287: Dad Talk Show
Dave and new dad Chris are here answering your web devlopment questions about PSD to pixels, leveling up on accessibility, gaining access to WordPress theme files, and editorial workflows for web publishing.
Guests
Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert
This episode is with just Chris & Dave, ShopTalk Show's hosts. Chris is the co-founder of CodePen and creator of CSS-Tricks, and Dave is lead developer at Paravel.
Time Jump Links
- 1:15 Chris enters the Dad Zone.
- 2:50 attr() function follow-up.
- 5:20 ems vs px follow-up
- 11:50 Dave keeps blogging weird.
- 12:30 Conference review
- 18:50 Sometimes the designer understands my job as to translate psd to code pixel perfect, some time its resulting in a very bulky code. How you deal with such cases?
- 24:50 I understand accessibility basics - however, I know there is a lot more to accessibility. Is there an accessibility checklist that you guys use?
- 36:34 Follow-up to getting access to WordPress theme files when you don't have FTP access and a discussion on version control.
- 42:50 Have you guys tried out Mavo?
- 50:52 I'm curious about what kinds of editorial workflows you employ at CSS-Tricks and elsewhere?
Links
- CSS Tricks: The CSS attr() function got nothin’ on custom properties
- DaveRupert.com: Dave Listening to Any song by the Police
- DaveRupert.com: Is Heart the Greatest Rock Band Ever
- Roll20
- CSS Def Conf
- Beyond Tellerand
- Deque Labs aXe Core / GitHub
- a11y Project / a11y Checklist
- Adminer
- Mavo.io
- CouchCMS
- Pandoc
- Dropbox Paper
- Notion