Chris Smith

Opera Neon is the new concept browser from Opera.

Stack Overflow is both brilliant and terrible.

I started blogging on WordPress back in the summer of 2008.

I don't want to mislead anyone - I don't think the law itself is going anywhere but Britain leaving the EU means that the day when I don't have to worry about it is getting closer.

We all write loads of crap.

This is the third part of a three part blog post on the things I've learned over the last year.

This is the second part of a three-part post about the new things that I picked up through the course of 2016.

I've done this quick run-through of things I've learned in the last 12 months for a few years now.

With front-end developers we all care what our UI design looks like in the browser.

This might seem an odd question as user experience (UX for short) obviously has become a thing in the last few years.

One of my pet hates in UIs is seeing a drop down list (select tag) in a form with only a single option in it.

I've read some sales and marketing articles about techniques for trying to elicit an emotional response from your audience.

I recently got the news at work that as of midnight on 31st December 2016 we no longer officially have to support IE9.

I'm guessing most people know what A/B Testing is.

I recently read this excellent article by Jakob Nielsen: The Distribution of Users' Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think It highlights just how bad most people are with using software and websites and how we should not judge our users by our own standards

Sometimes I see stuff on web pages and wonder how the developers ever thought that was OK… "Please make sure you click on this button only once or you may be charged twice."

I've noticed a bit of a recurring theme in UX work with people asking me whether a page element should be hidden from the user or just disabled.

At the software company where I work, we've started using Codepen as a way of producing interactive demos or prototype pages.

The various types of form inputs can look very different in different browsers.

The Star Wars universe seems to be a bit of a recurring theme for me when experimenting with 3D modelling and animation in Codepen.

Here are a few techniques I use in making web animations in Codepen.

How can we make designs feel more like the natural world and less like something created on a machine?

Poking through other developers' HTML pages I sometimes come across markup like this: <br> <br> <br> It's generally used to just add some space between block elements.

How do you order your CSS properties?

Imagine you're a business owner or marketing bod and you need to get either a new website or you want a redesign of your current, slightly tired looking site.

I'm not sure what proportion of websites include Google Analytics tracking scripts.

I've done quite a lot of work with the Google Maps JavaScript API in the last year or so.

I thought I'd list some of the web development tools I use.

I've just, finally, learned how to use the flexible box layout, more commonly known as Flexbox.

What's the best way of loading more items on screen in terms of user experience and performance - "infinite" scroll, pagination or a simple "load more" option?

One of the areas of front end development I've really got into in the last year or so is performance.

I've worked on a few education sites in Wales and bilingualism is one of the major challenges for any public sector site.

Over the last couple of months of 2015 and the start of 2016 I decided to redesign this site.

I thought I'd share a challenge I'm facing at the moment.

I thought I'd do another quick run-through of what I've picked up this year.

In the last couple of years I've changed the way I work with colours in websites.

A look at why and how I use Codepen for front end development work.

This is an odd one.

Forgotten Your Password?

This is the final part of a three-part article looking back on new things I’ve discovered in 2014.

This is the second part of a three-part article looking back at what new web things I’ve learned in 2014.

I thought I’d take a look back through all the new tech that I’ve learnt in 2014.

At the moment Facebook has 3 ways you can interact with posts: Like, Comment and Share.

After years of working on all sorts of websites I thought I’d create my own personal site.

If you're starting a new site, it's very hard to know how to pick the right web host.

How should you go about selecting the right domain name for your business?

If you've decided you want a website, the next decision to be made is which kind - a simple, static website or a Content Management System (CMS)?

When designing a website an important consideration is its usability and, in particular, the site's visitors being able to understand how to use the site instantly without having to think about it.

Junk email and blog posts are a constant problem.

Twitter keeps hitting the headlines at the moment but a lot of people don't seem to understand what it really is and how it differs from other Social Networks.