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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Lead ui engineer @ creative jar

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@benmacgowan @benmacgowan make things with front-end tech

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@benmacgowan @benmacgowan Speedometer designed by Prerak Patel from The Noun Project ENTER STATEMENT HERE breakingborde.rs

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@benmacgowan ICONS from The Noun Project The web has Evolved

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@benmacgowan html + css + javascript

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@benmacgowan HTML

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@benmacgowan

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@benmacgowan

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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?

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@benmacgowan browsers hold the cards

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@benmacgowan keeping up can be hard

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@benmacgowan Time Machine designed by Luis Prado from The Noun Project future-proofing isn’t just about tech

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@benmacgowan “the average web page now weighs in at about 1.3MB,   up 35% in the last year” - HTTP ARCHIVE

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

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@benmacgowan Skeleton designed by Sebastian Langer from The Noun Project

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@benmacgowan you cannot maintain a site and scale a website when needed if you don’t understand the underlying foundations

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@benmacgowan Glasses designed by Travis Yunis from The Noun Project ensure readability

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

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@benmacgowan Crown designed by Olivier Guin from The Noun Project Don’t let specificity rule

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@benmacgowan Be smart with your selectors

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@benmacgowan 4095 rules 31 imports

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@benmacgowan STRUCTURE Default _Dependencies _Foundations _Components _Regions _Theme PrinT

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

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@benmacgowan no-one likes talking about JavaScript

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@benmacgowan no-one likeD 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 detect features, not platform

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

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@benmacgowan Split designed by Dmitry Baranovskiy from The Noun Project SEPARATING UI FROM CONTENT

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@benmacgowan clean house = clean mind

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@benmacgowan Code can be beautiful too

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@benmacgowan dON’T LEAVE REFACTORING UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE

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@benmacgowan sET STANDARDS

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@benmacgowan Form your own opinions

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@benmacgowan Man designed by Sergi Delgado from The Noun Project We are not clones

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@benmacgowan Enter statement here

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@benmacgowan keeping in the know

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@benmacgowan browsers

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@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/

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@benmacgowan community @rogerjohansson @adactio @stevefaulkner @molly @brucel @LeaVerou @meyerweb @CSSWIZARDRY @CHRISCOYIER @stopsatgreen

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@benmacgowan Thank you