Ben Frain is a developer, author and occasional speaker. His blog of 10 years plus is at https://benfrain.com. A UI/UX Technical Lead at bet365.com, his books “Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3” and “Enduring CSS” are available in all good stores and “Enduring CSS” can be read online free at https://ecss.io
In this article, we dive into the possibilities of mechanical keyboards. The different layouts, switch types and even keycap material. Strap yourself in — this will be a deep dive!
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In UI/UX, a common pattern that’s needed time and again is that of a simple animated opening and closing panel, or ‘drawer’. You don’t need a library to make these. With some basic HTML/CSS and JavaScript, we’re going to learn how to do it ourselves.
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This article concludes a three-part series about the trials and tribulations of designing and writing a basic web application with vanilla JavaScript. In part one we covered the why, part two dealt mostly with the how and this part concludes by looking at how the project was drawn to a close and what was learned from the experience.
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In the first article of this series, your author, a JavaScript novice, had set themselves the goal of designing and coding a basic web app to organize team-based games. In this second part, we are going to concentrate on how the application ‘In/Out’ actually got made.
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You don’t need to be a Computer Science graduate or know a JavaScript framework to create a Progressive Web Application. With some HTML and CSS knowledge and basic competency with JavaScript, you have all the skills you need.
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