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Art Direction For The Web
We chat with Andy Clarke on what Art Direction means, what we can learn from the great print Art Directors like Alexey Brodovitch, Bea Feitler, and Neville Brody, and how we can apply their thinking to the web with modern CSS.
Inspired By: Avaunt Magazine
In the first edition of “Inspired by,” Andy will “Say hello to skinny columns,” a technique which adds one extra narrow column to an otherwise conventional column grid. He will explain how to design with, then implement skinny columns using meaningful markup and efficient CSS. He will explain how to design using modular grids to fill your designs with energy.
Progressive Web Applications For Production In 1-2-3 (Part 2)
Part two of a three-part intensive, hands-on course in building a PWA. We take the latest version of the awesome Workbox library to see how easy is to automate all the offline-ready functionality we need for PWA while still keeping a full control on the service worker behavior. Feel free to either just watch, or code along too!
The Fabulous And Groovy Vadim And Vitaly Video Show 2
The first edition of a monthly news round-up and discussion. With Vadim, Vitaly, and someone else.
The How And Why Of Semantic HTML
The Twitter battles rage about the value of HTML. With all our build tools and JavaScript eating the world, who has time to learn all the tags when you can just hang everything off divs and spans? But choosing the correct semantic element for the job isn’t simply a ‘artisanal’ pursuit for philosophical purists - it can have significant practical benefits for usability, code reduction and future-proofing. In this webinar you’ll learn about the UI that browsers give you for free with various elements, some of the unseen UI benefits, and how non-traditional web clients make use of HTML semantics to give a better user experience, without you having to write any extra code.