September 2, 2022 Weekly Roundup of Web Design and Development News

In this week’s web design and development news roundup, you’ll find strategies for delivering content to your audience, find out what’s in the WordPress 6.0.2 version, discover how to inspect and debug CSS flexbox, and more.

If you’re new to my blog, each Friday I publish a post highlighting my favorite user experience, accessibility, WordPress, CSS, and HTML posts I’ve read in the past week.

Hope you find the resources helpful in your work or projects!

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Tweet of the Week

Perseverance and persistence are what tell you who you are and what you're made of and what you're worth.

That worth is NEVER dictated by anybody's opinion or idea of what you do or how you do it.

It IS dictated by your will to keep going forward, no matter the circumstance.

— Joe Natoli (@joenatoli) August 29, 2022

User Experience

• In how to champion human-centered design (HCD) and design research to stakeholders, Sara Fortier discusses the importance of stakeholder management and how to overcome their apprehension and objection for research.

• Focus on core differentiators when highlighting what customers will lose when they cancel their account with you, recommends Growth Design in their latest case study of Typeform’s customer offboarding.

  Even if people leave, they can still recommend your product for years if their last interaction was meaningful.

  Always end on a good note.

• Join UXr Guild, an online group for UX researchers, for their three-part online series: The Q&As of Quantitative Methods. The multi-session event kicks off Thursday, September 8th. The sessions are free, but preregistration is required.

• Despite website visitors’ short attention spans, you can take steps to keep your audience reading your content. Suzanne Dergacheva offers strategies and tips to help you deliver great content to your readers. First tip: know your audience.

Accessibility

• If you’re a content creator, designer, or developer, you’ll want to read and bookmark easy read that will demystify tables, reflow, and magnification. You’ll find helpful information and tips about how reflow affects information presentation and how it benefits people with low vision or mobility issues.

• I missed this helpful video last week. Rachele DiTullio continues her Accessibility Testing series with a third video: performing an accessibility test, where she highlights testing the mobile version of a page header. [43-minute video]

• When you reach the right person who takes action and makes changes to improve accessibility, you take the win. Which is why I’m celebrating four accessibility wins for images published on Twitter.

  

• Thanks to the Web Accessibility Initiative at the World Wide Web Consortium for this helpful guide. For your next remote or virtual, in-person, or hybrid meeting, presentation, training, or presentation make it inclusive for everyone with the making events accessible: checklist. I like how they organized the guide, with sections for organizers, presenters, and participants.

WordPress

• With the release of WordPress 6.0.2 this week, which includes patches for five security vulnerabilities, there are also patches for every version of WordPress since 3.7. Ram Gall at Wordfence explains what you need to know about the WordPress 6.0.2 security and maintenance release.

• The online WordPress training resource LearnWP published a variety of new resources in August 2022, including short, free videos for creating a landing page with a block theme and customizing your post content layout.

• It hasn’t been something I’ve heard talked about in the WordPress community in a while, but if you’re still working in the Classic Editor in 2022, be aware the Classic Editor plugin hasn’t been updated in about a year. And says it’s compatible through WordPress 5.8.4.

• It’s a lot easier to access and navigate your WordPress.com sites, thanks to a new centralized Sites page at WordPress.com/Sites. Nice to have a site filter as well as the option to view in grid or list view.

• Congrats to Bud Kraus, who was recognized for his work in the community in this week’s People of WordPress: Bud Kraus. Appreciate all his contributions to WordPress as a trainer, teacher, and writer. Check out his Learn WordPress and WordCamp presentations on WordPress.tv.

• In the second of a three-part series on block patterns, Nick Diego walks you through building pages with page creation patterns. First introduced in WordPress 6.0, you’ll need to install the Gutenberg plugin to expand functionality of page creation patterns.

CSS and HTML

• Learn how to use the Flexbox Editor in Chrome DevTools to change flexbox properties and toggle the flexbox overlay to see real-time changes in this three-minute video on how to inspect and debug CSS flexbox.

• The new Behind the CSScenes from CSS-Tricks catches you up on the transition after Digital Ocean’s acquisition, top findings from the June 2022 survey on the future of CSS-Tricks, and an upcoming redesign.

• Ahmad Shadeed is excited, and I can’t blame him! As he explains in his intro to CSS container queries are finally here. Shadeed takes a deep dive into how container queries work and how to use them in your projects.

  Are you ready to see the new game-changer CSS feature?

What I Found Interesting

• Stunning. London’s National History Museum published their highly commended entries ahead of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year winner announcement on October 11, 2022. Check out 14 striking wildlife photos showing nature at its most beautiful and harrowing.

• Stuck in a conversation and trying to find a way to end it quickly and gracefully? Meredith Diaz offers several strategies for ending an annoying conversation without being rude. One method: ask for contact information so you can connect with them later.

• After reviewing code from a developer he’s mentoring, Shawn Hooper was stuck. The readme file was a default file and didn’t provide details needed to understand and get the application running. I appreciate Hooper’s explanation of what’s needed in a good readme file as well as the importance of a readme file for your team members and you.

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