Load the fonts first for page speed

November 21, 2021 at 1:14 pm | blabbing, Design, Programming, web.

To increase page speed for blocking font rendering and to reduce the font rendering time when the page loads on your site, add your fonts as a preload at the top of your page. This may seem counter intuitive to load an asset ahead of time for page speed, but it makes sense in two… Read more »

Stop animating all your pages

January 6, 2021 at 8:25 pm | blabbing, Design, web.

You know that feeling when you get to a site and there isn’t much there and then you start to scroll and POW everything comes flying into the page in all directions. Yeah. Stop doing that.

Mobile first or age before beauty

December 10, 2014 at 11:36 pm | Design, SASS, web.

Mobile first for email. Oh course. Right? There are more mobile devices accessing your content, why wouldn’t it be mobile first? Well because mobile doesn’t need any help. It is the faster more nimble sibling to it’s slower desktop and browser based elders. Mobile first means that the styles in the head are for desktop…. Read more »

Youtube iFrame embeds not working on iOS devices – FIX!

March 23, 2012 at 10:08 am | Design, Programming, web.

Seems like a lot of people are having problems with youtube iFrame embeds working correctly on iOS devices (iPhone, iPad). Sometimes they will work, other times they wont. I have seen a bunch of different fixes for this but nothing that worked consistently for me. The problem seems to come from the extra parameters that… Read more »

Mac Lion Apps

January 5, 2012 at 3:43 pm | Apple, blabbing, Design, web.

I love the new Mac Lion operating system. The thing that I can’t figure out is why Apple decided to make Address Book and iCal have these old funky looking UIs to them. Apple Apps Page Take a look at the new Mac mail and it’s all nice, gray, minimalistic icons, clean. Same with Safari,… Read more »