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. 

If there’s one thing you really need to know about PostCSS, it’s that you should learn what it is and how to use it ASAP.

During this short series, follow Jim Nielsen as he builds a simple web app based on the iTunes API. The app built during this series has a very specific use, but the principles and practical examples covered will arm you with a set of skills you can apply to many other projects.

TimelineMax is part of the GreenSock Animation Platform and helps you animate for the web. Using TimelineMax you can control animation sequences of “anything JavaScript can touch” (such as CSS properties and SVG) though you don’t need to be a JavaScript God to use it! 

Bootstrap 3, arguably the most popular front-end framework available today, brought with it some significant changes from version 2. We recently had the opportunity to collaborate with Syncfusion to offer you one of their popular eBooks, Bootstrap 3 Succinctly, as a Learning Guide. Follow along as Peter Shaw takes you through the most important differences, introduces new features, and gives you a firm understanding of how Bootstrap 3 works.

In your day-to-day HTML coding you'll undoubtedly use <div> elements, hopefully even <section>, <aside> and <article> tags where more appropriate. You'll describe semantic relationships between headings using <h1> through to <h6>. Your form inputs are probably of the correct type, dictating whether entered data should be a valid email address, or number - but there are loads of obscure HTML tags and attributes which you might not be familiar with. Some are simple, others are still in development and the occasional one is just downright weird! This collection of tutorials and quick tips will get you up to speed with some of the more unusual HTML tags.