Category overview for “Best practise”.

• A mobile development strategy

  

  Nowadays more and more interactive projects have a mobile component. This article lays out a strategy that I think would work for a mobile website. As there as so many different devices and screen…

• Non-blocking JavaScript roundup

  

  Non-blocking JavaScript has been a hot topic for a while now. I am going to try to explain why JavaScript blocks the browser while rendering a page and how you can solve this issue. This article is a… 8 comments

• Progressive enhancement: you have to do it together to make it work

  

  This is an article about how we can deal with progressive enhancement when used with real-life projects, by real-life projects I mean the big projects with demanding clients that we are all familiar… 2 comments

• About jQuery and performance

  

  Once upon a time, all we needed to worry about was reducing Bytes and Requests and playing around with load order to make things faster. Nowadays, we are increasingly impacting one more major… 1 comment

• The myth of the page fold

  

  As web professionals, we all know that the concept of the page fold being an impenetrable barrier for users is a myth. Over the last 6 years cxpartners have watched over 800 user testing sessions and…

• Cross-browser @font-face support

  

  At the moment, web fonts are all the buzz. After reading this post, you designer will love you! It describes how the usage @font-face works cross-browser.

• How to effectively communicate with developers.

  

  If you have ever worked with a developer or a development team, this article will probably strike close to home. As designers, we work with dozens of developers across the globe each year. Some of us…

• Hands on rules for a fast website.

  

  It is no secret that users prefer faster web sites. But what happens during the time a user waits for a page to load? The key insight is the realization that only 10-20% of the total end-user…

• The basics of web typography.

  

  This post is about web typography and it's recipe of four fundamental ingredients. Typography is cool, hip and artful. Therefore it's a shame that it's basic requirements are almost never met by web…

• Cross-browser rounded corners.

  

  Round corners. Something that should be easy, right? Not so much. It seems they were left out of the CSS 2.1 specification. No matter, there are a couple of ways to hack them out and make them look…