Notes

⇾ How to Design a Landing Page (Paul Boag)

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)

⇾ Modern CSS Upgrades To Improve Accessibility (Stephanie Eckles)

Accessibility is a critical skill for developers doing work at any point in the stack. For front-end tasks, modern CSS provides capabilities we can leverage to make layouts more accessibly inclusive for users of all abilities across any device.

A post by Stephanie Eckles, which covers:

  • Focus Visibility
  • Focus vs. Source Order
  • Desktop Zoom and Reflow
  • Sizing Interactive Targets
  • Respecting Color and Contrast Settings
  • Accessibility Learning Resources

Worth reading!

⇾ Visit: Modern CSS Upgrades To Improve Accessibility (Stephanie Eckles)

⇾ Web Development History

Richard MacManus has started a blog about “Web Development History”.

He says

As the name suggests, it’ll be an ongoing chronicle of internet history — but from a development perspective.

⇾ Visit: Web Development History

⇾ Handling Text Over Images in CSS

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Ahmad Shadeed has written a very useful and insightful article about which option you have got to deal with text that is placed over an image, using CSS.

⇾ Visit: Handling Text Over Images in CSS

⇾ Building Dark Mode

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Toggling light mode to dark mode is not simply inverting colors or making everything that is white black and vice versa. There are lots of things to consider, when creating a dark mode for your website. It also is not simply a design decision, but can be very useful. Robin Rendle explains why …

⇾ Visit: Building Dark Mode

⇾ How to Favicon in 2021

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“How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs” – Andrey Sitnik about a smarter approach to use a minimal set of icons instead of a huge list of files (via Manuel Matuzović).

⇾ Visit: How to Favicon in 2021

⇾ Colloq is Closing Down

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Anselm, Tobias and Holger started Colloq to fill a gap that appeared when Lanyrd wasn’t maintained anymore and filled with spam posts. I sadly felt, what happened now for the last couple of months: Colloq says good bye and is closing in March 2021.

⇾ Visit: Colloq is Closing Down

⇾ Andy Baio Working on a New Virtual Event Platform – Skittish

Andy Baio, who spoke at beyond tellerrand in the early days and co-organised XOXO for 7 year, was “Frustrated with the state of virtual event platforms[…]”, so he started working on one and called it Skittish.

Exciting to see, where this leads to.

⇾ Visit: Andy Baio Working on a New Virtual Event Platform – Skittish

⇾ Looking Forward to Tonight’s Show with Carla Diana and Brendan Dawes

Very much looking forward to continue my online event series I called Stay Curious and which is for the beyond tellerrand Community. Tonight with Carla Diana and Brendan Dawes.

⇾ Visit: Looking Forward to Tonight’s Show with Carla Diana and Brendan Dawes

⇾ Recording of the Kirby 3.5. Release Show on Stay Curious

Last week Bastian Allgeier and I hosted the release show of Kirby CMS version 3.5. The recording is online on YouTube now.

⇾ Visit: Recording of the Kirby 3.5. Release Show on Stay Curious