Now that the stormy debate around whether or not designers should be able to code what they produce has died down, the new debate du jour is here! Or rather, it’s back again. This one has been around before, and it’s about whether laying out your CSS code on single lines (one selector per line), [...]
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Sometimes we need to take our web apps offline temporarily (usually for scheduled major updates or emergency repair work), whereby regular users are shown a simple static page notifying them that the site is unavailable but still giving developers/admins full access to the site to test changes. Of course you could implement this in your [...]
Print stylesheets are an aspect of front-end engineering that rarely get any love, and they’ll often be ignored until the last possible moment before launching a site. Sometimes they might even be forgotten altogether, but you should always make time to write at least a basic stylesheet that formats things neatly, and reveals any elements [...]
Central heating, as a domestic utility, has not changed much over the decades. We burn fuel, our homes stay warm when its cold outside, and we generally regulate the service in one of two ways — either it’s thermostatically controlled to maintain a constant room temperature, or scheduled according to rudimentary on/off time programming.