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The Importance of Style Guides: Designing Systems, Not Pages featured post

The Importance of Style Guides: Designing Systems, Not Pages

The process of building a website is technically never done. Especially when said site is handed over to a client that will constantly be adding content. There is an invaluable tool that can alleviate a slew of future headaches that may take some considerable time and effort initially but will repay the designer tenfold in the long run. Of course, since you likely read the title, we are speaking of a Style Guide.

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Bootstrap 4 vs. Bootstrap 3 featured post

Bootstrap 4 vs. Bootstrap 3

Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web. This post will highlight the key differences, additions, and subtractions from version 3 to the soon-to-be released version 4.

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Fun with URLs in an Angular App featured post

Fun with URLs in an Angular App

This blog post is going to help you clean up your URLs when you’re developing a SPA (Single Page App). In addition, I’m going to show you how to enable a browser refresh when you do. And finally, I’m going to show you how to enable ASP.NET MVC’s ReturnUrl functionality when the target page is an Angular route. If any of these things interest you, then keep reading.

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Initial Takes on AngularJS vs. KnockoutJS from a .NET Developer featured post

Initial Takes on AngularJS vs. KnockoutJS from a .NET Developer

General use JavaScript libraries and frameworks have been revolutionizing web development for a decade now. Since the release of jQuery in 2006, JavaScript libraries have been quickly replacing traditional use of JavaScript. Today, more than 65% highest traffic sites on the web use jQuery. Since then, a number of other frameworks and libraries have been introduced. In this post I am going to concentrate on two such libraries, AngularJS and KnockoutJS, and provide some general comparisons from the perspective of a .NET developer who is fairly new to each.

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Web Accessibility Tips and Tricks featured post

Web Accessibility Tips and Tricks

Web accessibility is an important criteria for any website or web app, and is one that should be considered by all people involved: designs, developers, site owners, site contributors, site testers, and end users. The United Nations estimates that one in ten of the world’s people lives with a disability, and that number is expected to grow as the world’s population continues to grow older and live longer.

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Getting Set Up for Gulp: Visual Studio 2015 and the Task Runner featured post

Getting Set Up for Gulp: Visual Studio 2015 and the Task Runner

A development trend over the last few years has been utilizing JavaScript task runners to automate front-end development. Some of the big names that have gained widespread use are Gulp, Grunt, Cake, and Broccoli. This blog article will cover Gulp, which is a fast and plugin-rich task runner that is quick to get up and running.

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10 UX Facts Every CEO and CTO Should Know featured post

10 UX Facts Every CEO and CTO Should Know

Caring for user experience is becoming more common in the workplace and at the boardroom table. The following infographic includes ten facts about UX that should convince any CEO or CTO to improve of experience of their website, web app, or mobile app.

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The Learning Games: Teaching Code Through Games featured post

The Learning Games: Teaching Code Through Games

Remember when you were learning how to type on a computer keyboard? I bet you played a game, or several, to hone your skills and learn how to type faster, am I right? Well improving your typing skills isn’t the only thing learning games are used for.

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