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Is can be quite a challenge to align things with CSS. Rachel Andrew takes a look.
Plesk VPS Hosting For Better Website Outcomes
It might feel like there are some things outside of your control as a web designer or developer. Like web hosting. But what if you had a say in it? Today, we’re going to explore Plesk VPS hosting as an option.
Building Real-Time Charts With GraphQL And Postgres
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Meet “Art Direction For The Web,” A New Smashing Book By Andy Clarke
Art direction has been part of advertising and print design for over 100 years, but on the web art direction is rare and there have been few meaningful conversations about it. Art Direction for the Web by Andy Clarke changes that and explains art …
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Machine Learning, AI, And Design Teams
“Designing for machine learning isn’t for the hand-wavy future. This is very much for the here and now.” Josh Clark wrote a detailed post on why machine learning and AI matter for design teams.
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CSSBattle is an online CSS Code Golfing game where players try to visually replicate targets in smallest possible CSS code to get to the top of the leaderboard.
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Meet Design Systems, a recent Smashing book in which Alla Kholmatova explores how to set up an effective design system to create great digital products. With common traps, gotchas and lessons learned.
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