Avoiding the FOUC
For several years I’ve used Paul Irish’s technique for avoiding the FOUC caused by JavaScript kicking in. I’ve recently changed to a slightly improved version.
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Specificity, SMACSS and WordPress
At the June WordPress Melbourne Meetup, I spoke about CSS Specificity, SMACSS and WordPress. I had a great time, the video and slides are below.
There are no ninjas here
At Floate, we employ three developers. There is one full time developer and two designers who can also develop. None of us are ninjas. Nor are we rock stars. Continue reading at the Floate blog.
Dear Drupal: Season’s Greetings. Love, Smashing WordPress.
Every day I work with WordPress in one way or another. My Twitter feed is full of WordPress types, and I’m a regular at my local WordPress meetup. I’m a WordPress fan. The White House hosts a number of Web developers who use Drupal every day. Their Twitter feeds are probably full of Drupal types, […]
Faux Columns Revistited
It’s time to update Dan Cederholm’s faux columns to take advantage of CSS3 gradients and reduce http requests.
The Developer’s Guide To Conflict-Free JavaScript And CSS In WordPress
Imagine you’re playing the latest hash-tag game on Twitter when you see this friendly tweet: You might want to check your #WP site. It includes two copies of jQuery. Nothing’s broken, but loading time will be slower. Continue reading at Smashing Magazine.
WordPress Theme Elements
When producing a theme, we try not to limit the website owner’s options within the WordPress Dashboard. The owner may wish to enable an option down the track and be disappointed to find they can’t.
How we do IE Hacks
We’ve recently changed the way we do IE hacks at Soupgiant. For years we were using conditional comments to load separate CSS files.
Big Red Framework on WordPress.org
Big Red, the Soupgiant WordPress framework, has been added to the WordPress.org theme repository.
Maintaining Link Focus
Anyone who has attempted to navigate a web page using the keyboard will have experienced sites that remove the default a:focus style without adding in a replacement.