CSS Hell – a collection of common CSS mistakes, and how to fix them. Collected by Stefánia Péter

⇾ Visit: CSS Hell (Stefánia Péter)

Lea Verou created this article for everybody who is thinking to create a dark mode for their website. Well explained and easy to follow.

⇾ Visit: Dark Mode in 5 Minutes, with Inverted Lightness Variables (Lea Verou)

Chris Coyier has created this guide on custom CSS properties. Make your CSS code more readable, cleaner and safe time changing stuff.

To the question ”Why care about CSS custom properties?” Chris writes …

1. They help DRY up your CSS. That is “Don’t Repeat Yourself.” Custom properties can make code easier to maintain because you can update one value and have it reflected in multiple places. Careful though, overdoing abstraction can make have the opposite effect and make code less understandable.
2. They are particularly helpful for things like creating color themes on a website.
3. They unlock interesting possibilities in CSS.
4. The fact that they can be updated in JavaScript opens up even more interesting doors.

⇾ Visit: A Complete Guide to Custom Properties on CSS Tricks

If you are – like me – using VS Code and you like to create your own look and feel for the environment you use, then here is something to waste your time with (I can easily spend days with this stuff to create everything like I want it). 😁

⇾ Visit: Theme Studio for VS Code

Ahmad Shadeed has collected and written about some practical use cases for CSS variables that are more than “only” storing your color values for the use in your CSS.

⇾ Visit: Practical Use Cases For CSS Variables by Ahmad Shadeed

This is a collection of useful and nice CSS tips by Marko Denic, that you don’t find typically in other CSS tutorial, like smooth scrolling or a typing effect, both without JS.

⇾ Visit: CSS Tips by Marko Denic

I myself removed all analytics tools about two or three years ago from any of my websites. Florens Verschelde has now taken a look onto a few different, small and privacy-focused tools for us.

⇾ Visit: A Quick Look at Privacy-Focused Analytics for Small Sites

The CSS Working Group Editor’s Draft for Selectors Level 4 includes several pseudo-class selectors that already have proposal candidates in most modern browsers. This guide on Smashing Magazine, written by Stephanie Eckles, covers those that currently have the best support.

⇾ Visit: A Guide To Newly Supported, Modern CSS Pseudo-Class Selectors (Smashing Magazine

My favourite CMS – Kirby – got a new website. I like how it turned out and think Basti and the Kirby team did a good job in summarising and visualising how flexible the CMS is.

Next to the teaser/header image, showing the Kirby panel, you can click on different use cases or “user groups” (eg. “Your company”, “Your products”, “Your magazine” etc.). If you click on a different scenario, the header with the panel image for the different scenario changes, but also the file structure below the image adapts and the text file screenshot. I like this.

I also like the visualisation of the continuous story/journey you are on, done though a thin grey line leading from the use case navigation down to the footer with the target groups.

All in all I think that this is well done and fitting for Kirby. The overall appearance feels light and still has its own handwriting (or Basti’s? 🤔 … 😁). The new site leaves enough neutrality to find your own role amongst the mentioned roles – or even create a new one – but takes you by the hand, so that you are able to find your way and be guided.

Congrats to the whole Kirby team for the relaunch and now on to fix all the little bugs 😆

For the next week – until April 23rd – you can safe 20% on Kirby licenses … buy a full basket of licenses to safe $$$ for future projects 😊 )

This is a quick guide by Paul Boag to help you creating a landing page that works for you. He covers:

1. Define Your Calls to Action
2. Understand Your Audience
3. Outline Your Messaging
4. Draft Your Content
5. Design Your Content Flow
6. Elicit the Right Reaction
7. Launch, Monitor and Iterate

⇾ Visit: How to Design a Landing Page (Paul Boag)