Learn Images
Mat has written this free course for you all about images on the web. Covering image formats, responsive images, and workflows, this is one to keep on speed dial.
Mat has written this free course for you all about images on the web. Covering image formats, responsive images, and workflows, this is one to keep on speed dial.
In a way, I find these pictures—taken by someone from the ground with regular equipment—just as awe-inspiring as the images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
A no-nonsense checklist of good performance advice from Karolina.
Another post prompted by my recent musings on writing alt
text. This time Michelle looks at the case of text-as-images.
Prompted by my recent post on alt
text, Geoff shares some resources on the right length for alt
attributes.
Addy takes a deep dive into making sure your images are performant. There’s a lot to cover here—that’s why I ended up splitting it in two for the responsive design course: one module on responsive images and one on the picture
element.
To mark the start of the Dark Skies Festival today, here are some fantastic photographics taken not that far from Brighton.
In which Rob takes a deep dive into isometric projection and then gets generative with it.
Want to take a deep dive into tiling images? Like, a really deep dive. Rob has you covered.
A non-profit foundation dedicated to long-term digital preservation.
Imagine if we could place ourselves 100 years into the future and still have access to the billions of photos shared by millions of people on Flickr, one of the best documented, broadest photographic archives on the planet.
The Flickr Foundation represents our commitment to stewarding this digital, cultural treasure to ensure its existence for future generations.
Its first act is the renewal of the Flickr Commons.
Here’s a nifty little service from Zach: pass in a URL and it returns an image of the site’s icon.
Think of it as the indie web alternative to showing Twitter avatars.
A nice little collection of very simple—and very lightweight—SVGs to use as background patterns.
Beautifully restored high-resolution photographs of the Earth taken by Apollo astronauts.
This is how you write up a technique! Cassie takes an SVG pattern she used on the Clearleft “services” page and explains it in step-by-step detail, complete with explanatory animated diagrams.
Visualising the growth of the internet.
There’s no browser support yet but that doesn’t mean we can’t start adding prefers-reduced-data
to our media queries today. I like the idea of switching between web fonts and system fonts.
Five pieces of low-hanging fruit:
- Unlabelled links and buttons
- No image descriptions
- Poor use of headings
- Inaccessible web forms
- Auto-playing audio and video
A follow-up to full-bleed layout post I linked to recently. Here’s how you can get the same effect with using CSS grid.
I like the use of the principle of least power not just in the choice of languages, but within the application of a language.
Match up images that have been posted in pairs to Twitter with the caption “same energy”. This is more fun and addictive than it has any right to be.
When you’ve got a single centered column but you want something (like an image) to break out and span the full width.