Frank M Taylor

Frank M Taylor https://blog.frankmtaylor.com blog Sun, 17 May 2026 01:22:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 You don’t know HTML Lists https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/05/13/you-dont-know-html-lists/ https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/05/13/you-dont-know-html-lists/#comments Wed, 13 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/?p=4508 Reading Time: 13 minutesThis second installment in the "You don't know HTML" series is going to be all about the ways that we put collections of things together]]> https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/05/13/you-dont-know-html-lists/feed/ 8 You Don’t Know HTML Tables https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/03/05/you-dont-know-html-tables/ https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/03/05/you-dont-know-html-tables/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:26:45 +0000 https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/?p=4330 Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a deep dive into HTML tables that cover its vocabulary & parts, Table Object Model, Cell headers, and the semantic value of table headers and footers]]> https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/03/05/you-dont-know-html-tables/feed/ 1 How to Manage CSS Performance for Websites https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/09/23/how-to-manage-css-performance-for-websites/ https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/09/23/how-to-manage-css-performance-for-websites/#respond Tue, 23 Sep 2025 05:50:47 +0000 https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/?p=4438 Reading Time: 14 minutesEvery once in a while someone asks specifically about how to manage CSS performance for a website. What if there's a lot of components? What if there's a lot of animations? What if there's a lot of just CSS?]]> https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/09/23/how-to-manage-css-performance-for-websites/feed/ 0 America by Design is Deplorable for All https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/08/28/america-by-design-is-deplorable-for-all/ https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/08/28/america-by-design-is-deplorable-for-all/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:15:15 +0000 https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/?p=4362 Reading Time: 11 minutesOne of the first deliveries of the National Design Studio is AmericaByDesign — which is deplorable for all. ]]> https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/08/28/america-by-design-is-deplorable-for-all/feed/ 2 Promising a change to an object https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/07/23/promising-a-change-to-an-object/ https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/07/23/promising-a-change-to-an-object/#respond Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:57:19 +0000 https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/?p=4321 Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes I get stuck with a problem that I don’t really like: When I can’t execute my little bit of code until another bit of code executes, and there’s no events coming from that other code to tell me that it’s⠀run. When I find myself in the situation where I need something off of an

]]> https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/07/23/promising-a-change-to-an-object/feed/ 0 CSS Hyphens, Words, Syllables, and Languages https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/07/17/css-hyphens-words-syllables-and-languages/ https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/07/17/css-hyphens-words-syllables-and-languages/#respond Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:00:00 +0000 https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/?p=4296 Reading Time: 6 minutesThere's a newish CSS feature called hyphens that specifies how you want words to be hyphenated when the text wraps. But if you use it, you're going to need to make sure you're also correctly identifying the language. And to understand why that matters, we need to talk about words and syllables.]]> https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/07/17/css-hyphens-words-syllables-and-languages/feed/ 0 A Small Guide for Writing Comments in Front-end Code https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/07/03/a-small-guide-for-writing-comments-in-front-end-code/ https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/07/03/a-small-guide-for-writing-comments-in-front-end-code/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/?p=3892 Reading Time: 14 minutesHygenic code is commented code. But often, it can be difficult to understand where, when, or even how to comment your front end code. So I'd like to share a small guide for writing comments in your front-end that makes the developer experience better for everyone.]]> https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/07/03/a-small-guide-for-writing-comments-in-front-end-code/feed/ 2 Better selecting with a better :nth-child() https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/07/02/better-selecting-with-a-better-nth-child/ https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/07/02/better-selecting-with-a-better-nth-child/#respond Wed, 02 Jul 2025 22:00:00 +0000 https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/?p=4272 Reading Time: 3 minutesSo the :nth-child structural pseudo class is mighty handy already since it lets you select based on mathematical rules. But to my surprise, it got handier and no one told me. Which makes me think no one told you, either: :nth-child() can do filtering now! A Quick Primer on Structural Pseudo-classesWatermark:FrankMTaylor So I wrote about

]]> https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/07/02/better-selecting-with-a-better-nth-child/feed/ 0 How Front-end Developers Can Participate in Content Management and Architecture https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/03/13/how-front-end-developers-can-participate-in-content-management-and-architecture/ https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/03/13/how-front-end-developers-can-participate-in-content-management-and-architecture/#respond Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:00:47 +0000 https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/?p=4210 Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve complained in the past about how I don’t like application architectures being led by the front-end team. Rather than complain some more, I want to talk about how front-end developers could meaningfully participate in the architecture of a project — particularly the CMS part. I want to talk about how front-end developers can be

]]> https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/03/13/how-front-end-developers-can-participate-in-content-management-and-architecture/feed/ 0 The Look and Song of Language https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/02/24/the-look-and-song-of-language/ https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/02/24/the-look-and-song-of-language/#comments Tue, 25 Feb 2025 05:05:43 +0000 https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/?p=4170 Reading Time: 16 minutesEveryone speaks at least one language. It’s fascinating how we learned that first language, too. Without any formal instruction, we heard it, repeated it, and found ourselves effective communicators within about seven years. And in that time, we learned what our language sounded like, too. Even if we grew up in a multilingual culture we

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