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

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

Lead ui engineer @ creative jar

@benmacgowan @benmacgowan make things with front-end tech

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

@benmacgowan ICONS from The Noun Project The web has Evolved

@benmacgowan html + css + javascript

@benmacgowan HTML

@benmacgowan <MAIN>

@benmacgowan <HGROUP>

@benmacgowan css

@benmacgowan css3

@benmacgowan -VENDOR-css3

@benmacgowan CSS4, WHAT?

@benmacgowan browsers hold the cards

@benmacgowan keeping up can be hard

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

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

@benmacgowan Skeleton designed by Sebastian Langer from The Noun Project

@benmacgowan

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

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

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

@benmacgowan

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

@benmacgowan

@benmacgowan Skeleton designed by Sebastian Langer from The Noun Project

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

@benmacgowan

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

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

@benmacgowan

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

@benmacgowan

@benmacgowan Be smart with your selectors

@benmacgowan 4095 rules 31 imports

@benmacgowan

@benmacgowan STRUCTURE Default _Dependencies _Foundations _Components _Regions _Theme PrinT

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

@benmacgowan

@benmacgowan no-one likes talking about JavaScript

@benmacgowan no-one likeD talking about JavaScript

@benmacgowan JavaScript != jQuery

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

@benmacgowan

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

@benmacgowan detect features, not platform

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

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

@benmacgowan clean house = clean mind

@benmacgowan Code can be beautiful too

@benmacgowan dON’T LEAVE REFACTORING UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE

@benmacgowan sET STANDARDS

@benmacgowan Form your own opinions

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

@benmacgowan Enter statement here

@benmacgowan keeping in the know

@benmacgowan browsers

@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/

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

@benmacgowan Thank you

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