Jack Reichert

Fullstack Philosopher

Tag: css

  • Why I use Bootstrap, and what I get from it

    I previously wrote about the the Bootstrap front-end framework. In a nutshell my thoughts then were, it’s a useful tool but if something goes wrong, it’ll be a pain to troubleshoot. What I thought then still remains true, if you need to work outside their box, you’ll have a tough time. However, since I first…

  • Responsive Web Design – Solving the Pitfalls of `Display: None`

    One of the biggest complaints I’ve heard about Responsive Web Design is that sites built to be responsive take too long to load. We may have reached the age of broadband with our desktops but with bandwidth throttling and pay-per-byte mobile plans we really need to consider every pixel and every bit of code we…

  • A Small Thought About Adaptive Web Design vs Responsive Web Design

    Responsive Web Design, which is built on the principals of Graceful Degradation. Whereas… Adaptive Web Design is built on the principals of Progressive Enhancement. Whhahaatt? Graceful Degradation is when you build your site for modern browsers, then find solutions to make the experience passable for people using Internet Explorer or Mobile Browsers. Progressive Enhancement starts…

  • Revised Font Stack | Responsive Type Design

    After playing a bit with some of the hosted online font repositories I’ve come out frustrated. I see all over the place the same Web Safe Fonts. But there is a wealth of fonts installed on all modern computers that never see the light of our monitors due to the need to make all pages…

  • LessCSS and CSS3

    The Gist: Use mixins.less for easy implementation of CSS3 properties. It is on GitHub available to all. Background: Read the other day about Twitter announced Bootstrap from Twitter. Immediately I dug in, like I do whenever I see something cool, to see how it works. (I am excited to start playing with it and will…

  • The Many Facets of Content Pertaining to Responsive Web Design and Object Oriented CSS

    I recently stumbled across Ethan Marcotte’s article on A List Apart about Responsive Web Design and immediately bought the book, then ate it up. Reading the following two sentences were the Ah-HA experience of the book for me: “Rather than creating disconnected designs, each tailored to a particular device or browser, we should instead treat…

  • How to add a divider between menu items in css using only one selector

    A popular way for dividing between menu items, or elements in general is the single border. The problem with doing that is how do you not have the border after the last element? One solution is to add a border to all of the list-items then remove it from the last one: But this solution…