On many sites and apps, you’ll often have to mark up and style a button that is not part of a list of links, and that basically stands alone, apart from surrounding content.
How should a single, standalone link or button be marked up? As with many things in web development, there isn’t really a right or wrong way to do this, but here’s a summary of some of the different methods.
Here’s a short list of some resources that front-end developers might be interested in checking out. A few interesting podcasts here along with some books and a weekly newsletter.
Comment if you know of or have authored any other sources, and I’ll consider them for future posts.
If you haven’t heard yet, last week the jQuery team announced on their blog that jQuery 2.0, which is scheduled for an early 2013 release “removes support for IE 6/7/8 oddities such as borked event model, IE7 ‘attroperties’, HTML5 shims, etc.”
In this post, I’m just briefly showing everyone a simple solution for serving a different version of jQuery (or really, any script) to Internet Explorer versions 6-8.
The books shown below with images are books that I personally recommend for web design, development, and writing. Many of these links contain affiliate codes, which means I get a small cut if you make a purchase. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 7th Edition by David Flanagan […]
Recently, a friend who used to do some web design years ago approached me with some questions about getting back into front-end coding. She doesn’t have a programming background and, from what I understand, her experience in coding is limited to old-style HTML using tables and very little CSS.
She says she finds all the stuff associated with front-end development to be quite overwhelming. Well, she’s not the only one. I think we all feel frustrated at the amount of reading and research that’s needed to keep up with things in the industry.
I’ve recently been able to get a copy of three books that I thought I’d promote here.
Two of them (from O’Reilly) are relevant to developers who are working on high-end JavaScript-based applications and the other one (from No Starch Press) is a highly regarded book covering the topic of web application security.
As always, my collection of recently discovered links, tools, resources and libraries keeps growing.
To archive these for my own purposes, and to share them in bulk, here is a list of CSS, HTML, and related tools that might be of interest to readers.
About a week or so ago, I stumbled across the Startups, This Is How Design Works website. It’s a one-page site that uses a fixed drop-down menu at the top of the screen that collapses/expands in a “table of contents” style.
I thought it was kinda cool, so I wrote my own script to create this functionality, and I turned it into a jQuery plugin. Use the button below to view the demo, and read on for a description.
My “saved for later” link lists are getting bigger, so I thought I’d post another one of these little roundups. This time, I’m mostly focusing on some interesting guides and docs that I’ve found recently.
As always, I can’t necessarily vouch for the quality and accurateness of all of these sources, but they are all certainly worth a glance. Enjoy.
It’s sometimes intimidating and often ridiculous how quickly this industry moves forward. Just when you think you’ve reached “front-end developer” status, you realize there’s so much you still don’t know, or else only know superficially.
Others have expressed their views about our industry and how frustrating it feels, and still others feel that too much is asked of front-end developers.
