Category: Development
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Processing Responsive Images with Hugo
Over the last few months, I’d become embarrassed to share my blog posts, particularly image-heavy posts, as I was handling responsive images so badly. The images were all huge and it was my only big barrier in web performance (no tracking here!). With an archive of blog posts going back nearly a decade, it was going to be a big job to get my whole site working consistently, but I had an inkling I might be able to do it with Hugo’s Image Processing.
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Gallery Grid With CSS Grid
CSS Grid Layout is great. My site layout is fairly simple, so had no need for lots of grid—I only used it for lining up comments and avatars on old blog posts.
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Flexboxing the Universal Video Player
I added a flexbox layout to our Universal Video Player (accessible HTML5 video player) and wrote a blog post on Ind.
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A little realign
Things are looking a bit different around here. It’s not a redesign so much as a realign. I’ve been tinkering for a few months, and finally got to the point where I’m happy to push it live (even though there’s more I could do.
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Guest on A Bit More Backendy podcast
Yesterday the fourth episode of the Backendy podcast was released, and I was the guest. It was lovely talking to Darren, partly because he’s been a great client for a while now, partly because I’ve been working on the podcast logo and site, and also because I think a podcast focusing on back-end development is a really good idea.
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Browser windows and responsive language
In the same way that we continually evolve the processes we use when working with clients, I’ve now found myself evolving and refining the language I use with clients when discussing responsive web design.
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Sass for designers — the talk and the case study
Yesterday I gave a talk at the fantastic online conference CSS Summit on ‘Sass for designers’. It uses my new site Web Talk Dog Walk as a case study, and explains the basics of Sass and how to get started using CodeKit.
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Responsive Day Out
A month ago I spoke at Responsive Day Out, an “affordable, enjoyable gathering of UK designers and developers sharing their workflow strategies, techniques, and experiences with responsive web design.
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Upfront Podcast
I was a guest on the Upfront podcast with the lovely Jack Franklin and Ben Howdle. They got me on to talk about accessibility, but we ended up chatting about the mentoring project too!
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