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CSS Inheritance, The Cascade And Global Scope: Your New Old Worst Best Friends   As luck would have it, there is already a technology, called CSS, which is designed specifically to solve this problem. Using CSS, I can propagate styles that cross the borders of my HTML components, ensuring a consistent design with minimal effort . This is largely thanks to two key CSS features: inheritance, the cascade (the “C” in CSS). Despite these features enabling a DRY , efficient way to style web documents and despite them being the very reason CSS exists, they have fallen remarkably out of favor. From CSS methodologies such as BEM and Atomic CSS through to programmatically encapsulated CSS modules, many are doing their best to sidestep or otherwise suppress these features. This gives developers more control over their CSS, but only an autocratic sort of control based on frequent intervention. I’m going to revisit inheritance, the cascade and scope here with respect to...

  The Road To Resilient Web Design In the world of web design, we tend to become preoccupied with the here and now. In “ Resilient Web Design “, Jeremy Keith emphasizes the importance of learning from the past in order to better prepare ourselves for the future. So, perhaps we should stop and think more beyond our present moment? The following is an excerpt from Jeremy’s web book.   Design adds clarity. Using colour, typography, hierarchy, contrast, and all the other tools at their disposal, designers can take an unordered jumble of information and turn it into something that’s easy to use and pleasurable to behold. Like life itself, design can win a small victory against the entropy of the universe, creating pockets of order from the raw materials of chaos. GS WEB TECHNOLOGIES  Taking Your Talent To The Web Link When the web began to conquer the world in the 1990s, designers started migrating from paper to pixels. David Siegel’s Creating Kill...

Free Geometric UI Icons With A Fresh And Futuristic Twist (100 Icons, 6 Formats)   How about an icon set that gives your UI designs just that finishing touch they need? One that stands out while keeping the design clear and legible? Vincent Le Moign spent two years on designing such a set, and we are very happy to feature part of it as a freebie today. The EGO icon collection shines with its well-balanced, geometric style — perfect to make a bold statement without being obtrusive. To prepare you for nearly everything that an app or web interface could ask for, EGO covers tech- and office-themed icons, just like commerce, transport, nature, and leisure motifs. 100 icons in total that can be resized and customized to your liking (AI, EPS, SVG, Sketch, Iconjar, and PDF versions are available). Black and duo-tone blue versions are already on board when you download the set. Please note that this icon set is free for both private and commercial use . No attri...

10 Must Know Off-page SEO Techniques for 2017 Search Engine Optimization is one of the techniques used to improve traffic to a website by obtaining a high-rank placement in the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) such as Google, Bing, Yahoo and others. SEO has two techniques to improve website position in SERP called ON-Page SEO and OFF-Page SEO : ON-Page SEO: It refers to all the things that we do within our website such as title, description, content, image, keyword stuffing, internal linking, etc. Overall the on-page technique means structuring or building your website to be search engine friendly. Off-Page SEO: Off-page SEO will help make your website popular on the internet, so you can get more visibility. With the on-page techniques we can get visibility in search engines. But only off-page SEO techniques will help improve your website position in SERP. Take a look at the list of top 10 best off-page SEO techniques now in tre...

  How To Submit Your Website And Get Listed On Google, Bing & Yahoo How do I get my web pages to appear on the search engine results pages? It is vitally important to get your website listed on the major search engines such as Google because it is by far the best way of attracting free, targeted traffic to your site. This website gets most of its traffic from the search engines who send visitors to our web pages. In this post, we’ll be looking at how to submit your site to each of the major search engines and learn what they look for on your web pages to help you rank higher. Knowing this will enable you to improve your content and overall website by implementing some search engine optimization ( SEO ) methods. How Do Search Engines Rank Your Site? Now, before we look at how you go about submitting your website to the major search engines, it’s important that you learn the fundamentals of what they look for when ranking your website/blog. The higher y...