Category Archives: CSS

Hebog typography

Poking at my <kbd>

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I’ve had a really productive day working on the typography for a client’s site, and along the way I found myself giving the much-overlooked <kbd> element a bit of a spruce-up. Not that the client will likely be using the element much, but the thought struck me I hadn’t really done anything much to style…

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Failed Lighthouse test

Fixing the NO_LCP error in Lighthouse

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I redesigned this site recently. You might have noticed. Maybe not if it’s your first time here, that’s ok too. Those full page splash images with everything fading into view look pretty snazzy but there’s one small problem: the Lighthouse test’s Largest Contentful Paint test fails to pick up on any element that starts at…

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Automatically marking HTTPS links

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Encryption is becoming more and more essential on the modern Web. The next iteration of the HTTP protocol, http/2, will require SSL everywhere, and if you’re still using HTTP 1.1 it’s still highly recommended. Let’s Encrypt is a free automated certificate authority that makes it easy to request and renew basic SSL certificates automatically so…

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