Articles, tutorials and other ramblings
Articles about web design, development and some personal ones thrown in. Check out my portfolio.
Dave's Blog
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Coding a festive puzzle game with modern front-end techniques
T’is the season, by which I mean the season where some of us have down-time to do a little practical learning with code. And what better way to learn this time of year than by making a toy you can actually play with. A couple of days ago I set myself the task of creating a sliding puzzle game, that you can actually play, using modern front-end development techniques. In this article I’m going to run through the techniques I used and explain how I put them all together to create the final product which you can see on CodePen.
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5 Tips For a Happier Front-end Development Team
During my time at Simpleweb I’ve learnt an incredible amount of tools, techniques, practices and general front-end development knowledge. In this article I’d like to share just a few of the things I’ve learnt that will hopefully make your front-end work easier, more productive or just all-round more enjoyable.
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Dropping the mic on Netlify in 20 minutes
Alright, so I didn’t actually drop the mic on Netlify; I dropped a site on it. Netlify Drop is a tool where you can grab a folder containing a site or app or whatever and drop it straight into the Netlify hosting platform.
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Making your first Jekyll theme: Part 2
In Part 1, I gave an overview of creating themes for Jekyll and a few tips for when you’re developing your own theme. In this second part, I’m going to give a full step-by-step guide to developing your own Jekyll theme gem.
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Making your first Jekyll theme: Part 1
By nature, any well structured site that has easily editable content is ‘themeable’ — a layer, or skin, that presents content in the way the owner or creator intended; Jekyll is no different. Pages, posts and any other form of formatted content can be segregated from the templating files.
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Adding heading links to your Jekyll blog
Just a brief JavaScript trick to get anchor links added to your Jekyll blog post headings
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What Do We Look For In A CMS?
I posed this question in several forms on Twitter to get feedback from the community. After some consideration, polls and great discussion, I came up with a list of aspects that people consider when looking for a CMS.
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My Worst Job Interview
My worst job interview didn’t get me very far; not even into their office. It was just a phone call. It was a brief and kind of upsetting moment in my early career. Allow me to explain why I think this was my worst interview.