Blogging and all that Malarkey

Yours truly over at CSS Tricks: “I’ve used border-image regularly. Yet, it remains one of the most underused CSS tools, and I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why. Is it possible that people steer clear of border-image because its syntax is awkward and unintuitive? Perhaps it’s because most explanations don’t solve the type of creative implementation problems that most people need to solve. Most likely, it’s both.”

Yours truly over at the Envato blog: “What do you see when you look at a movie poster? Is it simply advertising to promote a movie or a piece of artwork you’d potentially hang on your wall at home or in an office?”

Yours truly over at the SQSP Themes blog. “CSS Media Queries already make Squarespace websites responsive, but there will frequently be times when you’ll need to make elements responsive to their containers, not just to the viewport. Thankfully, CSS Container Queries are now widely implemented in browsers, and there are ways to use them on Squarespace websites.”

Yours truly over at the Envato blog: “When I was growing up in the 1980s in a steel-making town that had lost its steelworks, there was a thriving subculture of fanzines and fly posters printed in garages and community centers.”

Yours truly over at the SQSP Themes blog. “From a CSS perspective, Squarespace covers almost everything. However, here are five CSS rules you should consider adding to your Squarespace Custom CSS boilerplate to enhance accessibility, text rendering, and user experience.”

Yours truly over at CSS Tricks: “Honestly, it’s difficult for me to come to terms with, but almost 20 years have passed since I wrote my first book, Transcending CSS. In it, I explained how and why to use what was the then-emerging Multi-Column Layout module. Yet, CSS Columns remains one of the most underused CSS layout tools. I wonder why that is?”

Yours truly over at the SQSP Themes blog. “Squarespace is (obviously) the platform of choice for intergalactic space warriors. So, less than a week before Count Binface was due to announce his manifesto, the challenge was to develop my designs into a new website using Squarespace.”

While more established artists, bands, composers, sound designers, and other music professionals often have a bigger budget to spend on their websites, plenty more choose the DIY route with Squarespace or Wix. To help those people stand out, I added three new designs to my Squarespace templates store.

With Christmas and New Year just around the corner, this is my final post of 2024. It’s been an interesting—but certainly not the best—year.

In September, I launched my range of Premium Squarespace templates inspired by the work of past masters of design. Now, I’m giving them a huge update.