J Scott Smith

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Articles - January 22nd, 2015

Drop Sprites or Icon Fonts and Just Use SVG

Early last year I completely dropped spriting in Compass for icon fonts, but about a month after using icon fonts I discovered how much better and convenient SVGs can be. Now I use them exclusively and enthusiastically. This is just a brief rundown of how I utilize SVG into my workflow using Grunt and grunt-svgstore to build SVG sprites.

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Articles - January 17th, 2015

Automatic Deployments with Git Hooks

This article will cover how to set up automatic deployments using Git’s post-receive hook. Once configured you will be able to push changes to a live server and run tasks needed to deploy your site/app automatically.

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Articles - October 28th, 2014

Using Picturefill for Responsive, Art Directed Images in Statamic

Nowadays, users expect a website to look great no matter what device they’re using but this can get tricky with viewport sizes and ratios being so drastically different from one another. Picturefill is a tool that enables support for the <picture> element, a developing polyfill that is quickly becoming a standard and will enable the ability to art direct images based on device sizes. I’m going to run through how I’ve used it in conjunction with Statamic’s image transform tag.

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