Chrome 90 is rolling out now April 14, 2021 Frontend Focus #?486 — April 14, 2021 | Read on the web What’s New in Chrome 90 for Developers — Version 90 of Google Chrome is rolling out now, and it includes a new value for the CSS overflow property, the renaming of the Feature Policy API to Permissions Policy, a new way to implement and… Read More
Change/Reset Your WordPress Admin Password using Softaculous WordPress Manager April 8, 2021 Forgot your WordPress site admin pass? Don’t have access to reset the password? No worries Softaculous is here for the rescue. You can now change your WordPress site admin password through Softaculous WordPress Manager. Yes, you read it right it’s a piece of cake and you do not require any technical knowledge to do so.… Read More
Vanilla JS resources worth knowing April 7, 2021 Frontend Focus #485 — April 7, 2021 | Read on the web Vanilla JavaScript Code Snippets — A thorough look at vanilla resources and lightweight JS libraries to help solve various problems without the need for any large overheads or third-party dependencies. Vitaly Friedman Dark Mode in 5 Minutes with Inverted Lightness Variables — Tips for creating… Read More
How to future-proof your CSS March 31, 2021 Frontend Focus #484 — March 31, 2021 | Read on the web Developing For Imperfect: Future Proofing CSS Styles — How can we plan future-proof styles in a world with an infinite degree of device and user ability variance? This post explores how things break and how modern CSS provides solutions. Stephanie Eckles Who Has The Fastest… Read More
A guide to accessible frontend components March 24, 2021 Frontend Focus #483 — March 24, 2021 | Read on the web Image via: Smashing Magazine A Complete Guide To Accessible Front-End Components — This is a comprehensive look into reliable accessible components: from tabs and tables to toggles and tooltips. A detailed resource worth bookmarking, with lots of links to great resources. Smashing Magazine Compat2021: A… Read More
Ghost 4.0 arrives March 17, 2021 Frontend Focus #482 — March 17, 2021 | Read on the web Ghost 4.0 — This popular open-source publishing tool / CMS just hit a major new point release, adding a new dashboard, membership features, integration tweaks, and neat frontend changes such as responsive, lazy-loading images everywhere, and notable performance gains. Ghost Just-In-Time: The Next Generation of… Read More
Backup Your WordPress Site to Google Drive via Softacluous March 13, 2021 Server crashed ? Had a backup but on the same server ? Bad idea! Why not backup your installation in a trusted provider like Google Drive ? Your backup will always be safe. By the end of this article, you’ll have complete knowledge on how can you configure your Google drive as a backup location… Read More
The best font loading strategies March 10, 2021 Frontend Focus #481 — March 10, 2021 | Read on the web A Whimsically Illustrated CSS Grid Cheat Sheet — A handy guide with lots of illustrations covering both parent and children properties. There’s a video version of the guide here too. Joy Shaheb The Best Font Loading Strategies & How to Execute Them — Know your… Read More
How to use the ‘before’ and ‘after’ pseudo-elements March 3, 2021 Frontend Focus #480 — March 3, 2021 | Read on the web Diving into the ::before and ::after Pseudo-Elements — These pseudo-elements are incredibly versatile tools in your CSS toolkit and can be used in a wide-range of situations. This article does a good job of explaining them, and shows how to use them in practice. Will… Read More
Solving aspect-ratio trickiness February 24, 2021 Frontend Focus #479 — February 24, 2021 | Read on the web Create Responsive Image Effects with CSS Gradients and aspect-ratio — A classic problem in CSS is maintaining the aspect ratio of images across related components, such as cards. The newly supported aspect-ratio property in combination with object-fit provides a remedy to this headache of… Read More