Hello everyone and welcome to an early version of the RWD Weekly Newsletter due to the long Easter Weekend.
The past few weeks I've been having fun working on a different medium with Smashing Magazine to produce these conference notebooks. Whenever I get a chance to work 'offline', it brings new ideas on how I might deal with an online problem in a slightly different way, or approach it from a different angle. If you ever get the chance to work on something outside of your day job I encourage you to grab the change with both hands and see where it leads you.
Off to the links. | | Headline Go back to basics with the process of how you go through a website redesign
An interesting take on the growing craze of creating newsletters. What do you think? Would you rather - Pay weekly to receive a paid-for only newsletter?
- Pay weekly to receive a free newsletter, but you're offering support?
- Receive a free newsletter, but have sponsors within the content?
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In addition to individual plans, Frontend Masters offers group memberships for organizations, businesses, or schools. | | Articles FT Labs go through the process of making a cross-browser/device crossword. It's live on FT now so check it out on your computer, mobile, tablet... all very well done. The only problem now is that I don't know any of the answers ;)
Henri uses BigQuery to review sites load times with a Basketball focus. I wasn't aware that you could do this kind of stuff with BigQuery, I'm hoping to spend a bit of time over Easter testing some stuff out.
If you're like me and don't "get" Web Pack then this article is for you. It explains the reason you end up wanting a JS packer, and then how it works and where you get the best benefits
Tutorials A timely reminder as I'm moving into a new website build where the client wants to display LOTS of similar information about a range of different products.
If you want to make your emails more visually engaging here is everything you need to know. Is there anything on this list that you think we should be doing?
Matt Stow looks at the performance difference between using Sass to handle variables or the CSS variables.
In this tutorial, you'll be introduced to Webpack and shown how to configure it for performance optimization in your web application. Check out the repo to get the code.
Getting better insight into how to make something like a carousel ARIA ready. You can take the course today. Head over to the course page, and you'll become a Bootstrap 4 master within an hour.
Tools & Resources A simple resource for finding and trying variable fonts
Umar walks through Soylent.com and looks at how you can investigate any website and identify performance issues (and how to fix them).
This is essentially an e-Book in the form of a website that explains what Device Detection is and its major use-cases. It's very informative for whoever wants to understand what device detection is.
Here's an ultimate list of colour-related apps and tools curated for you by the Futuramo team. Need colour theme inspiration, they've got you covered. Need to create the perfect CSS gradient, they've got your back.
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CodePen Thanks to Chris for pointing this out to me, this interactive overview of the Solar System is built entirely with CSS and HTML, no JS required. This is a great example of what is possible with CSS alone, however in production I would certainly pose the question of whether the experience requires the same level of interactivity without any JS. I'm super impressed how much could be done.
| | That's all from me this week. If you've read something interesting, or even better yet if you've written about something you've done please hit reply and share the love/knowledge/link. Happy Easter!
Cheers,
Justin. | | | |
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