How To Learn CSS — Smashing Magazine

You don’t need to commit to memorizing every CSS Property and Value, as there are good places to look them up. There are some fundamental things, however, which will make CSS much easier for you to use. In this article, Rachel Andrew aims to guide you along your path of learning CSS and outline resources […]

When And How To Use CSS Multi-Column Layout — Smashing Magazine

The Multi-column Layout spec is often overlooked as we use Grid and Flexbox. In this article Rachel Andrew explains why it is different to other layout methods, and shows some useful patterns and sites which showcase it well. Rachel will take a look at Multi-column Layout — often referred to as multicol or sometimes “CSS

Table Design Patterns On The Web — Smashing Magazine

Tables are a design pattern for displaying large amounts of data in rows and columns, and have been used for this purpose as early as the 2nd century and when the world started to go digital, tables came along with us. Tables have not yet seemed to fall out of favor, so, in this article, Huijing Chen will

How To Architect A Complex Web Table — Smashing Magazine

Tables frequently appear on the web but aren’t easy to design and code. People will expect tables. Not those fancy ones from design inspiration sites but Excel-looking monsters with hundreds of cells and complex interaction. In this case, a designer faces many challenges. With this illustrated guide, Slava Shestopalov explains the table anatomy and how

Building Robust Layouts With Container Units — Smashing Magazine

When inspecting most other grids in DevTools, you’ll notice that column widths are dependent on their parent element. Container units are a specialized set of CSS variables. They mirror the layout functionality found in UI design software where configuring just three values provides your document with a global set of columns and gutters to measure

Art Direction For The Web Using CSS Shapes — Smashing Magazine

Last year, Rachel Andrew wrote “Take A New Look At CSS Shapes” where she reintroduced readers to the basics of using CSS Shapes. In this new tutorial, Andy Clarke expands on the topic of “Art Direction for the Web” with CSS Shapes to create exciting and inspired new design ideas. Andy is going to show

A Better Alternative? — Smashing Magazine

Phones are getting bigger, and some parts of the screen are easier to interact with than others. Having the hamburger menu at the top provides too big of an interaction cost, and we have a large number of amazing mobile app designs that utilize the bottom part of the screen. We need to adjust how

What Does A Foldable Web Actually Mean? — Smashing Magazine

Foldable devices have brought with them talk of a ‘foldable web,’ and the idea that long-standing web conventions may be on the verge of a serious shakeup. Is it all hype, or is it time to get flexible? The ‘foldable web’ will bring with it new challenges, new opportunities, and, in all likelihood, new syntax.

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