Artful Code & Resources
Web design & development resources for out-of-the-box thinkers
Articles
The web is a platform for innovation and creativity. Our articles explore the unorthodox and artistic approaches to building beautiful, ultra-high performance websites and webapps.
Test Driven Development
A quick summary of TDD
~5 min read
How To Create CSS Only Tooltips
Noscript tooltips
~5 min read
How To Create CSS Only Modals
Noscript modal windows
~6 min read
PWA And Cookies
GDPR compliancy and Progressive Web Applications
~3 min read
Optimising Image Delivery
Speed up image loading, without sacrificing quality
~7 min read
How To Prioritise Bugs
Digital defect management
~5 min read
Mastering CSS text-shadow
The good kind of shady characters.
~3 min read
Multithreaded JavaScript (Web Workers)
Weaving performance.
~7 min read
Core Web Vitals & SEO
Time for a checkup.
~12 min read
TypeScript vs JavaScript
Speaking the right dialect.
~3 min read
Mastering box-shadow
Shadow casting 101.
~7 min read
What The Heck Is this?!
A quick guide to a confusing value.
~4 min read
JS Closures Simplified
A beginner's guide to a tricky concept.
~4 min read
UI: Beauty vs Usability
Finding balance between aesthetics and efficiency.
~9 min read
MLC Styling
An experimental CSS technique which attempts to leverage the power of CSS, producing lean, efficient and hot-swappable styling.
~18 min read
Open Source Projects
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We love producing great code, so what better way to share the love than to open source some of our favourite bits that we've developed.
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Vanilla javascript helper & utility modules for common tasks & programmatically applying CSS transitions
Typographers Grid
A modernly traditional 12 column grid system with built in vertical rhythm
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