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Using icon fonts

When I talked with some people about icons fonts they seemed surprised because it’s a very easy feature that improves the performance of the page, preventing to load an image, or images. For example, sprites.Not many people use icon fonts. …

December 27, 2016
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CSS naming conventions

Naming convention is one of the most difficult activities of a developer. It helps to understand our code, and CSS is not an exception. Learning to think in objects is a helpful practice to improve the names of elements. I …

December 27, 2016
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Social share links

The easy way to create social buttons is with scripts that can overhead your website, affecting the performance and the user experience. You can prevent and save HTTP requests creating your own methods. In this article I will show how …

December 27, 2016
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Pure HTML CSS checkboxes

Unstyled checkboxes do not look good in some websites. Depends on the design, we need to style it by different way. One nice approach is to use only CSS3 and HTML. I will show how to do it. The method …

December 27, 2016
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Pacman in pure CSS3

Today, with CSS3, we can create interesting animations with keyframes. In this article I will explain how to create a Pacman animation step by step. Is very easy and funny. Animating PacmanYou need to split the Pacman in two vertical …

December 27, 2016
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Npm as a build tool

It’s normal to use Gulp, Grunt, Broccoli or others as a front-end build tool. I tend to use it, but sometimes I think: It’s necessary to add another dependency in your project? I read about npm scripts and I start …

December 27, 2016
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jQuery tips

Today I want to share with you some jQuery tips you should know. I recognize that I am stopping using jQuery, but I am sure this article helps lots of people. Preload imagesIf you have lot of images that are …

December 27, 2016
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Using Bower

To be honest, my first experience with Bower was bad. I though “I prefer download and unzip the file” … very wrong! Bower can help us managing our packages, for example install Bootstrap, jQuery, Backbone, etc. Also it can upgrade …

December 27, 2016
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Clean your Drupal html code with Fences

When I use Drupal, I always try to delete all the unnecessary divs and classes of panels, views and more. I understand that Drupal provides much code to simplify our work: lots of classes give us more opportunity to theme …

December 23, 2016
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