This article is a sponsored by Luzmo In this article, I’ll introduce you to Luzmo Flex, a new feature from the Luzmo team who have been working hard making developer tooling to flatten the on-ramp for analytics reporting and data visualization. With Luzmo Flex, you can hook up a dataset and create beautifully crafted, fully…
A search bar is one of the most common features on any website. So common in fact, that you’d be hard-pressed to find a website that deals with data in one form or another and doesn’t have a search bar. Even the most visited webpage in the world consists almost entirely of a search bar:…
Consider the early days of the internet, when websites like NBC News and Amazon cluttered their pages with flashing banners and labyrinthine menus. In the early 2000s, Steve Krug’s book Don’t Make Me Think arrived like a lighthouse in a storm, advocating for simplicity and user-centric design. Today’s digital world is flooded with choices, information,…
In previous tutorials we’ve learned how to create different types of charts including bar charts, thermometer charts, and donut charts. Today we’ll continue this journey by building a CSS-only organizational chart. Ready to test your CSS skills? The Organizational Chart We’re Building Here’s the CSS chart we’ll be creating: It consists of four levels and…
Google Analytics is great, but not everyone in your organization will be granted access. In many places I’ve worked, it was on a kind of “need to know” basis. In this article, I’m gonna flip that on its head and show you how I wrote a GitHub Action that queries Google Analytics, generates a top…
If you want to send emails in Python, use a reliable and secure email API solution. In this article, you’ll learn the step-by-step process of sending emails in Python using the API method. Setting up Email API To streamline email sending in Python, you can use a transactional email service such as Mailtrap, Gmail API,…
I was recently asked by a student to help with a seemingly simple problem. She’d been working on a website for a coffee shop that sports a sticky header, and she wanted the hero section right underneath that header to span the rest of the available vertical space in the viewport. Here’s a visual demo…
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been a cornerstone of online visibility for years. However, many people wonder: does SEO still work in 2024? The short answer is yes—SEO remains highly relevant and effective. But it has evolved, and understanding how it works today can make all the difference for anyone wanting to increase their website’s…
Read to the end for a tiny yet extremely majestic lion. In today’s edition: The truth behind the classic “average person eats 3 spiders per year” factoid. Tips that’ll make organizing your taxonomies a little less, uh… taxing. America’s finest news source, The Onion, is now powered by our old friend WP. Hot Off The…
In the early days of the web, I remember how annoying it was when print designers would claim they could design websites, too. They assumed that just because they could design for one medium, they could design for the other. That assumption often led to bad user experiences. The skills for effective web design are…
