Blog - page 19

2016-05-27T00:00:00.000Z 27th May 2016

12 favourite atom tips and shortcuts to improve your workflow

Sitepoint

Atom is a fantastic IDE and is hugely powerful. I share my favourite, time-saving tips, packages and shortcuts for GitHub's Atom code editor.

2016-05-20T00:00:00.000Z 20th May 2016

CSS frameworks and why you should make one

With recent front-end twitter conversation turning to CSS frameworks, I went on a roller coaster of emotions but eventually settled on the above to sum up how I felt about the ordeal. Before we settle once more, let me take you on the journey I travelled.

2016-05-04T00:00:00.000Z 4th May 2016

Creating a custom Mailchimp template with layout variations

Liquid Light

Creating a responsive, HTML email template is not as easy as it first appears. Email clients are still behind with web standards and supporting latest web technologies, so HTML emails need to be built using the table element and inline styles. This blog will walk you through creating a custom template while still using Mailchimp's WYSIWYG and Image editor

2016-05-04T00:00:00.000Z 4th May 2016

Small code snippets for Alligator.io

I have recently been writing some small code snippets and examples for alligator.io. It's a great little website which takes front-end code and breaks them down into bitesize ...

2016-04-20T00:00:00.000Z 20th April 2016

Making Craft CMS work with Prism JS using pre and code blocks

You may (or may not) have noticed that my site had a massive overhaul. With that overhaul, I changed CMS from Anchor to Craft.

2016-04-11T00:00:00.000Z 11th April 2016

Newsletters for Front-end developers

There is so much information on the web these days about development, that I often miss out on things on twitter. For that reason, I find HTML newsletters amazingly simple but wonderfully nutritional for my front-end developer brain.

2016-03-22T00:00:00.000Z 22nd March 2016

How do I update to Gulp 4?

Liquid Light

Gulp is a task runner used for compiling SCSS to CSS, minifying JS and creating SVG sprites. Version 4 is about to be released and this blog post runs you through how to update and use the new features of gulp.

2016-03-06T00:00:00.000Z 6th March 2016

Download files via command line

I recently purchased a Western Digital EX2 NAS box for my home storage. This device is a low powered file server which is on all the time - perfect for taking care of those hefty downloads and long running tasks so I don't need to keep my laptop on.

2016-03-04T00:00:00.000Z 4th March 2016

Get background image information if element has a one in jQuery

Recently I need to loop through elements on a page and, if the element had a background image apply a jQuery plugin. The plugin required the background image path & dimensions to function

2016-02-15T00:00:00.000Z 15th February 2016

Raspberry Pi: what is it and why do i need one?

Liquid Light

The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer which has taken the technical world by storm. Originally developed to encourage children and schools to get into programming - the cheap device has been picked up by the development and hacking industries and has been the central device in projects no-one would have dreamed of while it was being developed.