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We all know that online forms can be a hassle to have to fill out. Especially when there is nothing but a list of inputs presented without much guidance or feedback. But as form creators, there are many things we can do to improve the experience for the users filling out forms online. Using CSS # Using CSS, we have access to four states of a form input with pseudo-classes - :valid, :invalid, :requ

The box-shadow property is a CSS3 property that allows us to create shadow effects on almost any element, similar to the drop shadows we can create in design software. These shadow effects allow us to create the illusion of depth in an otherwise flat, 2-dimensional-looking page. The Syntax # The box-shadow property accepts a value made up of up to 5 different parts. box-shadow: offset-x offset-y b

Every week when I publish a new article to this site, I use MailChimp to send out an rss-based newsletter with the latest article to people subscribed. I designed and built the template for this newsletter and, as you would expect, it was quite a process. I was initially using Jekyll and going a lot of things manually, but the whole process was just really a mess. So, I have been working on creati

HTML5 was a major stepping stone for the concept of semantic code. It really championed the idea that how your document is structured and what tags you use should convey meaning to user agents. Among others, the <section> and <article> elements were introduced as a way to section your content in a more meaningful way than a regular <div>. But when should we use these new elements, and when is a re

We all know that accessibility is important. The problem is, it is not always clear what exactly we can do to make our sites more accessible. The Web Accessibility Initiative created some Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) targeted at us, web content developers, to create more accessible websites. The WCAG contain some very useful information, and so I decided to condense the very extensi

Following on from last week's article in which I briefly discussed css pixel sizing, I decided to look into the different ways you can declare your font size with CSS. Meet the Units # There are several different ways you can declare the size of a font in CSS. Broadly speaking, the units fall into one of two categories - absolute and relative. Absolute units are fixed and (mostly) relate to some p