Andy Bell discusses the need for visual feedback in client-side routers and suggests a fallback mechanism to standard links for better UX.
The author revives their blog 'Inspiring Online' with longer posts, a redesign, and a migration from Jekyll to Hugo hosted on Netlify.
A web developer reflects on eight years of blogging, the switch to 11ty, and plans for more tutorials on accessible web development.
A guide to understanding and building URLs in Django, covering URLconfs, path functions, and routing.
A developer's personal endorsement of the Eleventy static site generator, with a call to support the project and a brief professional introduction.
Explains Microdata, a format for describing web page content for SEO and structured data, comparing it to RDFa and JSON-LD.
Andy announces moving his CSS courses to piccalil.li and introduces his work as a front-end developer and founder.
A CSS tip for selecting SVG elements to ensure they fill width correctly, with a link to a code gist.
Andy Bell announces major changes and the future direction of Piccalilli, a publication for front-end developers.
Andy shares a technical tip about improving DNS resolution by pushing domain nameservers to Netlify, along with an introduction to his work.
A web developer recommends a perfect guide to understanding CSS cascade and specificity, which are often cited as reasons why CSS is difficult.
Explores 2020 web trends: extensibility via CSS Houdini & variable fonts, and interoperability, focusing on component-based development.
Andy discusses the powerful combination of Eleventy and Service Workers for building modern, performant websites.
A tutorial on integrating the Chart.js JavaScript library with Django to create data visualizations from Django model data.
A tutorial on using CSS Grid Template Areas for creating flexible, visually-defined layouts, with examples and comparisons to traditional grid methods.
A look at modern PHP's evolution, debunking common misconceptions and highlighting its improved type system and development practices in 2020.
Andy Bell introduces a simple mailto link generator tool and shares his background in front-end development and CSS education.
Andy Bell announces changes to the Piccalilli newsletter and front-end development publication, with a focus on future improvements.
A web developer announces switching from Chrome to Microsoft Edge as their default browser, citing a preference for Chromium dev tools.
Explains how to integrate gRPC-Web with Blazor WebAssembly for efficient, type-safe client-server communication, moving beyond JSON-over-HTTP.
