Tag: LouisL

Luis Vieira discusses how to use local storage, part of the HTML5 Web Storage API, to improve the performance of a website.

Ryan Morr discusses the basics of CSS grids and shows us the CSS concepts and math that goes behind such a system and why it's useful for HTML scaffolding.

Byron Houwens shows off some of the features of the WebGL spec by building a rotatable model Earth with three.js and some custom scripting.

You've probably created CSS3 animations. But have you used the animation-fill-mode property and all its possible values? Louis takes a look, with visuals.

Pankaj Parashar builds on knowledge from his previous articles to show us how to build a credit card payment form using custom elements and Polymer.

Have you ever noticed the dynamic, fixed navigation on Bootstrap's documentation pages? George explains how to use the two plugins to make that work.

Dan Rose uses mostly CSS to recreate the experience of browsing images on the Google Images search page.

Jérémy Heleine introduces the jQuery plugin Blast.js, and how it can be used to animate individual characters, words, and sentences in blocks of text.

You might not be familiar with Heroku's robust deployment workflow. Dennis Gaebel shows us how to use Gulp, Git, and Node to deploy a project to Heroku.

Spartan is Microsoft's attempt to break free from Internet Explorer's tainted legacy. Craig discusses how it could help Microsoft, users and web developers.

Vikas Lalwani introduces CSS filters and then shows us how to build a rudimentary image editor with filters and some help from jQuery.

George looks at a simple, responsive solution to solve your framework needs: Skeleton, a CSS boilerplate with limited features.

In this Learnable screencast, Kauress uses HTML's video element and the Bootstrap framework to create a responsive video-header like the one on Airbnb.

Vinay Raghu talks about the difference between UI kits and CSS frameworks and how frameworks should be chosen if your development is component-based.

Armando Roggio takes a look at three cool features of HTML5 video that you may not have used before.

Patrick contacted a number of developers who have used BEM and SMACSS in their projects, and collected their thoughts on how they can be used effectively.

George Martsoukos compares the grid systems of the two most popular CSS frameworks: Bootstrap and Foundation.

Amit Diwan looks at what makes a performance testing tool effective and considers 7 options you'll want to look at.

Louis Lazaris takes a look at HTML Inspector, and easy-to-use and customizable markup quality tool to help teams write better and more consistent HTML.

Thierry Koblentz takes an in-depth look at managing the problems and edge cases that come with defining z-index based stacking contexts in large projects.

Hugo Giraudel comes from a Symfony background and in this post, he describes how he hacked together a URL-to-name mapping component in Jekyll.

Massimo Cassandro looks at some of the challenges in creating a date picker input that works cross-browser and is compatible with Bootstrap.

How can you test a browser which is not available on your OS? If Virtual Machines are too much effort, try RemoteIE on your Windows, Mac, iOS or Android device.

Aurelio De Rosa helps you brush up on your HTML skills by presenting 10 problems you might be asked to explain in a front-end developer job interview.

Louis Lazaris looks for the perfect resource for JavaScript and DOM browser compatibility tables. A number of really good choices are available.

Massimo Cassandro takes a look at the power of the Google Maps API, covering static, streetview, embedded, and JavaScript-based maps.

Reggie Dawson breaks down the different components of a Ghost blog theme, and how you can use that info to build your own responsive Ghost theme.

Elio Qoshi, a Mozilla volunteer representative, explains Mozilla's new major release: A separate standalone version of Firefox designed for web developers.

Aurelio De Rosa offers a description of 5 elements we used to be encouraged to use in HTML5, but are not not part of the spec, made obsolete.

Syed Fazle Rahman takes a detailed but succinct look at Bootstrap's grid system, breaking down the parts to get you up and running quickly.