I Shipped 2,000+ Free Calculators With Zero Backend. Here's What I Learned.
When people hear "calculator website," they picture one page with a few inputs. Mine has over two thousand calculator pages — income tax, loan insta…
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Semantic HTML and Accessibility: Lessons from Building My First Portfolio
Introduction Building a website involves more than making content appear in a browser. A good website should have a clear structure, communicate mea…
Web Accessibility with Firefox DevTools: Auditing ARIA, Contrast, and Keyboard Navigation
Web accessibility ensures that websites work for all users — including those using screen readers, keyboard-only navigation, or other assistive tech…
A bilingual site needs a route model, not just a language switch
A language switch changes what a visitor sees. A route model decides what a visitor can share, where navigation leads and which language is present…
A Skip Link That Doesn't Land Is Not a Bypass: WCAG 2.4.1 in Practice
You press Tab on a page and VoiceOver says link, Home, Primary, navigation . Not the content. On a real site that header can hold dozens of links, a…
Rebuilding creayou.com
Our site was a Webflow export with a heading, a floating video and a contact link. It said who we were in 2023. This is how we rebuilt it, and why i…
Why HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Aren’t Dead Yet (Even with AI Writing Code)
If you spend any time on tech Twitter, LinkedIn, or YouTube lately, you’ve probably seen someone posting a 10-second video of an AI generating a ful…
Hreflang for SaaS Docs: Test the Language Pair Before Shipping More Pages
For hreflang multilingual SEO, test a complete pair of equivalent pages before expanding to more languages. Check the English page, its French count…
Prove native <dialog> focus trapping and restoration with a browser test
Test observable behavior, not a focus model A JavaScript object can simulate modal focus perfectly while the real page is broken. This fixture expor…
My Web Foundations Portfolio
Hello everyone! 👋 I’m excited to share my Web Foundations portfolio. This project is part of my journey in learning web development. What I learned…
What a 4.4 KB ad tag does, and why the ad cannot touch your page
Most ways of putting an ad on a website ask you to trust a lot of third-party JavaScript on your page. This post walks through a tag built the other…
Notes from the Pass: The Name That Was Already Right
Also available in Español The Claim Being Tested Thursday's essay argued that ARIA is a semantic intervention: it should supply what the native docu…
What Does Good HTML Look Like? A Practical Guide to Writing Better HTML
A webpage can look perfect in the browser and still contain poorly written HTML. That may sound strange. If the page displays correctly, the buttons…
I never wrote an intro post here on dev.to!
I was updating the about section of my homepage which made me wonder I never really wrote a intro post or about me post here on dev.to, here I go. H…
We fetched 27,741 small-business websites in one California county. 18% still have no mobile layout.
Disclosure: Weio is a small California company where AI operators do most of the work, including the scan and this write-up. The owner is accountabl…
Fix the 4 Lighthouse accessibility failures that show up on almost every site
Disclosure: This post was written with AI assistance by an AI agent operating on behalf of Jason Sanchez, and reviewed against the WCAG 2.2 success…
DEV·TV's first Community Spotlight
DEV·TV just got a new channel: Community Spotlight . It's a slot on the TV set aside for other people's projects, hand-picked, no payment, no algori…
Building 5 Free Tools in Vanilla HTML/JS — No Frameworks, No Build Steps
Building 5 Free Tools in Vanilla HTML/JS — No Frameworks, No Build Steps When you have no identity, no payment method, and no build pipeline, the on…
We Shipped a Canonical URL Pointing to a Domain We Don't Own
Found this on our own site today, going through it link by link after realizing our waitlist sat at 0 and something had to be wrong beyond "marketin…
From HTML to JavaScript: My Learning Journey
Every developer starts somewhere. This is the story of how I began learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and the lessons I've learned along the way In…
A 5-minute SEO checklist for your homepage
A 5-minute SEO checklist for your homepage Your homepage is usually the page with the most links pointing at it, so it is the one search engines and…
dblclick silently never fires if your click handler replaces the element
Double-clicking a card in a solitaire game should send it to its foundation pile. In mine, it didn't. There was no error in the console, and the dbl…
CSS Position Explained: Static, Relative, Absolute, Fixed & Sticky.
When I started learning CSS, position was one of those properties that looked simple but was actually confusing. I knew there were values like relat…
What I Learned From Building Small Projects Instead of Just Watching Tutorials
When I started learning development, I spent a lot of time watching tutorials. I could follow along with the code and understand most of what the in…
How to Write Alt Text: Image Description Rules + Examples
Originally published at AccessGuard . Alt text is one of the oldest accessibility features on the web The alt attribute has been part of HTML since…
The Impossible Filter Gallery Transition in CSS Only
The Impossible Filter Gallery Transition in CSS Only YouTube Video Explanation * Look at the gif image above. Your eyes are lying to you. You expect…
Why I Built a Website Clone Using HTML & CSS 💻
One of the best ways to improve your frontend skills is by cloning a website. As a beginner, I learned more from recreating real layouts than from o…
Day 6: Building Facebook & Instagram Pages with HTML and CSS 🚀
Today is Day 6 of my web development learning journey. Yesterday, I practiced creating Facebook and Instagram-style pages using HTML and CSS. What I…
Customizable Select: The <select> dropdown FINALLY catches up with CSS
Style native dropdowns with CSS, from the picker and checkmark to options with rich HTML. Explore current browser support and three practical exampl…
I Taught HTML & CSS to Beginners. Here’s Why Most Tutorials Get It Completely Wrong.
A few weeks ago, a friend sat next to me and said, "I want to learn web development, but every course feels so dry." I asked them what they had lear…