Smashing Magazine

JULY 20, 2022

You might already know that Smashing Magazine has published the book Image Optimization by Addy Osmani, which covers this topic in full detail. But consider this post a compliment to the book, as this will focus purely on different tools available for reducing the size of images. compresses images on the server. Compressor.io

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

It graphs server, network, CSS, Javascript, critical content, and image optimizations to show the potential savings you could gain by incorporating fixes into your site. They are granular and available at domain and page levels. The tool is available on its webpage or as a command line tool. They are also shareable. Once a week.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To do that, you develop a personalized design style, including a certain combination of colors, typography, spacing, animations, and others, and apply the style consistently throughout your site. An example in case is this same website, Smashing Magazine. What about images? It makes more sense to automate this task. Conclusion.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

The tooling to get a report with details from the time it takes to establish a server connection to the time it takes for the full page to render is out there. Even with all of the available tools at my disposal, I still find myself reaching for several of them. Lighthouse results.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

That’s not to say the extraneous content is pointless — enhanced design and user interfaces can have an important impact on the brand of a website, and delightful little extras can really impact your users’ relationship with your site. That user preference is available in two (hopefully soon to be three!) Save Data API.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

We’ll be focusing on three places where you can get the wildcard: Server Side In getServerSideProps , Client Side With useEffect , Server Side On API Routes And Edge Functions. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Design The Perfect Navigation , with Vitaly Friedman. Server Side In getServerSideProps. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

You can find a comprehensive Beginner’s Guide To Progressive Web Apps on Smashing Magazine that focuses on building the core of PWAs. The service workers also retrieve the latest data once the server connection is restored. Code My UI has some excellent code snippets available that you can use to create a skeleton screen for your PWA.

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KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. A List Apart A List Apart focuses on UX and branding from business and design-oriented perspectives. Topics include web design, security, web-based tools and workflows and more.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

All of these techniques basically involve setting aside the correct amount of space before additional content is loaded — whether that is media or JavaScript-injected content, but there’s a few different options available to web developers to do this. On design systems, CSS/JS and smart interface design patterns.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 23, 2022

Some answers from the community surprised me, as they’ve included some very useful and often-requested CSS features which were made available in the past year or two. Whenever we export an icon from a design tool, it comes with a specific fill and other color values defined in the design. So, let’s get started! all Property.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

From connecting back-office operations to front-of-the-house A/B testing and dynamic personalization for each customer, the shared foundation is fast server-side rendering powered by fast storefront data access. Surveying the existing landscape of available developer tools and runtimes, we felt that there is a gap. Large preview ).

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KeyCDN

JANUARY 16, 2019

The concept of responsive web design has been around for a while, but all of the kinks have yet to be ironed out. They act as a sort of liaison between the client and the server to put together the best page layout possible. One of the biggest challenges of responsive web design is creating clean markup. Why Use Client Hints?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

There are many CLIs available out there. Designing and implementing these graphical interfaces takes a lot more work. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Finally, if you have some tasks to do on remote servers, you’ll often end up using the shell.

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. So, apart from powering servers with renewable energy, what else can web developers do about climate change? This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This occurs when you are revalidating the page on the server. The first solution that comes to mind may be to simply server side render the pages, ensuring that the client is always sent the most up to date data. seconds for the Server Side Rendering variant (plus a warning regarding initial server response time).

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Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly. What does it mean?

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When your content is delivered by other means, from other servers or platforms, it can put the user experience and commercial relationship you have built up with your users at risk. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

When evaluating whether it’s better for us to create our own platform, or to use a third-party service, there are some things that we should consider: Designing and creating authentication services is not our core skill. SDK available to use in our app. And that would be the server-side part of our app. Auth0 SDK For Next.js.

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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. Time To First Byte (TTFB) This is the time it takes for the first piece of information from the server to reach the user’s browser.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We will go through how to set up an Nx server, how to add a plugin to an existing server, and the concept of a monorepo with a practical visualization. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. A few other options are available for an Express app.

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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? Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

All industries have a part to play, and that includes web design and development. For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Tom Greenwood’s book, Sustainable Web Design is packed with advice for building low-carbon websites.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A measly front-end designer like me can be blissfully ignorant of all this mumbo-jumbo. Let’s look at it for a site that’s much “heavier” than Smashing Magazine. A font is a branding consideration as well as a design asset that can enhance the legibility of a site’s content. But does it need to be available immediately ?

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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? Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webpage performance test report for the Smashing Magazine website. At first glance, it seems like a simple task, but in the background, browsers do a tedious job of calculating the size of these images in different scenarios: For images that are resized in responsive design. The change of design. Large preview ).

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Today, we’ll address storing and serving files for both single-server and scalable deployments while considering factors like compression, caching, and availability. The two types of Django deployments are: Single-Server. A single-server Django deployment is exactly what it sounds like: everything lives on a single server.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

You’ve spent months putting together a great website design, crowd-pleasing content, and a business plan to bring it all together. You’ve focused on making the web design responsive to ensure that the widest audience of visitors can access your content. You’ve agonized over design patterns and usability. Ken Harker.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. The Design Gives Ground For Utmost Usability. But this “look” is now available in browsers.

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Smashing Magazine

MARCH 28, 2019

In early discussions you have with clients about the website you’re tasked with designing, does the topic of web hosting ever come up? For starters, they’re paying you a large sum of money to design the site. The Web Designer’s Connection to Web Hosting. I get why they’d think that way.

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Smashing Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

When evaluating whether it’s better for us to create our own platform, or to use a third-party service, there are some things that we should consider: Designing and creating authentication services is not our core skill. SDK available to use in our app. And that would be the server-side part of our app. Auth0 SDK For Next.js.

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

file: module.exports = { plugins: [ { resolve: `gatsby-transformer-remark`, options: { }, }, ], }; Restart the development server and navigate to [link] graphql in the browser. Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. Once it is installed, we will need to register it in the project’s gatsby-config.js

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Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Meet Smashing Workshops on front-end, design & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. It’s also a key component in responsive design , as it instructs browsers to use certain versions of an image at different viewport widths. It’s more beneficial to customize it to fit the design.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. Frustrating Design Patterns: Disabled Buttons. After all, as designers and developers, we want to make it more difficult for our users to make mistakes. We want to ensure that the input is perfectly correct before the data is even sent to the server. Part Of: Design Patterns.

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Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

Even if your website is designed with usability in mind, these factors impede users from fully benefiting from the website’s features. Continue reading below ↓ Meet “Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces” , our brand-new Smashing Book on designing for mobile with proven, universal, human-centric guidelines. More after jump!

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

That’s because they are meant for user preferences, as mentioned here in the case of iOS and here in the Android documentation when talking about the Security library which is designed to provide wrappers to the SharedPreferences specifically to encrypt the data before storing it. Secure Storage On Mobile. No, not at all. Solving Both.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

HTTP(s) Headers are key-value pairs that can be used by the client or server to pass additional information along with an HTTP(s) request or response. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Email Newsletter with useful tips on front-end, design & UX. This is only available as a Python module. What Are HTTP(s) Headers?

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