Web Accessibility laws coming soon
July 31, 2013 -New websites being made now should be accessible, BY LAW!!! Accessibility affects every level of web site production. Starting with design, the development, and the... View Article
New websites being made now should be accessible, BY LAW!!! Accessibility affects every level of web site production. Starting with design, the development, and the... View Article
It’s not really fair to compare a closed ecosystem to an open source one, but let’s try. Android and iOS are the extreme platforms: One is... View Article
When it gets down to it, the Internet is a pretty key ingredient in my hobby / job of building websites. This begs the question:... View Article
Probably one of the more important lessons I’ll learn this year is to simply say “no“. Today friends needed help with a pretty interesting and... View Article
I’ve heard of the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) coding methodology a bit over the years, but this practical explanation really blew my mind. It often... View Article
This isn’t allowed to be your first impression of me as a professional crafter of websites. I really feel like I need to preface this... View Article
Chrome Blink went to the masses today, and unexpectedly I found my first buggy thing about the new JS rendering engine! I really didn’t think... View Article
I’m probably not the only one who learned the hard way that CSS (or JS) class names can’t start with a number. It’s just one... View Article
Today when asked a simple question my two year old replied “I amn’t”. We laughed, but didn’t correct her, after all: she’s actually made a... View Article
I hope I always have a healthy appetite for learning. Over the years I’ve learned a lot from collaboration, reading, and dissecting the code of... View Article
As you may know (stalwart reader of ArleyM.com) I like writing and musing about this career of mine. One thing that’s been really way too... View Article
My talk at WordCamp TO (Breaking the Mould) is now online here: http://wordpress.tv/2013/07/08/arley-mcblain-breaking-the-mould-with-scoped-css/
Don’t Repeat Yourself: http://csswizardry.com/2013/07/writing-dryer-vanilla-css/ This is a great post about writing more maintainable CSS. Great examples show that sometimes being DRY can mean more code.
I recently had the pleasure of collaborating on a bit of responsive front end / WordPress work with a colleague at Thrillworks. This highly experienced... View Article