Posts by Bryan Hoffman
Don’t Minify on the Fly
In the name of speeding up your site you may hear that minifying your CSS is both awesome and easy. I’ll agree that it’s very easy, and in the name of speed I can concede a bit to the awesomeness. But if you’re using @media or @font-face in your stylesheets, be wary of automatic minifying…
Read MoreResponsive Web Design – The Book
A Book Apart released Responsive Web Design today and I picked up a copy. I’m excited to get a better understanding of the whole responsive web picture – but I’m especially interested in hearing Ethan’s ideas on flexible grids and images (an area I’m still foggy about). I’ve read two other A Book Apart releases…
Read MoreDesigning for Mobile First
I’ve recently been involved in a project with a company who had interest in my work with mobile design with media queries. Before I began we talked what tools we wanted to use to create clean, lean code that worked across as many devices as possible. I of course suggested using HTML5 Boilerplate as they…
Read MoreGo Mobile with Responsive Design
Designing for the web has always been like catching a greased chameleon – as soon as you get a good grip everything changes and you’re looking for the elusive lizard on some new technological rock. Varying screen resolutions, user preferences, and browser inconsistencies are just a few of the variables that have made designing for…
Read MoreSpigot featured on Mediaqueri.es
Media Queries has kindly featured spigotdesign.com in their gallery of sites that use media queries for responsive web design. It’s a great place to go for inspiring designs that use @media in their development. I’ll be writing more about what that means in the near future. Take a look at the latest, or spigot’s feature…
Read MoreUse Social Media the Smart Way
Blog First Social Media websites play an important part in marketing your business – there’s no denying the power they have in getting the word out on your brand. But how much time and effort (and capital) should you spend on them? And which ones should you be focusing on? Focus on Numero Uno For…
Read MoreThe Admin Bar and Absolute Positioning
The latest release of WordPress (3.1) comes with a new ‘Admin Bar’ – a small area at the top of your site that displays (for logged in users) quick links and easy access to some of the most used portions of WordPress. If you happen to have absolutely positioned elements that take their position off…
Read MoreNibbler: Awesome Website Testing
There’s a lot of ways to test and benchmark your website, but few are as fun as Nibbler. And it’s free! What does Nibbler do? Nibbler will go through 5 pages of which ever site you specify and test them on a range of relevant criteria. Once it’s finished you’ll get a nice, visual report…
Read MoreHow to get Google to Like You
So you want Google to like you, eh? You want to be at the top? Well good, because the top is a great place to be. It’s not easy to get there, though – so you’ve got to be prepared. It’s not rocket science either, thankfully, and it doesn’t take an army or a boatload…
Read MoreWordPress Users: Install Jetpack
Since it first came out I’ve been installing the WordPress.com Stats plugin on nearly every site I build. It’s a very popular plugin because it provides a quick overview of site traffic and related information – all from the WordPress Dashboard. A few months back I’d heard rumors that Automattic was working on a replacement…
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