With MailPoet and WooCommerce, we can build a paid subscription newsletter into a WordPress website. Our only costs are transaction fees, whatever WordPress hosting we might need, and a yearly fee for WooCommerce Subscriptions, making it a very cost-friendly … 

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#211: Building a Paid Subscription Newsletter with MailPoet + WooCommerce + WordPress

I think Astro is a pretty cool bit of technology for building websites! Should we call it a framework? We’ll get into that in the video. How can we call it a framework if it asks you to “bring your … 

#210: Yapping About Astro

I paired up with David Jones-Gilardi of DataStax to go through one of the workshops they have put together (with Ania Kubów, who has a video you should watch as well) that does a good job of showcasing how … 

#209: A Netflix Clone with DataStax Astra and Netlify

This is the video version of a blog post we did asking the question: How do you make a layout with pictures down one side of a page matched up with paragraphs on the other side? It’s a satisfying answer because … 

#208: A CSS Grid Layout with Pictures Down One Side Matched Up with Paragraphs on the Other

I get a hands-on performance review with Tim Kadlec of WebPageTest! This is a real honor as Tim is a real performance guru who knows WebPageTest in and out. I’m all about getting a little free consulting helping y’all … 

#207: Performance Testing CSS-Tricks with WebPageTest

I’m joined by Chris Sev from Digital Ocean to talk about their new App Platform. We’re going to use it to build a little website. The site will be blog-like: posts with IDs, titles, content, and the more dynamic … 

#206: Building a Data-Backed Next.js Site with Prisma & App Platform

How it works You apply position: sticky; to an element along with a top, left, right, or bottom threshold and it will “stick” in that position when the threshold is passed, as long as there is room … 

#205: Sticky Positioning: How it Works, What Can Break It, and Dumb Tricks

In this video, I’m joined by Preety Kumar of Deque to take a look at their DevTools plugin for axe. Short story: this is an amazing plugin that helps you quickly find accessibility problems on any website, then helps … 

#204: Using the axe DevTools Web Accessibility Testing Browser Plugin

Cloudflare Pages is Jamstack hosting, meaning it’s a static file host that run your builds and lets you do dynamic things with JavaScript and services. You might normally think of Cloudflare as something you put in front of your site’s … 

#203: A First Look at Cloudflare Pages

Like so many things CSS, there is all sorts of little stuff to know, even something as minuscule as centering a list marker. A reader wrote in with a screenshot of what they were trying to accomplish — basically an … 

#202: Centered List Markers

Joshua Comeau crowd-coined the term “boop” (high five, Adam Kuhn). These are sorta like hover/focus states, except that they aren’t. Your thingies — things like links, buttons, etc. — should still have those states. A “boop” is a more whimsical effect that runs once when the mouse enters it, finishes the run even if your mouse leaves (which is something CSS can’t really do), and will potentially run again on the user’s next mouseenter later, after the first booping … Read article “#201: Doing Booping” 

#201: Doing Booping

Fair warning: you aren’t going to need this every day! I just happened to be looking at a neat little SVG warping tool that had a feature where my mouse scroll wheel (or trackpad) could be used to zoom the working area in and out. We dug in to play with the idea, and it turns out it’s not terribly hard, thanks to the wheel DOM event and CSS transforms.… Read article “#200: Scroll to Zoom” 

#200: Scroll to Zoom

I probably should have learned this long ago, but alas, here we are. Turns out you can tell what function you want JSX to use. Yep, JSX really only has one primary transformation that it does. It turns angle brackets … 

#199: Messing with JSX

static: the default relative: allows you to nudge around with top/right/bottom/left, making z-index work, gives you a positioning contextabsolute: top/right/bottom/left moves the element to that exact position, otherwise the same as relativefixed: like absolute, but scrolling the page doesn’t move the element sticky: like fixed, but it doesn’t become fixed until the page is scrolled past your set … Read article “#198: About the Position Property” 

#198: About the Position Property

The Stackbit app helps you kick out a new Jamstack site very quickly. Pick a theme, a static site generator, and a CMS and it’ll get a repo going for you on the double. Stackbit has gotten much more powerful that that though, because now it also has a visual editor for your site as well, regardless of the tech choices behind the site. Stackbit Studio is a rather amazing thing to see work, so I have the CEO, Ohad … Read article “#197: A Look at Stackbit and Stackbit Studio” 

#197: A Look at Stackbit and Stackbit Studio

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