1. Web Design

Web Design Learning Guides

Learn some essential new web design skills with these learning guides. Each one has been specially designed to help you master an important topic, like web accessibility or using Figma for web design.

If you have questions about a web design concept or framework, these learning guides will answer them. The guide to Vue.js, for example, gives a concise explanation of what Vue is and how it works, while linking out to more in-depth tutorials and courses to help you learn more. You can find similar guides for Adobe XD, Foundation, and much more.

  1. Create the Perfect Carousel

    3 Posts
    Carousels are a staple of streaming and e-commerce sites. Too often, they suffer from poor accessibility, or are just plain dull. In this guide, we'll create a mouse, keyboard and touch-accessible carousel, using tweens, physics and input tracking to make it delightful to use.
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  2. Introduction to Webpack

    2 Posts
    Webpack takes all of your HTML, CSS, JavaScript and images, and cleverly works out all the various dependencies between them. When it's done, it gives you a nice tidy bundle of static assets ready for you throw online. In this introduction we'll learn the basics of Webpack and how to set-up your first project.
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  3. AJAX for Front-End Designers

    4 Posts
    This series aims to familiarize front-end designers and newbie developers with AJAX, an essential front-end technique. Loading content “asynchronously” is helpful for keeping the initial weight of a page low, instead presenting certain information only when the user specifically asks for it. 
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  4. Building a CMS

    2 Posts
    With the increase of use of a Virtual Private Server (VPS), it is more feasible now than ever to roll out your own Content Management System (CMS). In this series of tutorials, I will show you a simple flat-file system CMS in several of the most used web languages. This tutorial focuses on the structure, theming, and syncing of the CMS.
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