We jumped right into JavaScript in February. Instead of taking the more traditional language approach – learning syntax, language structure, formulating expressions, operators and arrays – we just started building stuff that can be used in the real world. We are taking our lead following along with Wes Bos and his online Javascript 30 course. […]
Web Design SIG Archive
The Web Design SIG archive is a history of all of the posts that appeared on this site when it was focusing on web design concepts and implementation methods. We talked about CSS Grid, JavaScript, and Google's Material Design.
2018 Web Design Trends Discussed & Debated
The Web Design SIG kicked off 2018 by doing what every other web design ‘think-tank’ does – talk about web design trends for 2018. Our fearless leader combed through countless online journals looking for just the right collection of projections and ideas, but settled back on some old favorites as a jumping off point of […]
CSS Grid Tools for Web Design
In our final meeting of 2017 we reviewed a number of tools available to help in building just the right grid for web page layout. We kicked off with a video (actually just looking at the splash screen for the video – more on that later) that provides an excellent overview of the CSS Grid […]
CSS Grid Template Areas
November’s gathering had us reviewing the featured of named CSS Grid areas. Woo hoo! Good stuff. The entire presentation can be viewed here. The inspiration for our discussion drew heavily on a blog post by Manuel Rego Casanovas. I think that Manuel does an awesome job of clearly explaining how the grid template areas work […]
Lining Up With CSS Grid
We covered a lot of ground on Saturday, Sept 16 as we kicked off the 2017-2018 PACS year. CSS Grid is our topic for the next few months or so. As a relatively new CSS construct, we started at the beginning and reviewed a good definition from bitsofcode. The grid is an intersecting set of […]