The team at Smashing Magazine have come a long way. I’m sure many of us remember how they broke ground, paving the way for so many copycat websites. While they still have a place in their hearts for the occasional “round-up” post, they are now focused on publishing the best web design and development related content in the world.
In my opinion, now that they have branched out into print publishing and have drastically improved their review and screening process for authors and articles, I think they have overtaken the previous industry leaders and are now the #1 web development resource in the world. That’s not taking anything away from publishers like A List Apart, SitePoint, or others; those organizations have their niche, and they will continue to be big. But Smashing Magazine has, in my opinion, surpassed them all.
Sometime over the past week, my Windows 7 machine did some updates that, amazingly, included an auto-update of IE10 to IE11. This is great news. This is the first time I’ve heard of any version of IE being pushed out automatically as a “critical” update (which I assume is what it did, since I don’t ever do the optional updates and those don’t happen automatically).
As you might already know, CSS transitions and animations allow you to animate a specific set of CSS properties. One of the properties that cannot be animated is the 
I don’t think this happens very often. To be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever used a percentage value on a top padding/margin, or a bottom padding/margin value. Even for height values, I may have used a 100% value for a hack, but nothing else.
This year I had the pleasure of completing my second book, and the first book that I authored all by myself: 
As many of you know, I’ve recently launched a new weekly newsletter called 
In recent months, I’ve come across a number of links discussing the issue of Search Engine Optmization (SEO) for single page apps or similar complex JavaScript-driven web apps.
The last thing developers need today is another jQuery and/or CSS3 based content slider or carousel. I think the problems with these types of modules have been 
Due to the prevalence of ad-blockers, ads as a means to support online content is becoming a less effective method with each passing month.
A couple of months ago I saw 
