our very first version of this, so we will be making many upgrades to it in the future (specific www user, better logging, etc) but this should get the job done for now (you can always make those changes yourself if you want). If you would rather install Ghost from scratch instead of using our AMI, check out this article. Now on to the install!
We have covered a lot of cool CSS3 capabilities – from Color Gradients, Transtions, and Animation. Actually, there are also several properties in CSS2 that is really useful but is less-known, including one we are going to discuss in this post: CSS Counter.
As you may already knew, when we add lists with the <ol> element, the list is numbered automatically. By using CSS Counter, we can even number any element. So, let’s see how it is done.
As you may already knew, when we add lists with the <ol> element, the list is numbered automatically. By using CSS Counter, we can even number any element. So, let’s see how it is done.
PHP Error, error reporting done right!
Better error messages, full syntax highlighting, code snippets, and works for ajax too
Better error messages, full syntax highlighting, code snippets, and works for ajax too
ICEcoder is an open-source browser code editor, which provides a modern approach to building websites. By allowing you to code directly within the web browser, online or offline, it means you only need one program (your browser) to develop sites, plus can test on actual web servers. After development, you can also maintain the website easily, all of which make for speedy and smart development.
Because it can be web based you can use it from any internet enabled computer with a modern browser and because it's open-source, customise it to your liking, integrating with online services. If you'd like to use it as a desktop code editor, no problems, you only need PHP 5.0+ (though 5.3+ is recommeded), so you can use on Linux and on PC via MAMP or XAMPP and Mac via WAMP (or another PHP installation).
ICEcoder was created because web devs (like myself) always complained their code editor didn't do exactly what they like. They're often bloated with features, slow and awkward. Conversely, ICEcoder is lightweight (under 1.2mb including all plugins) and boots in seconds (often 1-2s). Oh, and it's also free (and always will be!). Enjoy!
Because it can be web based you can use it from any internet enabled computer with a modern browser and because it's open-source, customise it to your liking, integrating with online services. If you'd like to use it as a desktop code editor, no problems, you only need PHP 5.0+ (though 5.3+ is recommeded), so you can use on Linux and on PC via MAMP or XAMPP and Mac via WAMP (or another PHP installation).
ICEcoder was created because web devs (like myself) always complained their code editor didn't do exactly what they like. They're often bloated with features, slow and awkward. Conversely, ICEcoder is lightweight (under 1.2mb including all plugins) and boots in seconds (often 1-2s). Oh, and it's also free (and always will be!). Enjoy!
HTML is super easy to write, but when creating webpages you often need to do the same repetitive tasks, such as creating forms. In this article, I have compiled 10+ ready-to-use HTML snippets to fasten your front-end coding.
A simple li'l plugin that lets you make site content easily tweetable.
Inspired (and by inspired I mean I stole this) from a recent New York Times article doing the exact same thing.
Inspired (and by inspired I mean I stole this) from a recent New York Times article doing the exact same thing.