Blog posts
All 157 of my blog posts, most recent first...
- The development burden of user choice
- Not enough or too much data
- Please stop using flags to represent languages
- Why should we care about Web Accessibility?
- Learning TypeScript
- Rebranding Tips - Part 4 - Typography
- Rebranding Tips - Part 3 - Colours
- Rebranding Tips - Part 2 - Brand Names
- Rebranding Tips - Part 1 - Logos
- What to Validate on a Form
- Pronunciation of Terms in Web Development
- How Widespread is Ad Blocking?
- Practical Tips to Reduce your Carbon Footprint
- WordPress to Eleventy - Part 2, The How
- WordPress to Eleventy - Part 1, The Why
- Who'd be a front end developer?
- Prototyping in CodePen
- UI Performance - Critical Rendering Path Optimisation
- CARPET - A Front End Checklist
- How I'd Learn Front End Web Development Now
- Emmet - Write HTML and CSS Faster
- Progress Indicators
- New Image Formats - WebP and AVIF
- Transitioning to Modern JavaScript
- Learning to Write Code that is Good Enough
- Reasons for Developers to Have a Blog
- The Dangers of Logic in CSS
- Clicking Off Things to Close Them
- Tips for Working from Home
- Print CSS Tips
- Switching APIs
- Safer Passwords
- Edging Out of IE Support
- Performance Perception Trick: Processing Lists Faster
- Should Designers Be Able to Code?
- What Techies Tweet
- When to Reach for a Framework (and When Not To)
- Hiding UI Elements
- What I Learned in 2018
- The DOM Diet and Year Pickers
- Why Are We Making Web Development So Hard?
- Learning Experiences as a Freelancer
- Super Fast Tree View in JavaScript
- Stop Linking to Nowhere
- Google Analytics - Why You Should Replace IDs in URLs
- Experiment: Font Size vs Colour Contrast
- Making Icons Accessible
- A New Found Appreciation for Images on the Web
- How to Be a Good Designer
- Lightning Fast Filtering in JavaScript
- Accessible Colour Contrast
- What I Learned in 2017
- Native Browser Controls Rule
- Do IT Qualifications Hold Value?
- Shared User Accounts
- Setting Performance Targets
- To DOM or Not to DOM?
- Speed, Usability and Speed
- Component World
- Different Conditional Syntaxes in JavaScript
- Hacking Borders
- Take a Tour
- Why It's Still Worth Learning Bootstrap
- Presenting Multiple Layouts
- Measuring Front End Performance
- Front End Performance Enhancements
- Precision Level in CSS
- The Welsh Language Conundrum
- Pet Hate: Click Here
- HTML Semantics - Header or Sidebar?
- Reorganising Data Client Side
- Measuring Readership
- Talking to Machines
- Learning the Right Things
- International box-sizing Awareness Day
- iOS vs Android vs Windows in 2017
- Opera Neon - First Impressions
- Snark Overflow
- Blogging Nostalgia
- The End of the EU Cookie Law
- Cut the Crap!
- What I Learned in 2016 (Part 3)
- What I Learned in 2016 (Part 2)
- What I Learned in 2016 (Part 1)
- Code Neat Freak
- Is UX Design Really a Thing?
- Displaying Options in a UI
- Emotional Response
- Let Off the IE9 Leash
- A/A Testing
- Click Fear
- Bad Web Dev
- When to Hide and When to Disable
- Getting Feedback on Codepen Demos
- Beautifying Native Form Elements
- Star Wars Mini Projects in Codepen
- Web Animation Tips
- Mother Nature in Web Design
- Lazy HTML :(
- Ordering CSS Properties A-Z
- What to Look For in a Web Designer or Design Agency
- Can I Track It?
- Google Maps - The Bits They Don't Tell You
- Tools of the Trade
- Learning Flexbox
- Loading More Items
- Boosting Web Performance
- Bilingual Equality with a Splash Page
- Website Redesign - chrissmith.xyz
- Setting Default Styling for Custom UI Components
- What I Learned in 2015
- Easier Colours in Web Design
- Developing in Codepen
- Questioning the UX of an App I've Never Seen
- Forgotten Passwords
- What I Learned in 2014: Part 3 - The Best of the Rest
- What I Learned in 2014: Part 2 - Javascript and Google Maps
- What I Learned in 2014: Part 1 - HTML, CSS, Fonts and Images
- If Facebook had a Yawn Button
- My New Website
- How to choose the right web host
- How to pick the right domain name
- Static Website or Content Management System?
- Good web design – following conventions
- Fighting Spam
- Twitter explained simply
- Web traffic through quality links
- Introducing... Dinowebs.net
- My website is 5 today!
- Monitoring your Marketing with Unique URLs
- Don't put all your eggs in Google's basket
- Hits schmits! What do Web Statistics really mean?
- Need a website? Confused about what you need? Read this.
- My Firefox Add-ons
- Online ways to launch a website
- Web Development - it's not like building a shed
- The new language of Social Media
- Marketing through Facebook, for free
- My Software Preferences
- Moving from Print to Web in Stages
- Amazon - design a 4 year old can use
- Google's Personalised Search
- I want an ecommerce site. Maybe you don't?
- eMarketing Award Distinction :)
- The Cheap Web Design Market
- The Information Hungry Search Box
- Website Design - the Finishing Touches
- Basic Website Integration
- Web Design for the non-designer
- Beat the Credit Crunch - Move Online
- Content Management Systems explained
- Web Design for Different Screen Sizes
- Links, link exchanges and strategies
- What is a website visitor worth?
- Google Chrome - first impressions
- The Web 2.0 concept - the basics
- The CIM eMarketing Award