Archive for the Webdev category

Frameless Grid, a clever addition to the growing set of tools available for creating adaptive/responsive websites: http://t.co/N8WgPZKV

Often you want to progressively enhance your mobile-first websites, making them responsive, but that obviously requires a fallback plan for legacy IE browsers that don’t support CSS3 Media Queries. You also want to manage the deployment process and follow the DRY principle as much as you can. You could of course use a polyfill but that means introducing a JavaScript dependancy for layout which might not be what you want. Luckily, there are other solutions.

Over the last year or so, I’ve been thinking more and more about how frontend web development processes should be structured in small and large teams. Web projects often have tight deadlines so it’s important to have a structured approach to writing reusable code and testing modular code snippets in an optimized build environment, before deploying code to a testing or staging server.

Great summary of the techniques for #responsive images, by Jason Grigsby: http://t.co/WcxgNCPy. Be sure to read the comments too.

I’ve created a new fluid, responsive, mobile first/one web skin for akikoo.org (I’m hesitating to call it a design). Anyway, here it is.