Web Development Articles

ALWAYS Put the Record ID in the Edit Form Users might have multiple pages of your app open in different tabs or windows. Use a page-specific ID, not something shared like a cookie or session data.
Auto-Switching a Website to Dark Mode You can easily tell your site to use darker colors when a visitor is using a dark theme by using CSS media queries.
Eleventy data cascade not picking up front matter on layouts Fixed in 1.0.1: Eleventy normally combines the front matter in layouts along with the templates, data files, etc...unless the layout is set globally.
Google Toolbar AutoFill is Weird This form had name and e-mail fields, but AutoFill only recognized e-mail. I figured, OK, people might be using this, let's see if I can adjust the page and make it compatible.
Keep Numbers in Server Errors '404' transcends language and font barriers.
Make Feedly Notice an Updated WordPress Post by Changing the GUID Changing the GUID of an updated post in your RSS/Atom feed will tell feed readers that it's a new post. Here's some WordPress code that will let you do that with a custom field.
On Broken HTML From time to time the idea is put forth that less common browsers need to start dealing with bad code. There are two problems with that view.
Pure CSS Buttons As part of a minor site optimizing kick, I replaced the validation labels with something smaller, less obtrusive, and directly on the page. I tried to duplicate the look of the classic antipixel-style buttons in CSS.
Readable Email and Web Pages It's 2024. If you're still designing websites or email like you would design an 8.5x11" promotional hand-out on a sheet of paper, you really haven't been paying attention to how people use the internet over the past decade.
Web Font Downloaded Twice When Preloading Weirdly enough, you need to add a 'crossorigin' property even if the font file is on the same site.
When Not To Use A Redirect Don't use a redirect when changing a setting on your web server would do the job better.