Blogs about Front-end web development

Form fan that I am, I’m excited to have CSS that enables fields (especially textarea) to grow to accommodate the content someone’s in the process of entering into it.I distinctly remember spending a good deal …

The background At Government Digital Service (GDS), our mission is to make digital government simpler, clearer and faster for everyone. As part of the GOV.UK One Login programme, we released the GOV.UK ID Check app …

UX London runs for three days, from June 18th to 20th. If you can, you should get a ticket for all three days. But if you can’t, you can get a one-day ticket. Think of …

This is a wonderful in-depth article by Jen, with lots of great demos. She makes a very strong case for masonry layouts being part of the grid spec (I’m convinced!). If you have strong feelings …

Here's a fun use case for CSS paint-order Codepen · MDN · CanIuse?

One easy thing you can do for the earth is not use “AI” tools. Consider this as a programmer, web developer, web designer, copywriter, webmaster, etc. The tools include anything branded as generative AI, LLMs, …

Two weeks ago, I noticed a tweet by Jason Lengstorf about a Netlify project called Dusty Domains. The idea: use a domain that you registered but never actually used, "ship a site to Netlify and …

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Focus outlines (and their styling) have frequently been a point of contention between aesthetics and usability. On the one hand, focus outlines are incredibly important for navigation, particularly by users navigating via keyboard or other …

I had a fantastic time chatting with a group of design system wizards, Nathan Curtis and Ben Callahan. Geoff Graham did a great job facilitating the conversation, and we covered a lot of ground!

I’ve written about light-dark() before here on bram.us, and last month I also wrote an article for web.dev about it. The article takes a bit of a different approach, so it’s still worth a read …

Right at the top, let’s say what’s in the title… The name Jamstack is meaningless… but then again, so is MACH … and composable… and headless… and Developer experience… and serverless…, but also, they’re all …

I've spoken at a lot of events this year, some small community events, some large multitrack conferences, some meetups. All the events have had one thing in common. Organisers who care. Organisers who care about …

Essay question Write a 4000 word portfolio on the following topic... You are required to produce a portfolio which shows ongoing evidence of how you are applying learning on the PG Certificate in Management and …

The original purpose of this blog was for me to document solutions that I spent hours figuring out at work, which means it’s not my code therefore I cannot take it wholesale with me. I …

Recently, there’s been a bit of a discussion online about recommending folks add times and timezones to dates on their websites. Since I started keeping a record of my RSVPs to meetups and conferences on …

It's twenty four years to the day since A List Part published John Allsopp's seminal treatise A Dao of Web Design. But all this time on, we're still making the same mistakes. Read more.

If you take nothing else away from this post, I want you to remember this: Write alternative text as if you’re describing the image to a friend. I find people often get too wrapped up …

This article on privacy-focussed web design by Paul Jardine and Becky Thorn of sustainably-minded web design agency Root raises some great points about the link between invasive tracking scripts and the carbon footprint of a …