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Getting to grips with CSS Grids
Oct 6, 2018
🕑7 min read
Grids are the latest layout model to join the CSS spec after flex. Like flex, grids open up a whole new world of layout possibilities that will make every web developer's life a whole lot easier. Unlike flex, grids allow you to use more than one dimension ...
Create a basic ReactJS app with no config
Apr 11, 2017
🕑11 min read
There are many ways that a ReactJs app can be created. The aim of this guide is to get up and running with a basic react app as quickly as possible.
That means no other fancy libraries such as Redux, Router, Relay or anything else beginning with R (seems ...
Hide number input spinners using CSS
Jul 18, 2016
HTML 5 number pickers are great, since they help restrict users to the input ranges required in certain cases. Some browsers add little up and down arrows to help the user step though numbers.
On some browsers the pickers show by default even when the for...
Running a simple server while developing locally
Jul 12, 2016
🕑2 min read
When you’re building a website one of the most important steps is the building of the templates. Building static templates is almost always quicker than building integrated templates such as WordPress, Django or Rails.
One of the biggest issues with using...
Javascript best practices
Jul 10, 2016
🕑4 min read
Where to put the javascript?
Unless it’s essential for it to be in the head of the HTML document, place all javascript just before the closing body tag of a page.
What’s essential for the head?
That can vary from project to project but a rule of thumb w...
A Project code guideline
Jun 14, 2016
🕑8 min read
This is my documentation for a new project. I’m writing it here rather than inside a repository so that it can exist across multiple projects. This will eventually be duplicated on to a markdown document for posterity!
Project structure
As the project is...
Lessons learnt from my first iOS Game
Feb 19, 2016
🕑6 min read
A few weeks ago I decided to make an iOS game. I’ve toyed with the idea for a long time, and tried a few times, but never actually made something that was fun enough and worked properly — consequently, I’ve never actually made a game from start to finish. ...
Start using Git
Feb 9, 2016
🕑9 min read
Turning any project in to a Version controlled project is really simple and should be one of the first steps in any project workflow. By the time you realise that you need a version controlled file, it’s usually too late – whether you have accidentally ove...
CSS best practices
Dec 16, 2015
🕑5 min read
There are a few ways of writing css. For consistency, we will adopt only one naming convention. This is lowercase and hyphen separated. It is the most readable and fits well with other CSS methodologies that are covered below.
Yes
No
Specificity
Keep y...
WordPress localhost redirects to live site
May 2, 2015
🕑1 min read
When you are developing on WordPress sites it's always quicker to work on a local machine/development server. It's essential to work from the same data as the live site so you can work effectively as possible so taking a copy of the live database and insta...