Welcome
EDITOR’S NOTE
FEATURED AUTHORS
WELCOME
Hello everybody, I’m Steven Jenkins and I’m
really excited to be taking over the reins of such
a prestigious title. I am very much looking forward to
bringing you my 20+ years experience in web design
and magazines to give you what you want.
It’s hard to believe that HTML has been around
longer than 20 years but 2020 marks the 30th
anniversary of HyperText Markup Language. Back in
1990, Tim Berners-Lee started working on the first
specification and by 1991 had sorted the specification
for the first 18 HTML tags. Things have changed (a
lot!) and in our latest lead feature, Matt Crouch takes
a look at the hottest tags that you should be using
to build standards-friendly sites that will keep youready for today and the future. Meanwhile, Adam
Kuhn takes a look at the support detection options
baked into the browser in the shape of CSS Feature
Queries. Find out what to do if a CSS property is not
supported in a specific browser.
Elsewhere, Joe Ford offers up a host of techniques
to optimise and speed up your WordPress websites,
while Vamsi Batchu gives a quick introduction on
how to use the Auto-Animate feature in Adobe XD.
Plus, get five quick tips from Merlyn Meredith for
making your content accessible to all. Enjoy.Steven Jenkins, Editor
@netmagMATT
CROUCH
Crouch is a front-end software
engineer who works with people
to make sure that their content is
accessible to everyone. On page 58,
he takes a closer look at the latest
HTML tags you should be using now.
w: http://www.mattcrouch.net
ADAM
KUHN
Kuhn is a front-end developer at Kong
Inc, frequent CodePen contributor
and creative code enthusiast with a
passion for animation and pizza. He
gives you an insight into CSS Feature
Queries and how they work.
w: https://codepen.io/cobra_winfreyJOE
FORD
Ford is a senior developer at Tillison
Consulting and has a passion for PHP,
WordPress and Laravel. On page 76,
he offers up a host of solutions to
optimise and speed up your
WordPress-based site.
w: https://tillison.co.ukMARK
SHUFFLEBOTTOM
Shufflebottom is professor of
interaction design at Sheridan
College. He explores how to make
designs transition between screens
to create eye-catching UX with the
rellax.js library on page 92.
w: http://webspaceinvader.com