Back by popular demand! It’s difficult to keep track of all of the great talks and conferences happening in our industry. Sometimes you may find out too late that an event is taking place, and it’s a real shame when it’s an something you might have attended. We’ve compiled this list so you can s...
I’m thrilled to announce a brand new workshop series I’m starting with Val Head about web animation! We’ll be taking two-day workshop around to different cities starting this November, starting with Austin and New York. Whether you’re a beginner or you’ve been diving into animation already, this course won’...
Like a lot of other developers, I’m working through my continued education learning what I can about ES6. One of the ways I’m doing this is to attend workshops by smart people. I went to Kyle Simpson’s ES6: The Good Parts course and found myself particularly interested in the practical applications of a piece of ...
I recently worked on a project that was getting a ton of traffic but users were bouncing because the page load was too long at around 10 seconds. They called me in because the majority of the images on that site were SVGs, and they were animated. I trained the team how to decrease the file size on the SVGs while preser...
The question I am asked most frequently: what animation tool do you recommend? Having worked with a slew of them, I can tell you there is no right answer. It’s a complicated question and complicated answer. This post serves to clarify what to use, and when, to get you working with the right tool for the job. If ...
This article is not intended for seasoned React pros, but rather, those of us who make websites for a living and are curious how React can help us reason about updating user interfaces. I’ve been intrigued by React for some time, and now that it has gained some standing in the community as well as good reviews, the t...
We’ve talked about SVG quite a bit here on CSS-Tricks, but one area we haven’t quite touched on is email. Now that browser support for SVG is all in the green, it would be easy to assume that we can start using SVG everywhere. However, if you’ve worked with email before, you may know that it often follows way beh...
In my first post about making charts, I looked at methods that solely relied on CSS. I argued that this wasn’t the best option in most cases; there are just too many tricky design and development hurdles to overcome. Generally speaking, it’s best to make charts with a combination of SVG, JavaScript, and CSS.Why n...
Have you ever had a day at work where you were constantly put towards a new task as you were ramping up on the current one? It feels jarring at best, and completely frustrating and time-wasting at worst. In recent years, employers at big companies have begun to consider the cost of context-shifting—the time spent...
Creating CSS animations may be about learning the syntax, but mastering a beautiful and intuitive-feeling animation requires a bit more nuance. Since animations command so much attention, it’s important to refine our code to get the timing right and debug things when they go wrong. After tackling this problem mys...
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