A Guide To Attracting Clients To Your Agency

Without a doubt, word-of-mouth recommendation is an incredibly desirable way to win work. It requires zero marketing efforts and typically converts at a higher rate as your agency has been recommended. You should always be seeking to nurture word-of-mouth recommendations, and projects which come this way should make up a significant percentage of your...

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Adding Time To Your Schedule As A Professional

Many of us — myself included — may not realize how their time is spent each day. Some of the apps now available on iPhone or Android may help with some of the realization by telling us how much time we spend gaming, emailing or watching YouTube on our phone. This, however, may only capture a fraction of your day. One of my favorite videos that I personally...

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Color Tools And Resources

Today, we’re shining the spotlight on color tools and resources for all kinds of projects, from all types of color palettes and generators to getting contrast and gradients just right for your projects. This collection is by no means complete, but rather a selection of things that the team at Smashing found useful and hope will make your day-to-day...

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How To Migrate From WordPress To A Headless CMS

WordPress is the most used website builder in the world; almost half of the web has used WordPress to create their website. It makes sense, because it allows you to quickly create websites and has a rich plugin’s ecosystem to help you scale your site. But technology is evolving, and there are more and more options that make it easier to create websites....

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Maintaining End-To-End Quality With Visual Testing

Testing is a critical part of any developer’s workflow. It helps us to ensure that our project is going to maintain a high level of quality, as well as prevent any pesky bugs from getting out into the wild. But often automated tests can be a pain to manage. Between an endless amount of code to make sure you’re providing full coverage and dealing with...

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Three Insights I Gained While Researching Vue.js Accessibility

JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular and Vue have a very bad reputation when it comes to web accessibility. But is this due to inherent technical limitations or insurmountable problems of those tools? I think not. During the research phase of my book, “Accessible Vue,” I gained three insights regarding web app accessibility in general and the framework...

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You Can Do That With A JavaScript Data Grid?

Data grids, also known as data tables, are essential in presenting massive amounts of data to users. Users should be able to view the data in a way that’s easy to understand, analyze, and manipulate. However, building data grid views with performance, speed, and user experience in mind can be a particularly daunting task. This is especially true when...

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ISR vs DPR: Big Words, Quick Explanation

If you’ve been dabbling in the Jamstack/page rendering/Next.js world, chances are you’ve heard of the terms “Incremental Static Regeneration” (ISR) and “distributed persistent rendering” (DPR) floating around. And if you haven’t, you might be like, “Wow, these are long words that I’ll never understand.” That’s where you’re wrong! You’re about to understand...

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Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters

Filters are everywhere. While we often think of them appearing when booking flights or shopping online, filters are frequently used in pretty much every interface that features more than a handful of data points. It’s not necessarily just the sheer amount of data that is difficult to make sense of though; it’s the complexity and lack of consistency...

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Building A Dynamic Header With Intersection Observer

The Intersection Observer API is a JavaScript API that enables us to observe an element and detect when it passes a specified point in a scrolling container — often (but not always) the viewport — triggering a callback function. Intersection Observer can be considered more performant than listening for scroll events on the main thread, as it is asynchronous,...

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