Eleventy (aka 11ty) is rising in the ranks among static site generators. This Node-based builder is attractive due to its zero-config starting point, purely static output, and ease of achieving the coveted top Lighthouse performance score of four perfect 100s. Let's dive into what else makes it unique, and learn about some essential concepts to help you successfully get started.

Google Analytics is one of the most useful online tools available that helps you track the performance of your website by determining how many visitors visited your website, their demographics, during which period they came, and how much time they spent browsing your website. It also helps you to monitor the effectiveness of your online...

There is a new thing coming in CSS: @layer. As with all new things, it takes time to really wrap your head around it. And despite me tapping at my keyboard about it, full disclosure, I’m not sure my … The post Cascade Layers? appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

This week's Designer News (N.399) includes a WordPress Starter Theme, a PHP Bot, Open Source Multimedia Creation, Really Good UX, Minimal Page Transitions, Retiring the Green Padlock, Dangerous Design Trends 2017 and more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 399 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Many times we need to decouple different parts of our application and still want communication between these parts. Events come in quite handy in such situations. In this post, we will look at how to use the NestJS Event Emitter. NestJS has its own Event Emitter package. It provides a simple observer implementation. This allows us to subscribe and listen to various events.

Realistic device photos can show off a mobile app while still under development or just after release. These photos are perfect for marketing and for demonstrating how an application would function on a real device. Since it’s not always possible... The post Mobile Device Mockup Templates for Web & UI Designers appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

With Halloween coming up this week, I figured it would be an ideal time to produce another morbid inspiration showcase featuring skulls! Portraits of people lacking their skin and flesh seems to be a weirdly popular subject for many artists and illustrators, with skulls and skeletons being depicted in all kinds of art styles ranging […] The post Showcase of Creepy Illustrations Featuring Skulls and Skeletons appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

To be deemed a competitive and successful brand, you have to develop a thorough brand book. The set of rules in a brand book present valuable ideas and pointers for the future, as well as define the entire direction of your brand. For a sustainable, long-term business model, a detailed brand book is essential. If...

(This is a sponsored post.) In this article, we will discuss how we can apply schema stitching across multiple Fauna instances. We will also discuss how to combine other GraphQL services and data sources with Fauna in one graph.… The post Implementing a single GraphQL across multiple data sources appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

You can find amazing tools for improving web forms, ranging from UI kits to advanced jQuery plugins. But one of the toughest input fields to edit is the upload field.... The post 9 Custom Open Source File Upload Field Snippets appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.