What do you notice about the website above? It doesn’t have a navigation bar. The text links are floating in space and obscured by the background image. Navigation is there for users to find what they want. That’s hard for them to do without the navigation bar. The navigation bar is an affordance. Users rely […]
Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web
The end of the year is an opportunity to clean up and reset for the upcoming new semester. I found myself clearing out old bookmarks—yes, bookmarks: that formerly beloved browser feature that seems to have lost the battle to 'address bar autocomplete'. But this nostalgic act of tidying led me to despair.
Navigation queues | Navigation cues
A web-essay written by Domitille Debret, designed and developed by F451 for The HTML Review Issue 04, Spring 2025.
Motherfucking Website
You probably build websites and think your shit is special. You think your 13 megabyte parallax-ative home page is going to get you some fucking Awwward banner you can glue to the top corner of your site. You think your 40-pound jQuery file and 83 polyfills give IE7 a boner because it finally has box-shadow. Wrong, motherfucker. Let me describe your perfect-ass website:
What is Getting Real | Getting Real
Heads up! This page uses features your browser doesn’t support. Try a modern browser like Firefox or Chrome for the best experience.
Quite A Strange.Website Indeed
Well now, seems you've found a strange and perhaps surprising website, indeed. As with all things, take and enjoy your time — after all, no one may but you.
Bluesky Sidebar - Chrome Web Store
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Funding The Web: A Wise Choice
The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!
Bluesky Sidebar – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download Bluesky Sidebar for Firefox. See what people are saying about the site you're on
I Turned Off JavaScript in My Web Browser for a Whole Week and It Was Glorious
There's another web out there, a better web hiding just below the surface of the one we surf every day. To find it, you just have to uncheck one little box.
Designing for Colour-Blindness
As always, I’ve been tinkering with the site over the last few weeks. One of the adjustments I made was to remove the underlines from links, which I felt mad...
Link Cleaner
Link Cleaner is a web app for removing tracking code, search parameters, and other junk from URL links.
Coding the sidebar navigation element for documentation websites
Sidebar navigation is one of the more complex components of a documentation site, and it is critical for helping users understand and find documentation. I hacked together a sidebar menu for a doc site that’s hosted on a somewhat inflexible platform, using Jekyll to generate the sidebar. Important features of a documentation sidebar include multiple levels of depth, expand/collapse options, accordion effects, fixed navigation, dynamic menu highlighting, and more.
The thing that I find missing from most new blogging software, which includes even not-so-new ones like Ghost, is decent Archives navigation. I want to see per-year, per-month, per-tag, per-category nav. I came up in Wordpress and it is the only thing WP still does better than everyone by default.
