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Working with large web apps often involves creating and parsing spreadsheets. Learn how to handle and parse these files using Python.

Should you use Canvas or SVG? It depends! Let's walk through all the scenarios where Canvas and SVG are an option and work out which is the best choice.

Adrian Sandu explains the purpose and advantages of rem units, demonstrating ways to use em and rem units in CSS layouts.

Ashraff Hathibelagal explains how to use Bootstrap and Tumblr’s special operators to create a Tumblr theme you can use for your Tumblr blog.

George customizes Bootstrap's carousel component, converting it to a full-screen Bootstrap Carousel slideshow and randomizing the first slide on page load.

Maria Antonietta Perna uses some jQuery and the Animate.css animations library to add some extra subtle visuals to the slides in the Bootstrap carousel.

Maria Antonietta Perna discovered a problem when combining Bootstrap tabs with Masonry. She describes a solution to the issue in this post.

Maria walks through some of the new features in Bootstrap 4, including its modular architecture, reusable components and easier scaling across screen sizes.

Ivaylo Gerchev looks at the pros and cons of choosing between, prebuilt, front-end frameworks versus using a custom solution.

Giulio Mainardi explains the new font-display property and how it will help CSS developers improve rendering of fonts during page load.

Ashley Nolan introduces the features of stylelint, a flexible and well-supported CSS linting tool that can improve your team's code style and maintenance.

Giulio Mainardi shows you how to build a Trello layout using CSS's new Grid Layout Module features and Flexbox, along with some Sass for efficiency.

Asha Laxmi introduces and explains what CSS inheritance is, how it helps development, and what pitfalls to avoid while using it.

Adrian Sandu shares some myths and facts about HTML replaced elements and how browsers treat them according to the specifications.

Giulio Mainardi shows you how to build a 3D rotating carousel using CSS 3D transforms, with some nifty math tricks and some JavaScript to enhance.

Kalpesh Singh uses Flexbox features to build a mega drop-down navigation menu, a well known design feature that many incorporate into large websites.

Adrian Roworth recently built a pure CSS crossword puzzle using form elements and new Grid Layout features. In this tutorial, he explains the key concepts.

Louis Lazaris breaks down the results of the Ultimate CSS Survey, shedding light on developer practices in CSS tooling, technologies, and knowledge.

Louis Lazaris has collected together another 20+ learning resources, tools, and other guides to help developers brush up on various front-end features.

SitePoint's 2nd annual CSS Survey to give us a better idea of the knowledge, experience, habits, and practices of CSS developers from around the world.

Zack Wallace goes through how to set up Vagrant, the popular virtual machine software, on a Windows machine.

Louis Lazaris has another installment of our docs and guides series. This post includes learning resources for JavaScript, Angular, CSS, and lots more.

Asha Laxmi explains and demonstrates how to use two CSS properties that can help when creating responsive layouts – object-fit and object-position.

Louis Lazaris presents another collection of websites, GitHub docs, and other learning resources for front-end developers.

There seems to be some confusion in the industry over what constitutes a "CSS hack". Louis Lazaris explains what are hacks and how they're used in CSS.

Hugo has been working on creating a simple and automated workflow for dealing with creating accessible icons using SVG. He shares it in this post.

PostCSS and Gulp have both become popular front-end tools. Nitish takes a look at how you can use both tools together as part of your automated workflow.

George shows you how to use jQuery and CSS keyframe animations to build an animated list filtering component.

The results of The Ultimate CSS Survey are in! Nearly 7,000 entries have given us a better idea of the habits and knowledge of CSS devs in the industry.

Maria gives a nice overview of the features of Google's Material Design Lite framework and how you can use it in one of your new projects.