Online maps generated by satellites are a staple of modern society. The days of printing out a MapQuest page or trying to guess whether you just passed “the third right after the tree” are largely over. But are you properly utilizing this technology? Let’s go over some ways you can use online maps, primarily Google…
Category: Web Development
Power-up Your Web Design with CSS Variables
When CSS was first introduced in 1996, it allowed web designers to make changes by updating a single stylesheet instead of hundreds of web pages. As the popularity of CSS grew, so did its functionality. Today, one website can have hundreds or even thousands of values stored in stylesheets. However, when a designer wants to…
Using Chrome’s Coverage Tool to Optimize Your CSS
Websites are ever-evolving products. They are updated for speed, security, accessibility, and new features. The thought experiment about the Ship of Theseus comes to mind when thinking about the lifetime of a website. If you replace boards on a wooden ship as they rot, every board will eventually get replaced. At that point, is it…
Form UX Best Practices
Web forms provide a critical pathway between your business objectives and your customers. There are many different types of forms, but the objective is the same — to get the user to convert — to make the form engaging, enticing, and easy to fill out and submit, whether it’s for an eCommerce order, a newsletter…