Web designer + front-end developer with experience in high-traffic ecommerce sites for some well known brands.

Year Review 2022

There was a lot of good web stuff released in 2022. I had a year of learning more than ever. Here is what I put live.

PFD

I couldn’t help but keep refining things here:

  • Individual transform properties (transform, rotate, scale) for my logo and featured image shadow detail to reduce repetition.
  • Replacing top, right, bottom, left with inset: 0, for the featured image shadows.
  • Larger work images have WebP sources and homepage thumbnail images have hi-res srcset.

I also added my product design degree work.

Project

  • Brush Swap - When did you change your toothbrush? After revealing it in last year’s review (then called reToothbrush), I removed store.js for localstorage, added <dialog> confirmation and overhauled the design.
  • Continuing to improve Colordinates accessibility and added <output> tag.

Blog

  • Brush Swap, about my latest project, an app I built to remind me when my toothbrush needs replacing.
  • Elitricity, a dashboard of the UK’s energy grid use, updated to use Lit 2.0 components.
  • Updated HTML Memory Tested with more sightings. Its been great to see it appear in conference talks.

CodePen

  • HTML Memory Test required tweaking to correct some tags after, remarkably, someone completed it! Now passed 30,000+ views and 100+ likes.
  • Word Mood, a tool that shows the positive versus negative words ratio in pasted text.
  • El-pine-tricity, a fork of e-lit-itricity using Alpine JS. Part of my X-tricity collection, displaying the UK energy grid via different JS frameworks.

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Year Review 2022’ published by Paul Foster (www.paulfosterdesign.co.uk), a web designer / front-end developer, based in Cambridgeshire, UK.

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