Tools and technologies come and go, but one thing has remained constant for me over the past decade: progressive enhancement.
Progressive enhancement isn’t a technology. It’s more like a way of thinking. Instead of thinking about the specifics of how a finished website might look, progressive enhancement encourages you to think about the fundamental meaning of what the website is providing. So instead of thinking of a website in terms of its ideal state in a modern browser on a nice widescreen device, progressive enhancement allows you to think about the core functionality in a more abstract way.
Der Projektverlauf aus dem Bilderbuch
Im aktuellen Webkrauts Adventskalender gibt es einen schönen Artikel von Nils Pooker zum Thema Projektverlauf. Zwar inhaltlich nicht viel neues (zumindest für mich persönlich), aber dennoch eine sehr schöne Zusammenfassung, wie man heute ein Web-Projekt plant, konzipiert, gestaltet, entwickelt und betreibt.
Website Style Guide Resources
Another nice collection with a lot of resources (Articles Books Examples Style Guides Podcasts Talks Tools) that help you build a website style guide. Also one for the bookmarks!
Performance matters
Performance matters! Nice collection with a lot of resources that help you build lightning fast websites. Definitely one for the bookmarks!
When to use @extend; when to use a mixin
tl;dr;tl;dr
Use @extend for same-for-a-reason; use a mixin for same-just-because.
Shopify: Mobile Now Accounts for 50.3% of All Ecommerce Traffic
26.08.2014 — Looking at data from over 100,000 ecommerce stores that use the Shopify platform, we saw 50.3% of traffic coming from mobile (40.3% from mobile phones, 10% from tablets) and just 49.7% from computers.
The new Apple: relaxed, playful, and trying to kill Google
The next great wave of technological disruption isn’t going to be larger phones or smaller tablets, it’s going to be a universe of sensors embedded in the world around us that connect to apps on our devices and databases in the cloud, and every company in tech is scrambling to own the platform that unlocks and enables this so-called internet of things.
Find out what websites are Built With
Should I use a carousel?
Short answer: No!
Unser Netz soll schöner werden (FAZ)
Weder Regierungen noch Internetunternehmen sind hinreichend vertrauenswürdige Instanzen, um bestimmen zu können, was wir im Netz lesen, sehen, schreiben dürfen. Constanze Kurz, Chaos Computer Club