Smashing Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

We then adjusted our build to generate base64-strings for AVIF files automatically during the build time (if author images are available as AVIF images). With wonderful attendees from all over the world coming together to learn together, so many ideas have been brought to life — especially in the live design and coding sessions.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

You know, have a plan for it and write code that’s mindful about adding extra weight to the page. But not everything about performance happens directly at the code level, right? I’d say many — if not most — sites and apps rely on some number of third-party scripts where we might not have any influence over the code.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

They were designed to provide a way to execute JavaScript code in the background, separate from the main execution thread of a web page, in order to improve performance and responsiveness. The main thread is the single execution context that is responsible for rendering the UI, executing JavaScript code, and handling user interactions.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2021

And suddenly, before you know it, the code base gets a little bit overweight and fragmented , third-party scripts have to load just a little bit earlier, and shiny new dynamic content finds its way into the DOM through the backdoors of fourth-party scripts and their uninvited guests. On some article pages, the graph looked differently.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

For the end-user to actually benefit from this improvement there are cache invalidation strategies that must be considered. But this allows us to decouple content from code, by moving content to a Content Management System (CMS) we can update information in a few seconds, regardless of how big our application is. Build Times.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). Refactoring CSS: Strategy, Regression Testing And Maintenance (Part 2). In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the refactoring process itself, and cover incremental refactoring strategy, visual regression testing, and maintaining the refactored codebase.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Have we optimized enough with tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, progressive hydration, clients hints, HTTP/3, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? Performance Budgets, Pragmatically shows you a strategy to achieve that. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Over the last little while, I’ve been able to collect links to several interactive coding tools and apps that can help you supplement your skills in different areas of web development. This is a straightforward flexbox playground that also generates the code for you. “code golf”). Image source: Flexbox Zombies ).

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Definitely read up on the strategy and reasoning behind this stack in the first article if you missed it. We used an eager loading strategy paired with a high fetchpriority on the images. width="250" height="350" /> This cocktail of strategies made a noticeable difference in how quickly the page loads.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They all generally are instrumented as JavaScript processes that are loaded onto your site’s web pages through a tag or snippet of loader code. Typically, these would be pages that might no longer be available on the site but are available in third-party archives. Turning The Data Into Information.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Ahmad’s strategies on achieving the cut-out effect. The article also provides plenty of code examples to get started with! To achieve it, Rauno uses an experimental CSS property element() to display a live image from an arbitrary HTML element (which currently only available in Firefox). Conditional Border Radius In CSS.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

There are also other options available. According to a study by Citrix , a multi-CDN strategy can reduce latency even further and offer continued availability in case of localized outages in the CDN’s edge nodes. However, determining the right content to deliver depends on both your business strategy and site performance. “A

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? It’s much easier to reach performance goals when the code base is fresh or is just being refactored.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In Part 1 , we discussed various strategies and techniques for handling images, video, and audio in a Gatsby project. The gatsby-remark-images plugin is capable of processing Markdown images, making them available when querying the Markdown from the data layer. That is what this brief two-part series is about. The disadvantage?

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? How do we actually know where we stand in terms of performance, and what our performance bottlenecks exactly are?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Automation improves the quality of our work, since we can avoid having to manually execute mind-numbing tasks again and again, which will enable us to use all our time for coding, and reassures us that the deployment will not fail due to human errors (such as overriding the wrong folder as in the old FTP days). Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

As a result, she came back to me concerned with publishing a post on a strategy her agency had yet to adopt successfully. Clean coding practices. Let the web developer handle all of the necessary speed optimizations like caching and file minification while you take on the following design tips and strategies: 1. Minification.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. Now we’ve explored the theory of this strategy, let’s explore how we put it into practise. For this we’re going to build a website that shows how many taxis are available in Singapore (where I live!)

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Create valid ones using locale code and/or country codes and stick with lower-case because they will generate a url soon. With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. Those property values will determine the routes, so do not go too fancy on them.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We’ll finish off by skimming lightly over more or less the entire process of designing digital touchscreen products, from teams to strategy and onward. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle). eBook is already available as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle. Shipping starting late-December. Technical Details.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

It’s not just source code for the configuration, models, views, and templates, but also static assets: CSS and JavaScript, images, icons. Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. Philip Kiely. Static Files.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

In this article, we will review what third-party resource requests are, consider how impactful they can be to the user experience, and discuss common optimization strategies to reduce the impact on the user experience. In many cases, they can be super convenient to add or remove without having to push code changes to the site.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Due to the high-quality standard of Google Fonts, many of the font families contain the full spectrum of available font-weights: Thin (100). The default code for implementing Google Fonts looks like this: <link href="[link] rel="stylesheet"> If you do that, it will load only the ‘regular 400’ variant. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. In that case, you can always use the <picture> HTML tag, as shown in the code below, so that the browser can pick the image format supported in the order provided. <picture> Large preview ). The Relation Between Images And Web Performance. title (Text).

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Packed with useful tips and techniques , the book has a sharp focus on practical application and longevity of your image optimization strategies. The eBook is available right away (PDF, ePUB, Amazon Kindle).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

Some of the biggest size savings and performance improvements can come through a better image optimization strategy. Packed with useful tips and techniques , the book has a sharp focus on practical application and longevity of your image optimization strategies. eBook is available, too as PDF, ePUB, and Amazon Kindle.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 16, 2022

By stepping back and realizing that the fields available have no special bindings to particular types of data, we can see that this technique is also an effective delivery mechanism for any arbitrary data allowing lots of interesting possibilities. Code used to monitor resources (fetch, XHR, images, stylesheets, scripts, HTML, etc.)

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor. Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. Smashing Magazine powered by Netlify. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

Many articles and books are available for you to learn more about this design process. Jaime Levy gives very good definitions of direct and indirect competitors in her book UX Strategy. Example of competitive analysis matrix spreadsheet from UX Strategy, Jaime Levy’s book. You can perform UX research at any stage.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

However, end-to-end testing does have some pitfalls that are cause for concern: End-to-end tests are slow and, thus, pose a significant hurdle in every continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) strategy. With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With detailed code walkthroughs , hands-on examples and common gotchas — all broken down into short, manageable lessons. However, conducting online experiments is a fairly inexpensive way to develop better websites, apps, services, and strategies and make decisions not based on intuition, but on scientific data. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

Let’s progress from theoretical considerations into hands-on code. In the following code block, you see a component listing the newest problems in an online shop. Insight 2: There Are Established Strategies To Tackle Web App Accessibility Problems. Strategy 1: Announcing Dynamic Updates With Live Regions. More after jump!

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Is the entire corpus available (I doubt it), or just certain random articles? I suspect that OpenAI would have difficulty going higher, even given Microsoft’s investments—and, whatever else you may think of this strategy—OpenAI has to think about the total cost.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

Designing With Code: A Modern Approach To Design. The Rise Of Design Thinking As A Problem Solving Strategy. He’s been writing code for two decades, and using JavaScript the whole time. They just have to copy and pastable Chakra code. Is that born out in the code itself? Some of these are actually available.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The key to successful hiring requires a different strategy: a list of strict requirements and versatile aspects to assess. It is advisable for your designer team to have at least basic knowledge of HTML/CSS and understand how front-end/code/styles work, as well as to be able to use the console and make any adjustments if necessary.

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Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Minification removes unnecessary spaces and characters, but uglification actually ‘mangles’ the code to be shorter. The tell-tale sign is that the code contains short, machine-generated variable names rather than untouched source code. But I suspect a lot of it is tracking code and advertising setup. Large preview ).

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