All articles by Michael Trythall

If you squint at most websites, you’ll start to see the same repeated patterns. For example, a common product or service homepage might have the following structure: Navigation is usually logo to the left and navigation items to the right. …

Ranked among the top business schools in the country, Wharton specializes in training generations of executives to deliver insightful, transformative leadership. Founded over 135 years ago, Wharton was the first collegiate school of business in the United States. The institution …

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) do some of the most critical social and environmental work today, fostering civic engagement and leadership, driving economic growth, and strengthening communities. Every person in the US, and many throughout the world, benefit from the work of …

Evaluating a content management system (CMS) recently delivered to you can be challenging if you aren’t used to working in a CMS regularly. A solution can look good on the surface but be less than functional when you go to …

Asking how much a website costs is like asking how much a house costs. The answer depends on what you want. You’ll pay different prices for a two-bedroom cottage and a seven-bedroom rambler. In both cases, the difference can mean …

Whether you are a billion-dollar business, mom-and-pop shop, or mission-driven organization, your website is a key step along your audience’s journey, so it’s essential to get it right. You’ve known this from day one. But your organization isn’t static. It …

A content management system (CMS) makes managing and publishing content to your website a breeze. And most digital marketing teams adopt one of the popular ready-made platforms, like WordPress or Drupal, when first launching their business. However, as with any …

Linting SCSS with sass-lint Complex projects always require multiple developers and design heavy web sites are no exception. Sass/SCSS is still our language of choice when writing CSS, both for its wide support and flexibility. The latter can be a …

Element queries provide styling opportunities specific to an element’s dimensions. You could consider them the holy grail of responsive web design, allowing authors to determine an element’s look and feel regardless on where it’s placed. If given ample space you …

If you have ever built a form using Bootstrap you have undoubtedly worked with input groups. Input groups are an excellent way to provide contextual help via iconography or associate specific actions with the appropriate field. However, they can be …

CSS preprocessors have given us a handful of tools to re-architect our front-end code. We can keep things DRY with includes and extends or perhaps use nesting for code organization. All of these features allow a CSS rule to grow …

One perk Lincoln Loop and other companies with remote staff regularly cite is the lack of a commute. Nothing beats taking the Pajama Freeway to your home office. While reviewing my time entries for last year I started to wonder …

I recently came across this article from EightShapes detailing how they are sharing sketches in a remote environment. Lincoln Loop is entirely remote and we’ve run into the same problem, but I’ll admit we haven’t been as MacGyver about solving …