Facebook's using it. Twitter too. Slack. And, now iOS 10. The metadata on your website is getting more important.

It's been hammered over and over that, on the web, there is no fold. And rightly so. But lets break the rules and make one anyway.

I work on the internet, where I mostly build and maintain websites. Changes on the web are instantaneous. But recently, I worked on an iPhone app where this isn't the case. And it got me thinking about release cycles and their impact.

"That's a lot of markup for an image." The primary concern I've heard about responsive images since I wrote my responsive images article is that they're just too verbose. Things just got better. <fig…

Recently, I started getting away from the jQuery pattern of checking the length of an object before writing code. Instead, I've found myself wrapping my selector in jQuery's <code>each</code> method,…

For a recent project I worked on, the mock-up for the home page carousel's images were huge. 1900×696 pixels huge. Personally, I've never used responsive images before (long overdue), but I decided t…

I've long been a huge admirer of SVG (W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics). As retina screens proliferate, SVG allows web developers to create images that look great on all screens, regardless of the reso…

Yesterday, I stumbled into a conversation about mobile browsing with Peder Aadahl (of 168 Opportunities fame) and Curtis Jacob (of Hardy Boys Casefiles Encyclopedia fame), and it helped me articulate…

I concluded last year that mobile usage is increasing, and it's time to start thinking about your mobile customers. Now, with one in four visitors coming on a mobile or tablet device, and mobile usa…

I recently created a landing page for a Score Lab PPC campaign where potential customers either convert or bounce. If a customer converts, hooray!, I throw a little party in my head. But most potenti…

This past week, while researching for another post about IE8 and responsive design I'm thinking about writing, I pulled stats from a large number of Google Analytics profiles on all of the widths of …

So, you're building a new website. And you don't want to just throw your money away, so you'd like your shiny new website to last, what, about 5 years? That sounds reasonable. (Most 5-year-old websit…

"We have been using a Progressive Enhancement approach much more in relation to our web work. In a nutshell, this means we provide a good looking site on all browsers, then on more modern browsers, ...

The mobile user has been typecast.