Posts By Richard Walker

If a webpage's layout was an itch and Media Queries are a long, scratchy stick (that is really great but doesn't quite hit the spot), CSS Container Queries are the little claw that turns that plain old stick into a fully fledged back scratcher.

Have you ever visited a website on a nice, big monitor and thought how easy it is to use while navigating through pages and completing forms with your mouse? Have you ever then visited that website on your mobile or, god forbid, smart TV at a later date and wanted to throw your device or remote out of the window in frustration? Have you ever got tired of long, tedious questions who’s purpose is simply to lead into a larger point? Sure you have!

The way websites are built changes pretty rapidly these days. Cargo are delving into a few of new approaches to get up and running with a website, starting with JAMStack.

With the steady increase in incoming work, we've been looking for multiple new additions for the Cargo team. We're pleased to say we've found some and this week we're shouting about Matt, our new front-end developer.

I can’t fit into a rabbit hole - well, maybe I could with the help of a tiny, bottled beverage - but I find myself metaphorically falling head over heels down, into and around them on a regular basis.

Due to an ever growing client base and some exciting new projects we are looking for another developer to join our growing team.

Working with CSS for a website’s layout has always been a little bit hacky. Not that using floats or display: inline-block; haven’t served their purpose, it’s just they aren’t the right tools for job; they were never meant to be used for layout and structure. In the past, there have been many workarounds to make a website look like it has structure, some of which had some pros but a higher number of cons.

I love animation, some would say I’m Bonkers about it (see what I did there? No? That's okay, Dizzee Rascal gets it). In the days when Flash was the go-to tool for web animation I was all over it - Drawing up silly faces and making them blink, making a little square ‘walk’ across the canvas (look out Disney, here I come!).

When Satoshi Tajiri created the Pokemon franchise in 1996 (based off of his childhood hobby of collecting insects!), the technology behind augmented reality was mainly just a fixture of sci-fi fantasies. Now here we are twenty years later and we have people young and old running around trying to catch Pokemon on their mobile phones.

Going fully ‘headless’ is quite a challenge, both in practice and concept, when you’re used to managing websites built on platforms like WordPress. The potential benefits can be well worth considering when starting a new project.