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Because of its elegant deployment environment, Heroku is the most popular hosting solution for Rails applications. In this screencast, Jay McGavren walks you through setting up a basic Rails application to deploy to Heroku, as well as the workflow and best practices involved in maintaining it on the platform.
The user experience of websites has improved by leaps and bounds over the years, but I still run into sites that make me ask, “What were they thinking?!”
Stripping a website to its barest form, ignoring for a moment, content which is only text and images, all a browsing experience is, is navigation.
We love that neat little “pull to refresh” feature on our devices, but wouldn’t it be awesome if it was for the web? Well, that’s what Hook is here to do.
Brad Frost on focusing on performance in RWD. Do it!
I love email life-hacks. Ryan is full of great organization and life-hack info and his notes on using email always help me get things done!
A better workflow for you or your team focused on prioritization optimization. Also uses Trello.
Good look at a company’s/designer’s thoughts on a redesign of their website. Focused on conversions.
What if pinch & zoom utilized media queries to render the layout differently (for those wanting denser content) vs. one size fits all? #RWD – @cameronmoll
“All code in any code-base should look like a single person typed it, no matter how many people contributed,” is one of the many ideas behind documents such as Rick Waldon’s Idiomatic JS and Nicolas Gallagher’s Idiomatic CSS.
An article detailing the steps needed to get started using icon fonts in your website or web application.
When you use CSS to float an element that does not have an explicit width, the element’s width becomes its “shrink-to-fit” width. This is useful when you’re floating elements that you don’t know how wide they need to be.
Sassaparilla is a fast way to start your responsive web design projects that harnesses the power of Sass and Compass
Noah Stokes gives advice on how to expand their skill set and really learn to master their craft as well as how I stay current on new technologies and trends.
Every single business across the web and the world should have a logo, because it represents your company’s identity — a critical branding element. You want people to know what kind of company you are in a single glance across your logo.
If you’ve ever gone back and forth between Photoshop and CSS for a given design, then you know it can be a bit of a pain to make sure all your colors are perfectly matched between the two.