Posts tagged “optimization & performance” 

I think Responsive Typography is such an invaluable book, I offered to write the Foreword and Jason Pamental (and O’Reilly) have been kind enough to let me reprint it here.

Lazy loading images is a great way to reduce page load, but some of the markup patterns for accomplishing it following progressive enhancement are a little tricky to manage in a CMS. Thankfully, we have plug-ins.

I used my time on stage in Düsseldorf this past May to talk about ways we can and should inject more empathy into our work.

A few years back, I wrote a little article celebrating the fact that you could actually apply image-replacement techniques to images themselves. Little did I know, six years later, it would become a useful technique for tackling high resolution displays.

I just finished Day 1 of Future of Web Design here in NYC and wanted to post my slides before I crashed for the night. Enjoy!

This past week, Kelly and I were in Brooklyn for the ExpressionEngine CodeIgniter conference. We had a great time, met some awesome people, and I got to talk about my favorite topic: progressive enhancement.

You may not have noticed, but we just turned this blog on it’s head, design-wise. Those of you browsing on something other than a desktop browser should now be enjoying a much better reading experience. Here’s what’s changed and how we did it.

From rethinking grid layouts to an HIV test that fits in your wallet and costs less than $1, we discovered a lot of great links last week.

Last week the U.S. teetered on the brink of economic collapse, but there were lots of goodies to think about and share too.