Chris Smith

We can do a lot of logic in CSS.

There's a common design pattern these days where a bit of content is shown over the main screen.

I've been working from home 2 days a week for a few years so thought I'd share a few tips.

A collection of Print CSS problems and tips, learned the hard way...

It's completely normal now for web apps to work with external third party JavaScript APIs.

Just thought I'd pass on a few tips that I've been given for setting a password that won't get hacked.

Having to support a minority of users on IE11 is painful.

I've got a little trick to make the processing of lists appear to go faster than it actually does.

This seems to be a bit of a hot topic on Twitter right now so here's my take.

I was curious as to what value I was getting out of following people in the tech industry on Twitter.

First off, when I say "framework" in this post's title I just mean any big chunk of stuff that you load up and it does stuff for you.

At the start of March 2019 I ran a poll on Twitter to see how devs hide UI elements.

I write a post like this every year and it feels like it gets harder each time.

I think we all know that having a smaller DOM is good for performance but I was never sure what's considered big or small, or at what points performance is affected.

I don't think I'm the first person to think this by any stretch.

I thought it might be useful to share some of my not-so-great experiences as a freelance web designer so that others can learn from my mistakes.

I thought I'd share a way of writing your JavaScript that will make a tree view hierarchy render and respond very quickly.

Do you find yourself writing this kind of thing in your HTML?

Google Analytics is brilliant at tracking things like Page Views for a website.

One of the things I've learned early on in web accessibility is the importance of colour contrast to make things easy to read on screen.

I've been using the excellent Font Awesome for a few years and it's become part of almost every new design that I do.

I've been putting images in web pages for years.

I've been designing web sites and user interfaces for quite a long time now and thought I'd try to pass on what I think it takes to be a good designer.

Lightning Fast Filtering in JavaScript Published 1 Feb 2018 I thought I'd share a technique for filtering large sets of data quickly in a web page.

When I started looking at accessibility and using the aXe accessibility testing tool, one of the first things that it reported was insufficient colour contrast.

A bit late but I still feel it's worth keeping track... 2017 has been different to previous years.

It's become very common for designers to replace the standard native browser controls with their own custom controls.

I work in tech, software development.

I live with my wife and two boys and as you'd expect we have lots of accounts for lots of different services.

I sometimes read things like "A user will abandon a page if it doesn't load within 2 seconds".

I'm trying to work out when it's best to put attributes in the DOM and when it's best to just leave them in JavaScript objects.

When looking at making UX improvements to web apps, I tend to obsess about speed and performance.

Whatever stack of framework you use, everything in web development seems to be going modular.

There are a few ways of using conditionals in JavaScript.

Have you ever been in a situation where your borders aren't rendering as expected?

When working with web apps or more complex sites where the user has to work through a process a product tour can be a very useful addition.

Until fairly recently I didn't like UI frameworks.

I'm sure everyone has seen web apps where the user is given a choice of layouts for their data.

My last post was about Front End Performance Enhancements and how I've managed to improve page load times on a site.

I've recently made a load of changes to a site to improve the page loading times.

When we're using relative sizing in CSS, percentages or ems, how precise do we need to be with our fractions?

Presenting content in two or more languages is pretty much a solved problem.

I hate seeing "click here".

Here's a question on HTML semantics.

I just discovered how easy it can be to reorganise data in JavaScript before trying to use it.

I've been thinking about how we might more accurately determine how many times a blog post is read.

"Hey Siri", "OK Google", "Hey Cortana".

With so much happening so fast knowing what new tech to learn next can be difficult.

Today, 1st Feb, is International box-sizing Awareness Day, apparently.

Everyone has their favourite big web company and associated operating system (OS).