Icons! We see them all over the web, and they're essential to most pattern libraries and web design systems. I recently needed to implement such a system. It had to be non-prescriptive, scalable, and dynamically editable via CSS. The icons were to be used by multiple teams in many different applications, built with various frameworks and techniques. They needed to have the ability to be restyled, get cached, and be updated quickly and easily as more icons are added. Basically, the icon system needed to be really, really flexible. Challenge accepted.

certainlyakey starred una/svg-icon-system-boilerplate

SVG sprites & stacks galore — Node.js module that reads in a bunch of SVG files, optimizes them and creates SVG sprites in various flavours along with suitable stylesheet resources (e.g. CSS, Sass, LESS, Stylus, etc.)

px-em is a px to em tool which allows you to work out the em sizes from px. Just add the parent px size in the top box, required size in the bottom and you're done!

Ideally, we should all be developing our code in our own little space on our own little local server. This allows us to easily make changes without messing up production code or stepping over other's work. This is usually cost prohibitive so we're "forced" to use virtual machines to make this a reality.

The problem we face is that each developer needs to have a virtual machine that is setup exactly (or nearly exactly) like our production server. This requires a long list of configuration changes that need to be made on every machine. For example, install the apache package, update this configuration file, setup MySQL so you can access the databases remotely. Then we run into more problems when additional changes are needed because the developer has to take time out of their schedule to make them on each machine. There are also passwords that have to be remembered and /etc/host changes that need to be made. You'll be in even worse shape if the deployment consists of multiple VMs.

The primary goal of Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV) is to provide an approachable development environment with a modern server configuration.

VVV is ideal for developing themes and plugins as well as for contributing to WordPress core.

A simple GUI to set up virtual machines for Web development.

Ansible allows to control what's gonna be installed inside the VM (webserver, database, PHP, Drupal etc.).

Check unicode support for browsers & devices

Icons are everywhere. These “little miracle workers” (as John Hicks described them) help us reinforce meaning in the interfaces we design and build. Their popularity in web design has never been greater; the conciseness and versatility of pictograms in particular make them a lovely fit for displays large and small.

But icons on the web have had their fair share of challenges. They were time-consuming to prepare for every intended display size and color. When high-resolution displays hit the market, icons looked particularly low-res and blocky compared to the text they often accompanied.

So it’s really no wonder that icon fonts became such a hit. Icons displayed via @font-face were resolution-independent and customizable in all the ways we expected text to be. Sure, delivering icons as a typeface was definitely a hack, but it was also useful, versatile, and maybe even a little fun.

But now we need to stop. It’s time to let icon fonts pass on to Hack Heaven, where they can frolic with table-based layouts, Bullet-Proof Rounded Corners and Scalable Inman Flash Replacements. Here’s why…

Interestingly I found that there are two actions taken by the browser: firstly on the percentage itself - for example - Internet Explorer 7-11 will truncate any percentage to 2 decimal places, more modern browsers will round to a large number of decimal places.

Lint: Bad practices of CSS with explanations

This article is to serve as a guide for best practices when using icon fonts on the web. Because icon fonts are still in their infancy, browser support and new technologies are constantly being developed. Be sure to check back often for updated information. If you have any knowledge or experience to contribute, please tweet to @pictos or email drew@pictos.cc to have it included in this article.

The BBC HTML Accessibility Standards and BBC Mobile Accessibility Standards and Guidelines outline the requirements and recommendations necessary for ensuring the BBC’s digital products are accessible to the widest possible audience.

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Slideshows, sliders, carousels: whatever you call them, in terms of web design they are just evil. Do a quick Google search and you will see that most frontend developers and UX/UI designers can agree on this point and have been talking about it for years. But why do we still constantly see them? Part of the issue is that slideshows, especially in the hero region, are so ubiquitous that many clients see them as necessary and keep asking for them. They have essentially become a “home page standard.”

GZIP compression can be enabled for your website and saves at least 50% of your bandwidth usage. With this tool you can check if your web server is sending the correct GZIP enabled header. Enter your website URL below and we’ll test if the web server sends the GZIP command to your clients!

12 мая Россия присоединяется к международной системе автоматического обмена налоговой информацией. Теперь российская налоговая служба сможет получать данные об иностранных счетах россиян из десятков разных стран. Правда, ФНС придется подождать до 2018 года, когда соглашение начнет действовать.

Anybody who’s followed me or my work for any length of time will no doubt know that I’m a huge proponent of the BEM naming convention. What I’m about to talk about in this post is not an alternative or different naming convention to BEM, but an augmentation: small additions that level BEM up a notch. This extended BEM syntax has been dubbed BEMIT, as it borrows some paradigms and patterns from the (as yet unpublished) Inverted Triangle CSS architecture. BEM + ITCSS = BEMIT.