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Keeping up with the Joneses: Front End Techniqu...

Ben MacGowan
November 12, 2013

Keeping up with the Joneses: Front End Techniques to Future-Proof your Sites

A shorter, more succinct version of this talk where we explore our approach to authoring HTML, CSS and JavaScript in order to better future proof our website.

Originally presented at #rdggeek49

Ben MacGowan

November 12, 2013
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  1. @benmacgowan Time Machine designed by Luis Prado from The Noun

    Project future-proofing isn’t just about tech
  2. @benmacgowan “the average web page now weighs in at about

    1.3MB, 
 up 35% in the last year” - HTTP ARCHIVE
  3. @benmacgowan Hole designed by William J. Salvador from The Noun

    Project cater for lack of browser support
  4. @benmacgowan you cannot maintain a site and scale a website

    when needed if you don’t understand the underlying foundations
  5. @benmacgowan Resources http://html5doctor.com/ ! http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/tag/html/ ! http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/ ! http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public- html/

    http://css-tricks.com/ ! http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/tag/css/ ! http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www- style/