Four fears holding us back as developers

Fear is an innate human emotion induced in response to a danger or threat whether real or otherwise. Fear stops us from walking in front of a bus or picking up spiders. Fear can also push us into making poor decisions or cripple us into inaction. While ... more

Get revved up at SmashingConf!

We’re proud to announce that Heart Internet are once again sponsors of SmashingConf – this time at St Luke’s Church in London on the 7th and 8th of February. This year, SmashingConf is focusing on web performance, everything from third-party scripts ... more

Should you use CSS or JavaScript for web animations?

When should you use CSS for animations? When should you use JavaScript for animations? Is one better than the other? Should you always try to use CSS to animate your components as much as you can? What about “hardware acceleration”? These questions ran ... more

11 WordPress sites that pushed the envelope in 2017

Nearly 30% of the world’s websites now run on WordPress, which makes it the most popular web development platform. As a content management system WordPress has a market share of 60%, leaving the competition far behind (second in line is Joomla with a ... more

A Beginner’s Guide to Chatbots and Conversational Interfaces

Forget newsletters, forget websites, forget mobile applications. It’s nearly 2018, and the next customer-focused digital channel has just landed. Chatbots are here, they’re conversational and they are the base layer of this new channel. Everyone is talking ... more

Build your SEO skills with the top takeaways from SearchLove 2017

SearchLove is one of the world’s leading SEO conferences and this year’s London event was another chance to get advice from some of the top minds in online marketing. In case you missed it, or in case you were there and need a recap, we’ve put together ... more

Mastering Git

Writing code and managing a good workflow is a challenge. Things can easily get messy, and bugs can appear from seemingly nowhere. This is where Git comes in. No matter who you are, or how much code you write on a daily basis, using Git will change your ... more

A fearless guide to using CSS Grid today

My fellow CSS developers, I know you’ve been burned before with tales of exciting new CSS specifications that won’t be ready to use in production for years. I’m here to tell you, those days are in our past and the brightest example of our future is with ... more

Integrating SVG into your site

Support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is now excellent across all modern browsers, and the image format appears in sometimes surprising contexts on many different kinds of web pages. But despite existing as a standard for almost two decades, SVG ... more

Discover the Power of CSS Transforms

With a single line of CSS we can completely reorient any element on our page – we can move it, rotate it, resize it, or send it into another dimension (to an extent). This all comes to us via the transform property. While it is a single property, a lot ... more

5-and-a-half new features to make you love Joomla! again

We’re delighted to have London-based web designer Piers Aitman offer his views on the future of Joomla! The classical wisdom when choosing a CMS is that WordPress, the monolithic market leader, is great for simple sites, while the two other open-source ... more

15 ways to hide your email address

We’ve all seen it. The customer wants their email address on their site. You add it, but then they have a new complaint – there’s too much spam. While spam filters can stop them from appearing in the inbox, it’s even better to prevent the email addresses ... more

20 things to consider when creating your first Node.js application

We’re delighted to have Zell Liew writing for us today. Known for his practical and easy-to-understand tutorials, he gets into Node.js and how you can use it to create your first app. Have you heard of JavaScript? It used to be a scripting language that’s ... more

50 superb CSS tutorials to sharpen your web design skills for 2017

We’re very excited to have Oliver Lindberg writing articles for Heart Internet. An independent editor, content consultant, and founder of Pixel Pioneers, Oliver was formerly the editor of .net magazine and has been involved with the web design and development ... more