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November 24, 2014143: Rapidfire 40
This week it’s another RAPID-FIRE!!! Nothing but web standards southern gentlemen and hot question and answer madness!
We talked about (roughly in order):
Q & A:
2:37 A question about responsive images: I just came across this CSS approach to specifying a “focal point” of an image so when the browser resizes the image is cropped and it’s location is adjusted so that a specified point stays in the visible area. What do you think? Are there other similar solutions you like better?
5:40 I’m working on a refactor of a site I built a while ago. In that site, I’m loading a font file just for the logo which seems like it might be unneeded page bloat. My question is: is it worth the time subsetting a font for only the characters I need, or would a better approach be some sort of accessible svg?
11:40 I came across thegrid.io and watched their video. I love the concept, but how do you think this will effect the web design industry?
18:30 Is there a good replacement for css resets?
24:33 I’m wondering what your experiences are with hacking attempts and what methods you use to secure your sites and servers; specifically for WordPress sites?
38:01 I recently started to use SVGs instead of an iconfont. However I’m still struggling with the right technique. What are your thoughts on that?
44:11 I have a situation where people are creating and editing content in Google Docs, then pasting the content over to the CMS. Sometimes Docs behaves and doesn’t include a bunch of inline styles, sometimes it isn’t so nice. What is the best/most efficient way to override these inline styles?
51:56 Why isn’t there a good text editor for OS X ? I’m so tired of these multi-platform editors like Atom, Sublime, and Brackets. Are there any better options?
Sponsors:
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36:05 lynda.com – The best online learning resource. New courses are posted every single day. Check out some super great courses like:
Audio & Music Production
Logic Pro X
InDesign Typography with Nigel French
Writing for the Web with Chris Nodder
Selling on the Amazon Marketplace with Peter Kent
And so much more! Learn all the things! Get a free 7 day trial now!
Show Links:
Focal-Point
thegrid.io
SmugMug
Normalize.css
Cloudflare
Atom
Sublime Text
Brackets
Coda 2.5
Seti UI Theme
1 hr 4 min
November 17, 2014142: With Rachel Smith
This week we’re joined by Rachel Smith. Rachel is currently doing animation/motion design for the web at Active Theory.
We talked about (roughly in order):
Q & A:
16:16 I’ve been playing around with requestAnimationFrame in an attempt to create a smoother, more efficient animated ScrollTo effect for various web projects I work on. In some modern browsers, I’m getting some stuttering at the beginning of or during the animation. Any tips on how to create smoother animations using rAF or relevant resources for this type of problem?
24:08 I wondered if you guys had any good references about animated charts and statistics? I would need to be able to have nice transitions on graphs like the classic google analytics type chart (visit/time) and also other charts like pie charts and so on. What tech would be good for this?
32:54 Do you have a helpful tip on understanding the whole WebSockets ‘pub-sub’ concept?
46:00 I am front end web developer with php experience but have never created a native phone application. Would a program like PhoneGap or ionic be a good solution for this problem or would the “hybrid” app have performance issues?
53:11 I want to know why Photoshop has become an industry standard when it comes to creating layouts for web design. What are some of the benefits of using Photoshop for layouts?
Sponsors:
22:22 Environments for Humans: Javascript Summit 2014 – Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in JavaScript and jQuery for an all-new, three-day online conference, the JavaScript Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop November 18-November 20, 2014 from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
Join some of the Web’s most experienced JavaScript professionals as they share experiences culled from working on sites big and small. Get the tips and techniques that use frameworks to their fullest. Learn from the pros how to tackle Javascript difficulties head-on with proven methods in use by some of the most popular sites on the Web.
Use coupon code SHOPTALK for 20% off. Grab your tickets now!
42:27 Adobe Typekit – Typekit is a subscription font service that brings thousands of fonts from foundry partners into one library for quick browsing, easy use on the web or on your desktop, and endless typographic inspiration.
Typekit now brings beautiful type to your desktop with the power of Adobe Creative Cloud. Choose the fonts you need, and then use them wherever you need them—whether that’s on the web, synced to your desktop, or both.
Check out their typography practice page, and then sign up for a free trial!
Show Links:
Rachel Smith
Rachel on Twitter
Active Theory
WitnessGotham.com
D3.js
datavis
Snap SVG
Chart.js
Nate Silver
Socket.io
Node.js
PubNub
Iconic
PhoneGap
Ionic
Cordova
Appcelerator
Typescript
CodePen
Creative Cloud Extract
1 hr 7 min
November 11, 2014141: With Marcy Sutton
This week we’re joined by Marcy Sutton. Marcy is a interactive developer at Substantial in Seattle. We take a deep dive into web components, accessibility, Angular JS, AJAX, ARIA, and more!
We talked about (roughly in order):
Q & A:
17:56 Do you know of any standard way that accessibility-aware web devs will test whether their ARIA-related efforts have proven successful? Is there some screen-reader or browser-extension of choice (or just your personal recommendation)?
26:00 Our client’s accessibility consultant is telling them that they must have valid HTML in order to be WCAG 2.0 compliant. Is that true?
30:46 With the prevalence of front-end frameworks like AngularJS, there seems to be a rise in logging in via AJAX instead of a traditional post back. I’m all for AJAX in almost every case on a web app, but when it comes to login/logout, I feel the perceived load time is much better for a traditional post back. I haven’t done any A/B testing on this with real users yet, but I’d love to hear your thoughts!
42:19 My question is concerning aria attributes placed on icon fonts, and the accessibility issues that can arise if you use the wrong one. For the past year or so at the agency I work at, we’ve been using icon fonts and slapping an aria-hidden=”true” on all of them. Recently I learned of the aria-label and aria-labelled by attributes. Dave, since you’re the accessibility master, what’s the best and/or proper way to use these different attributes?
54:30 What do you guys think about minifying html?
Sponsors:
24:25 Environments for Humans: Javascript Summit 2014 – Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in JavaScript and jQuery for an all-new, three-day online conference, the JavaScript Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop November 18-November 20, 2014 from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
Join some of the Web’s most experienced JavaScript professionals as they share experiences culled from working on sites big and small. Get the tips and techniques that use frameworks to their fullest. Learn from the pros how to tackle Javascript difficulties head-on with proven methods in use by some of the most popular sites on the Web.
Use coupon code SHOPTALK for 20% off. Grab your tickets now!
41:05 lynda.com – The best online learning resource. New courses are posted every single day. Check out some super great courses like:
Audio & Music Production
Logic Pro X
JavaScript for Web Designers
Creative GoPro Photography and Video Techniques
Up and Running with Genesis for WordPress
Creating a One-Page Scrollable Website with Adobe Muse
So much more. Learn all the things! Get a free 7 day trial now!
Show Links:
Marcy Sutton
Marcy Sutton on Twitter
Substantial
Chrome ExtensionAccessibility Developer Tools
Web Aim
Tenon.io
Drink Distiller
Cascading Attribute Sheets
1 hr 3 min
November 04, 2014140: With Justin Sainton
This week we’re joined by Justin Sainton. Justin founded Zao, Portland’s premier WordPress Agency. He is also the Lead Dev for WP eCommerce, and a WordPress Core Contributor, so we joined him for a Halloween-themed deep dive into some spooky questions about WordPress development!
Warning: this episode contains some spookily-scary soundbytes; listener discretion is advised.
We talked about (roughly in order):
Errors and Omissions
19:22 Blurry text after 3D transform? You need to use only 2D transform or hide, request prop, show. Thanks to Matt Lockyer for clearing that up!
20:12 Here’s that jQuery plugin for ‘responsive cropping’. Dynamically crop images to fill available space without cutting out the image’s subject. Great for full-screen images. Thanks to Zsolt Pentz for sharing that!
Q & A:
22:06 How much does A/B Testing help in eCommerce, and which tools or plugins do you use to A/B Test?
34:30 I’m working with someone on a WordPress site to clean it up and install a new theme. Here’s the problem: they’ve got hundreds of posts and pages chock full of inline styling… and there are so many s! It’s bad. Please tell me there’s a good way to strip all the cruft from these posts and pages in bulk!
38:20 I was thinking about managing CSS / JS for WordPress (as you guys were talking about recently), and avoiding extra http requests. This plugin ( AutoOptimize) may be worth a look.
41:35 I have a question about Bower and WordPress. I installed Codekit 2 and fiddled a little with Bower components, which I haven’t done before, and I installed WordPress, all good except that the WordPress files are in the bower_components folder. I’m pretty sure you are not supposed to use bower_components folder as the root for your WP projects, so what do I do? Do I take it out? In that case, what’s the point of using Bower to install WordPress?!
47:46 I’ve been working on overhauling our site using WordPress, WooCommerce and the woo canvas theme with a child theme. I’ve been nothing but happy with WooCommerce, however, I suspect Woo Canvas may be sacrificing performance for the sake of convenience. Other than saving me development time is there any security or performance advantages to using a child theme or will a lean custom theme perform better and be just as secure?
57:00 I have questions relating to WordPress and theme/plugin functionality in response to this article. While I sort of agree with the thesis of the argument I have a hard time wanting to use any plugins to create taxonomies or CPTs. What are your thoughts on this?
Sponsors:
28:51 Environments for Humans: SASS Summit – A full-day deep dive into Sass–setting up from workflow foundations to learning the cutting edge Sass stuff coming in version 3.4. Join us for a day of Sass experts discussing the state of Sass and deep diving the features that make our workflow easier: from building style guides, coding complex RWD layouts, and much more. Bring the experts to your desktop November 6th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
Use discount code SHOPTALK for 20% off! Get your tickets for the 2014 SASS Summit now!
45:39 Media Temple – For years, Media Temple has been the premium web hosting choice of more designers, developers, and creative professionals than any other platform. It’s all managed through their own simple, custom control panel, and backed by Media Temple’s famous 24/7 live support. Virtual Private Server solutions are also available with their DV and DV Developer hosting plans. Also, check out their new managed WordPress hosting which includes 3 WordPress installs with unlimited bandwidth!
Special discount for ShopTalk listeners, use promo code SHOPTALK for 25% off your first month of web hosting. Go to mediatemple.net and enter your promo code upon signup.
Show Links:
Justin Sainton on Twitter
Zao.is
WooCommerce
WP e-Commerce
WP Polls
Contact Form 7
CSS-Tricks: Taking Control of the CSS/JS that WordPress Plugins Load
Ask Dr. Web with Jeffrey Zeldman:
Help! My Portfolio Sucks
Pippin Williamson
Optimizely
Visual Website Optimizer
Google Experiments
Codekit
Bower
Woo Canvas
iThemes Exchange
Inbox by Gmail
1 hr 6 min
October 29, 2014139: RapidFire 39
This week it’s another RAPID-FIRE!!! Nothing but mouth guns and hot question and answer madness!
We talked about (roughly in order):
Q & A:
8:16 Is there a reason to use single quotes instead of double quotes when writing HTML?
11:45 I started doing work (with a group of fellow students) for a client 6 months ago, and they keep coming back with more work and changes to the site. I still haven’t been paid for the original work, and I can’t keep working for free, but I really need the money (if they ever pay). What should I do?
20:12 I work for an agency that hires a new developer every 9-12 months or so (with 5 currently on staff). Besides resources, what kinds of things can we put in place to not only make that a more seamless transition, but also for us to perform as a more cohesive unit?
26:10 My question is about rendering quality of text when the CSS transform scale is applied to the container. After scale is applied the text looks blurry. I tried using some of the fixes (like text stroke, for example), and it’s a little better but still not very sharp. Any suggestions?
36:00 What are the latest developments for dealing with the responsive image “art direction” problem?
44:59 How do web designers and developers handle the hosting of their own sites and their clients’ sites without it becoming a logistical nightmare?
51:20 The other day I saw a stack overflow question where somebody posted a PSD of a share button their designer had given them, and asked for someone to make it work using pure CSS. What are your thoughts on the ethics of outsourcing to stackoverflow?
Sponsors:
17:17 Environments for Humans Online Conferences
UX Future Summit – Rosenfeld Media and Environments for Humans bring together some of the Web’s most notable experts in for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the UX Futures Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop November 5th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
SASS Summit – A full-day deep dive into Sass–setting up from workflow foundations to learning the cutting edge Sass stuff coming in version 3.4. Join us for a day of Sass experts discussing the state of Sass and deep diving the features that make our workflow easier: from building style guides, coding complex RWD layouts, and much more. Bring the experts to your desktop November 6th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
Use discount code SHOPTALKSHOW for 25% off! Get your tickets for the UX Future Summit and the SASS Summit now!
33:57 lynda.com – The best online learning resource. New courses are posted every single day. Check out some super great courses like:
Audio & Music Production
Logic Pro X
JavaScript for Web Designers
Creative GoPro Photography and Video Techniques
Up and Running with Genesis for WordPress
Creating a One-Page Scrollable Website with Adobe Muse
And so much more. Learn all the things! Get a [free 7 day trial now]!(http://lynda.com/shoptalk)!
Show Links:
Geek Mental Health Week
Mental Illness Can Affect Anyone (tweet)
Single vs Double quotes (‘ vs “)
CodePen Meetups
Vagrant
Pattern Libraries
Dave’s Article “Delivering Mini-Bootstraps”
Dave’s Tranform Scale CodePen
A Guide to SVG Animations (SMIL)
Get a free 14 day CodePen Pro Trial
Uncle Dave’s Ol’ Padded Box
JS Face Detection
CSS Tricks: Figuring Out Responsive Images
Picturefill: A responsive image polyfill
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1 hr
October 20, 2014138: with Jared Spool
This week we’re joined by Jared Spool. Jared is the founder of User Interface Engineering, the largest usability research organization of its kind in the world. He also co-founded Center Centre, a new school creating the next generation of industry-ready UX designers.
We talked about (roughly in order):
Q & A:
32:38 How do you feel about questionnaires being sent to clients? Do you think it decreases the level of personality / closeness with your client?
46:39 Have you ever used any prototyping tool like “Fireworks” or “Sketch”? And if so, what is the best tool you’ve came across?
Sponsors:
24:54 – Environments for Humans
UX Future Summit – Rosenfeld Media and Environments for Humans bring together some of the Web’s most notable experts in for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the UX Futures Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop November 5th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
SASS Summit – A full-day deep dive into Sass–setting up from workflow foundations to learning the cutting edge Sass stuff coming in version 3.4. Join us for a day of Sass experts discussing the state of Sass and deep diving the features that make our workflow easier: from building style guides, coding complex RWD layouts, and much more. Bring the experts to your desktop November 6th from 9AM to 4PM (CT). Use discount code SHOPTALKSHOW for 25% off!
40:40 Adobe Typekit – Typekit is a subscription font service that brings thousands of fonts from foundry partners into one library for quick browsing, easy use on the web or on your desktop, and endless typographic inspiration.
Typekit now brings beautiful type to your desktop with the power of Adobe Creative Cloud. Choose the fonts you need, and then use them wherever you need them—whether that’s on the web, synced to your desktop, or both.
Check out their typography practice page, and sign up for a free trial!
Show Links:
Jared Spool
Jared on Twitter
Center Centre
Shoptalk FAQ
Google Glass
Apple Newton
Rosenfeld Media Books
Source Han Sans
Fireworks
Sketch
Balsamiq
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies)
Paper Prototyping
UI Conf
1 hr
October 13, 2014137: Rapidfire 38
This week it’s another RAPIDFIRE!!! Nothing but ray guns and hot question and answer madness!
We talked about (roughly in order):
Q & A:
3:26 For responsive menus, do you use a similar plugin on each site, or do you build custom menus for each site? Are there any responsive menu plugins that you would recommend?
11:12 When editing pre-built wordpress templates for a company I work for I often find myself using display:none to get rid of content that the client doesn’t want on the page. It definitely feels like a dirty fix, what are your thoughts on this?
17:58 I’m trying to develop a horizontally-scrolling page layout for a website I’m working on. How would you guys tackle this sort of challenge these days?
25:11 I’m curious if you’ve ever been part of a team where you or someone else on the team introduced a technology or process change or maybe like a paradigm shift in how things needed to be done. What were the toughest challenges?
35:25 Stacy K. wins tickets to SASS Summit!
38:47 I need to create an array of arrays of images for my banners. How do I put that together?
45:38 What do you suggest a beginner do in order to continue not only learning but implementing new ideas?
50:08 I’ve been implementing AJAX on my Rails 4 site with jquery’s $.load() function and using window.history.pushState() to update url’s in the browser’s address form. I am having issues with the page staying the same when I use the back button. The url responds correctly in the address bar, however the page does not go back to it’s previous state. I’ve read about a few javascript libraries being able to deal with this. What are y’all’s thoughts on the subject?
56:29 We’re considering moving a WordPress site with a few hundred posts, and growing, over to a static site generator like Jekyll. I’m wondering, how scalable is it? Is there a limit? Do things slow down?
Sponsors:
15:40 E4H: Sass Summit – A full-day deep dive into Sass – setting up from workflow foundations, to learning the cutting edge Sass stuff coming in version 3.4. Bring the experts to your desktop November 6th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
You should also check out the JS Summit: Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in JavaScript and jQuery for an all-new, three-day online conference, the JavaScript Summit 2013! Bring the experts to your desktop November 19-November 21, 2013 from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
Discount code 25% off w/ SHOPTALKSHOW code. Recordings come with registration! So, if you miss a session or can’t make the day, you can watch them later at your own time when they become available. Grab your tickets now!
33:01 lynda.com – The best online learning resource. New courses are posted every single day. Check out some super great courses like:
SVG
JavaScript for Web Designers
Creative GoPro Photography and Video Techniques
Up and Running with Genesis for WordPress
Creating a One-Page Scrollable Website with Adobe Muse
So much more. Learn all the things! Get a [free 7 day trial now]!(http://lynda.com/shoptalk)!
Show Links:
Aaron Dowd – Podcast Editor
ShopTalk Show FAQ
MeanMenu jQuery Plugin
Responsive Nav JS Plugin
How To Create a Horizontally Scrolling Site
Brad Frost: Designing in the Open
A Better Back Button
Jekyll
Jekyll Import
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1 hr 7 min
October 07, 2014136: Rapidfire 37
This week it’s another RAPID-FIRE!!! Nothing but ray guns and hot question and answer madness!
We talked about (roughly in order):
Q & A:
3:08 I hear a lot of people asking about mentorships so I made a site called HackMentor for people to post looking for mentors / mentees. I wanted to learn MVC so I thought it would be a fun project to get the concepts down.
5:03 I use Sass and Compass with Singularity and Breakpoint. I’ve been looking into integrating Grunt into my workflow but I’m having trouble finding a good solution to managing the Sass / Compass gems / plugins and the NPM dependencies. It feels like wonky to use bundler and npm, my project has a lot of configuration files it. Is there a better solution?
13:28 Just listened to episode 115 and Codekit looks like an amazing application. I have a question about using it in a Rails project. I think I recall Chris saying that he uses it when working with Rails. Can you explain the workflow for that?
15:20 Since the advent of tablets & smartphones I’ve noticed that my clients are a lot less concerned about desktop legacy issues i.e. IE. Should designers be a lot more emboldened in advising their clients to ditch IE 6-9 & get them to spend their money & your time on tablet-y smartphone-y goodness?
21:30 I’m having trouble with setting up Codekit to work with a Drupal Foundation 5 setup. Any advice?
28:36 What is a good way to implement page navigation with following requirements: no page refresh, the pages asynchronously preload, so there’s not much waiting when navigating, flexibility around loading new pages (for example the new page slides in rather than suddenly replacing the current one). Is Backbone good for this stuff or do I need something more advanced?
36:51 I just started working from home and I’m searching for some tips about how to setup my workspace. What kind of monitor are you using for coding? Are you using multiple monitors? Are you using an extra ergonomic keyboard/mouse? Do you guys like a standing desk? What kind of chair are you using?
48:27 My websites are getting more and more heavy with images and animations and my bosses / clients are complaining that things are taking to long to load and is not very responsive to user interaction. What are your suggestions on how to get my page to load sections at a time or load everything while displaying a loading animation?
Sponsors:
11:47 E4H: Sass Summit – Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the Sass Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop November 6th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
Join us for a day of Sass experts discussing the state of Sass and deep diving the features that make our workflow easier: from building style guides, coding complex RWD layouts, and much more.
Use coupon code SHOPTALKSHOW for 25% off, and grab your tickets now!
25:21 Media Temple – For years, Media Temple has been the premium web hosting choice of more designers, developers, and creative professionals than any other platform.
It’s all managed through their own simple, custom control panel, and backed by Media Temple’s famous 24/7 live support. Virtual Private Server solutions are also available with their DV and DV Developer hosting plans.
Also, check out their new managed WordPress hosting which includes 3 WordPress installs with unlimited bandwidth!
Special discount for ShopTalk listeners, use promo code SHOPTALK for 25% off your first month of web hosting. Go to mediatemple.net and enter your promo code upon signup.
Show Links:
Hack Mentor
NPM
Bower
LibSass
Codekit
Guard
Backbone.js
Discourse
Herman Miller Chair
NextDesk Air
55 min
September 30, 2014135: With Bastian Allgeier
This week we were joined by Bastian Allgeier. Bastian created and maintains Kirby, a file-based CMS. We take a deep dive into Kirby, other CMSs, and more.
We talked about (roughly in order):
News’n’Links’n’Drama:
17:25 Booking.com: Would You Like Fries With That?
Q & A:
26:38 I’m a part of the CSS-Tricks forum where you can usually find me recommending Kirby to just about anyone struggling with WordPress. My first question is, was WordPress an inspiration for what NOT to do when building a CMS? Secondly, when can we expect V2 of Kirby to be released?
48:44 I was looking for a CMS to use for client sites, and I came across PyroCMS. What are your thoughts on PyroCMS?
51:33 I am a front end developer in the initial planning of a blogging site and am feeling a little overwhelmed with CMS options. Is WordPress still king, or is it worth it to look at an up and coming CMS like Ghost?
Sponsors:
23:58 E4H: Sass Summit – Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the Sass Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop November 6th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
Join us for a day of Sass experts discussing the state of Sass and deep diving the features that make our workflow easier: from building style guides, coding complex RWD layouts, and much more.
Use coupon code SHOPTALKSHOW for 20% off, and grab your tickets now!
42:50 lynda.com – The best online learning resource. New courses are posted every single day. Check out some super great courses like:
SVG
JavaScript for Web Designers
Creative GoPro Photography and Video Techniques
Up and Running with Genesis for WordPress
Creating a One-Page Scrollable Website with Adobe Muse
So much more. Learn all the things! Get a [free 7 day trial now]!(http://lynda.com/shoptalk)!
Show Links:
Bastian Allgeier
Bastian on Twitter
Kirby CMS
Jekyll
Booking.com: Would You Like Fries With That?
Check out V2 of Kirby
Twig
PyroCMS
Ghost
Kirby Blog: PHP Template Engine
1 hr 3 min
September 22, 2014134: With Marc Grabanski
This week we were joined by Marc Grabanski. Marc is a UI dev consultant and runs Frontend Masters.
We talked about (roughly in order):
News’n’Links’n’Drama:
12:00 Don’t call it Standard Markdown
Q & A:
16:07 How do you prefer attaching JavaScript events to elements?
25:58 I am having a hard time finding a way to bridge my methods between front-end javascript and back-end php/mysql. Is there a good way to bridge these technologies?
32:36 Is there a foundry or type designer you rely on to provide consistency, or do you assume the well known ones are all pretty much the same quality? Is there a real incentive to hosting yourself?
44:04 Is there a ‘best-practices’ way to direct WordPress to run any CSS and JS from plugins in the footer?
53:10 I have a friend that wants to make a quick buck throwing together sites with Drupal themes. How do you both precisely articulate what is, and what is not “professional” practice?
Sponsors:
22:29 E4H: Sass Summit – Environments for Humans brings together some of the Web’s most notable experts in for an all-new, one-day only online conference, the Sass Summit 2014! Bring the experts to your desktop November 6th from 9AM to 4PM (CT).
Join us for a day of Sass experts discussing the state of Sass and deep diving the features that make our workflow easier: from building style guides, coding complex RWD layouts, and much more.
Use coupon code SHOPTALKSHOW for 20% off, and grab your tickets now!
40:58 Adobe Typekit – Typekit now brings beautiful type to your desktop with the power of Adobe Creative Cloud. Choose the fonts you need, and then use them wherever you need them—whether that’s on the web, synced to your desktop, or both.
Stunning typefaces from quality foundries. Inspiring to browse, and easy to use. Check it out now!
Show Links:
Marc Grabanski
Marc on Twitter
Front End Masters
Angular
React
Font Squirrel
W3 Total Cache
Foundation Framework
Sacha Greif: The $5 Logo
1 hr 5 min

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