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

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@benmacgowan kEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES: Front End techniques to future-proof your sites

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@benmacgowan CREATIVE-JAR.COM - BENMACGOWAN.CO.UK - BREAKINGBORDE.RS

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@benmacgowan ICONS from The Noun Project The web has Evolved

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@benmacgowan HTML

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@benmacgowan html5

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@benmacgowan Speedometer designed by Prerak Patel from The Noun Project

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@benmacgowan css

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@benmacgowan css3

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@benmacgowan -VENDOR-css3

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@benmacgowan CSS4, WHAT? Question designed by Martin Delin from The Noun Project

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@benmacgowan browsers hold the cards

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@benmacgowan keeping up can be hard

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@benmacgowan clean house =clean mind

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@benmacgowan Skeleton designed by Sebastian Langer from The Noun Project

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@benmacgowan http://html5doctor.com/resources/

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@benmacgowan Repeat designed by Jardson AraUjo from The Noun Project Be consistent

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@benmacgowan Hole designed by William J. Salvador from The Noun Project cater for lack of browser support

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@benmacgowan Speedometer designed by Prerak Patel from The Noun Project

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@benmacgowan Layers designed by Cody Lawson from The Noun Project Layer the experience

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@benmacgowan Keeping in the know @rogerjohansson @adactio @stevefaulkner @molly @brucel http://html5doctor.com/ http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/tag/html/ http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/

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@benmacgowan Speedometer designed by Prerak Patel from The Noun Project

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@benmacgowan OOCSS @stubbornella ; http://oocss.org/ How do you scale CSS for thousands of pages? Object Oriented CSS is an answer. It’s an approach for writing CSS that’s fast, maintainable, and standards-based. It adds much needed predictability to CSS so that even beginners can participate in writing beautiful websites.

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@benmacgowan OOCSS @stubbornella ; http://oocss.org/ Separation of structure from skin separation of containers and content

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@benmacgowan SMACSS SMACSS is more style guide than rigid framework. There is no library within here for you to download or install. It is an attempt to document a consistent approach to site development when using CSS. @snookca ; http://smacss.com/

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@benmacgowan SMACSS Categorising CSS rules and creating patterns Increases the semantic value of a section Decreases the expectation of specific HTML @snookca ; http://smacss.com/

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@benmacgowan Naming conventions Layout: .l-inline state: .is-featured Module: .panel

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@benmacgowan Heart designed by Thomas Le Bas from The Noun Project #id

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@benmacgowan Trophy designed by Ken Messenger from The Noun Project Don’t let specificity rule

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@benmacgowan Be smart with your selectors

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@benmacgowan DEVELOPERS EITHER OR DOCUMENTATION Heart designed by Thomas Le Bas from The Noun Project

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@benmacgowan VS.

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@benmacgowan STRUCTURE Default _Dependencies _Foundations _Components _Regions _Theme PrinT

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@benmacgowan Keeping in the know @LeaVerou @meyerweb @CSSWIZARDRY @CHRISCOYIER @stopsatgreen http://css-tricks.com/ http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/tag/css/ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/

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@benmacgowan no-one likes talking about JavaScript

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@benmacgowan JavaScript !=jQuery

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@benmacgowan No designed by P.J. Onori from The Noun Project what if there is no javascript?

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@benmacgowan Detective designed by Simon Child from The Noun Project Don’t rely on user-agent detection

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@benmacgowan Trumpet designed by Proletkult Graphik from The Noun Project JavaScript can still do animation

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@benmacgowan Puzzle designed by Marcio Duarte from The Noun Project PIECING IT ALL TOGETHER

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@benmacgowan Speedometer designed by Prerak Patel from The Noun Project SEPARATING UI FROM CONTENT

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@benmacgowan Speedometer designed by Prerak Patel from The Noun Project pERFORMANCE IS KEY

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@benmacgowan Images designed by John Caserta from The Noun Project image compression