Grid Drop Quotes, Revisited
In last week’s Grid-Powered Drop Quotes, I overlooked a potential problem with the styles I created. Fortunately, Philippe Wittenbergh caught it and pointed it out, and we both hit on the same...
View ArticleGridded Headings
In my ongoing experiments with both a realignment of meyerweb’s design and CSS Grid, I came up with an interesting heading-and-subheading technique I’d like to share. It allows two elements to be...
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Gridded Headings v. Justified Headings
Amongst the reactions to Gridded Headings, Benjamin de Cock pointed out there’s another way to arrive at the same place I did. Instead of this: grid-template-columns: minmax(1em,1fr)...
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Half Life
Three years ago, Rebecca took her last breaths. She’s been gone for half her life. Half the time she had with us, elapsed in absence. It’s still hard to comprehend. The old adage that you don’t get...
View ArticleEulogy, Completed
Three years ago, almost exactly to the minute as I publish this, I delivered the eulogy at my daughter’s funeral. A few months after that, reading it again, I discovered that when I wrote it, I didn’t...
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Help Insurance
This is my daughter Rebecca in 2013. She was 5¼ years old when I took this picture. Less than three days later, she almost died on an ER bed. She’d been completely fine when we set out for vacation...
View ArticleCSS: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition
On Monday, July 3rd, as I sat in the living room of a house just a bit north of New York City, I pushed the last writing and editing changes to CSS: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition and notified...
View ArticleAdding Backgrounds to Directly Loaded SVGs
My primary SVG viewer is Firefox. This is partly because it’s always running, so the startup time is essentially zero. It also allows me to directly inspect and modify elements of the SVG element...
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“CSS: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition” Goes to Print
Yesterday afternoon, CSS: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition went to the printers. Eighteen years after the First Edition hit shelves, eleven years after its predecessor came out, five years after I...
View Article“CSS: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition” Release and Contents
CSS: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition is wending its way to the reading public, and I have some updates on that. The O’Reilly catalog still says October 2017, but for the physical copy, Barnes &...
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Declining Complexity in CSS
At the end of last week, I posted this picture to Twitter and Facebook, and on Twitter it kind of took off. On the left: the 2nd and 3rd editions of “CSS: The Definitive Guide”. On the right, a single...
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Generating Wireframe Boxes with CSS and HTML5
I was recently noodling around with some new layout ideas for An Event Apart’s speaker pages (e.g., Chris Coyier’s or Jen Simmons’) and wanted to share the ideas with other members of the team. But...
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Book Review: “Create with Code: Build Your Own Website”
A thing people ask me with some regularity is, “What’s a good book for someone who wants to get started in web design?” I’m here to review a book that’s one of the best I’ve seen, Create with Code:...
View ArticleA Meyerweb Makeover
This coming week, I’m going to redesign meyerweb.com — which will be its first redesign in twelve and a half years. I’m doing this as part of Jen Simmons’ #newwwyear initiative. As Jen put it: Ok,...
View ArticleA Newwwyear Livestream
After I announced my newwwyear plans, a couple of people pinged me to ask if I’d do a Google Hangout or some such so that people could follow along as I live-redesign meyerweb in production. And I...
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