Geoff Graham

The latest edition of Andy Bell’s Piccalilli landed in my inbox this morning with a sweet offer: preorder Andy’s course on learning Eleventy from scratch at a third of the price.

Why the plug? No, not sponsorships or anything like that. I just happen to hear a heckuva lot about Eleventy these days. Like how we can use it with Google Sheets as a pseudo-CMS. Or how it can be a key component of an emergency website kit. I … Read article “Learn Eleventy From Scratch”

Have you ever found yourself either writing a CSS selector that winds up looking confusing as heck, or seen one while reading through someone’s code? That happened to me the other day.

Here’s what I wrote:

.site-footer__nav a:hover svg ellipse:first-child { }

At the end of it, I honestly couldn’t even explain what it does to myself. LOL, that probably means there was a better way to write it.

But Hugo Giraudel has this handy new tool that will explain … Read article “Selectors Explained”

Just this morning, Chris shared a streamlined way to get a static site up and running with Netlify. As it happens, Sarah and I also wrote up a little something that expands that idea where a static site can pull content from WordPress using the REST API.

Using Vue, Nuxt, axios, and Netlify, it’s possible to get both the performance and continuous integration benefits of Jamstack with the powerful publishing and editing features of a CMS. It’s really … Read article “How To Create A Headless WordPress Site On The Jamstack”

I recently accepted a teaching position at a local college here in SoCal where I’ll be spouting off whatever I know (or more likely don’t know!) about HTML and CSS. It’s suffice to say I was all ears (well, actually eyes) when Rachel Andrew recently published a post on teaching CSS.

The display property is a core piece to understanding the layout possibilities of CSS, particularly, as Rachel points out, the outer value (block and inline) and … Read article “Now You See It”

Well, hey, look at that — it’s time for this year’s State of JavaScript survey!

You have taken this survey last year. Or in 2017. Or in 2016. It’s been going on for a little while now and it always lends interesting insights into things like the features developers are using, the popularity of specific frameworks, and general trends. And, since the survey is going into its fourth year, we may start to get some real insights … Read article “State of JavaScript 2019 Survey”