Sorry for the hiatus these last few weeks. Here are the links for this week (and a few from weeks past):
The Best WordPress Backup Plugins Compared
There are a million of these. Just tell me the best one! 🙂
Source: www.sitepoint.com
How to design the perfect contact page | Webdesigner Depot
The first example is a coffee shop in OKC where I used to live.
Source: www.webdesignerdepot.com
chart.css – A Simple CSS Chart System
Really slick if you want to build charts quickly.
Source: theus.github.io
Lazy Loading Images on the Web
Seems all of these are using data-src so it doesn’t work with JS disabled. That can be rectified with a <noscript> if you are hell-bent on that.
Source: developer.telerik.com
Simple Lightbox
It might be hard to create a lightbox plugin without jQuery, because I never see it. This one seems pretty simple where others seem to be complex.
Source: andreknieriem.de
Mobile “Pull to Share” Interaction Experiment
Exactly that; and experiment. I’m not sure the UX of this would be intuitive. Very clever, though.
Source: tympanus.net
How Google’s AMP project speeds up the Web—by sandblasting HTML | Ars Technica
Ars’ take on AMP. “It’s the ads, stupid”
Source: arstechnica.com
Apple News Format Reference: Apple News Format
Alright! Now someone write a WordPress plugin for this. 🙂
Source: developer.apple.com
State of Web Type
Source: stateofwebtype.com
Despair is knowing it now takes 45 screens to set up a new iPhone | The Verge
Great observation, Luke W.
Source: www.theverge.com
synapticism/wordpress-gulp-starter-kit
This is great! Hopefully this fixes most of the pitfalls with WordPress themes.
Source: github.com
Accelerated Mobile Pages Project
I tend to agree with Tim Kadlec’s comments near the end of this article.
Source: css-tricks.com