I am a Sr. Frontend Engineer, Team Lead, with 10+ years of experience. I enjoy writing about frontend development and hope to help you on your dev journey.
In this week's article, I want to jump right into building a simple navbar using HTML and CSS. Let's take a look at the design we will be building and review the requirements. Table of contents: What we are building Requirements Implementation Concl...
When starting to learn HTML you will hear the term semantic markup. What does this mean and why is it important? Let's break it down and take a look at some examples. What is semantic HTML? Why is this important? Examples of semantic elements Conclu...
In this article, we are going to continue our Basic HTML series. Over the last couple of weeks, I have discussed basic HTML structure (Basic HTML Structure Explained) and explained what the head tag is (HTML Head Tag Explained). This week let's take ...
In last week's blog post Basic HTML structure explained I covered the basics of HTML structure. In this article let's go more in-depth on the purpose of the head tag. Table of contents What is the head tag? Title Tag Meta Tag Link Tag Style Tag Scri...
HTML is one of the first building blocks to learn how to build websites. There are a set of rules that must be followed in order to build HTML documents. Let's break down the basic structure of an HTML document to help us start building websites. Tab...
Recently I was a part of a conversation on twitter where Danny asked a great question. "What is localhost:8080"? In this article let's break it down, and defined what the means. https://twitter.com/100days100/status/1352713206263853057?s=20 Before we...
When building a website using WordPress often times you will want a development environment to work with before pushing to production. There are a few different ways to achieve this goal. In this article we are going to see how to setup WordPress usi...
When building your website you often will be faced with a choice between using a button or link (a). In some cases a link is the clear choice when you need to link to another page, but what about in page features like ajax request, expand/collapse, a...
There are many different techniques and rules to building an accessible website and it might feel overwhelming. However, we want to make sure we build it in such a way that is usable for everyone. Below are a few tips that you can start implementing ...
When beginning to code, sometimes it can feel overwhelming to create your ideal setup. When starting your web development journey in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it is helpful to have a starting point for getting set up. With so many different language...