Remember Ceefax? Even if the name doesn’t ring a bell, you’ll probably recall the bright, blocky text and painfully slow loading times. Back in 1974, how else were you supposed to check the latest football scores - wait for Match of the Day?

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CSS is the go-to technology for making sites look how we want. But there's a new box of tricks coming to JavaScript that could make styling that little bit more unique.

CSS Houdini

Modern web development takes components for granted. Frameworks like React are built upon their existence and we're integrating their approaches into other parts of the web like CSS.

Build your own web components

If we're not careful, styling React applications can get messy fast. In the latest Net Magazine, we go through a library that aims to take the pain away.

Style React components with Emotion

HTML doesn't get the attention it deserves. It's at the core of every page, site and application on the web but it's often forgotten about.

30 HTML, CSS and JS APIs

CSS in large projects - particularly applications with frameworks like React - can be difficult to scale. Stylesheets tend to inflate over time when developers become too scared to delete old styles just in case they get used somewhere else. Even if they do, in component-based designs, there's every chance the styles and the code behind it become separated and lost when copying across projects.

Styling React with Fela

Compared to JavaScript, CSS doesn't seem to get as much fun stuff. Sure, there's things like CSS Grid and snap points, but nothing quite on the level of, say, service workers. Well, with Houdini they both come together and that's all going to change. In the latest Web Designer, we check out the first piece of the puzzle landing in browsers - the CSS Paint API.

Playing with the CSS Paint API

In this month's Web Designer we take a look at something desperately lacking on the web - smooth performance with animations.

Create Silky Smooth UIs with CSS and JS

At Cinolla we're busy rebuilding the booking portal. Since shipping it a couple of years ago, the needs of the clients (and the number of clients) has shifted somewhat. More and more centres require it for several different things. With each centre's attendees being completely different, we need a solution that works for them all.

Developing company themes for Cinolla's new React-Powered Portal

As you may have noticed, my site's gone through a bit of a redesign as of late. My portfolio site in particular shows a couple of little ideas I had.

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