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Mar 11, 2021

Job Interviewing Techniques for Making a Great Impression

When I was pursuing my journalism degree at Mississippi State University, I took an interviewing class my senior year. No, not interviewing as in chatting with Meghan Markle while she spills the Heinz Beanz on her in-laws. I’m talking about job interviewing. The class was offered through MSU’s Communication Department…

Job Interview Tips

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Job Interviewing Techniques for Making a Great Impression

Published in Zoosk Engineering

·Mar 11, 2020

Customizing Tooltips with the Power of Sass Mixins

At Zoosk we have a UI component called a tooltip. It resembles a speech bubble and provides helpful information to our users. It appears when you either click on, tap on, or hover over another element. We have many tooltips on our desktop and mobile websites, and they come in…

Browsers

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Customizing Tooltips with the Power of Sass Mixins

Published in Zoosk Engineering

·Feb 17, 2020

General guidelines for making an accessible web page

I spent a few days watching Udacity’s accessibility course by Google to get a handle on basic accessibility techniques. It turns out that accessibility isn’t as daunting as it might sound. This article summarizes what I learned from this course. …

Web Accessibility

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General guidelines for making an accessible web page

Published in Zoosk Engineering

·Nov 16, 2019

To em or not to em? That is the media query question.

There’s a lot of debate on whether to use em or px for breakpoint units in media queries. A few years ago Luke Wroblewski demoed his site at An Event Apart using em breakpoints. When he increased the browser’s font size, the page morphed into a layout that better accommodated…

CSS

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To em or not to em? That is the media query question.

Published in Zoosk Engineering

·Nov 16, 2019

Standardizing input elements across browsers

In the last 16 years I’ve never had a project that required custom styles for disabled inputs. I know this because when I worked on such a project last week I was pulling my hair out. Most of us in the business know that browsers like to render inputs in…

Web Development

5 min read

Published in Zoosk Engineering

·Nov 8, 2018

Finally, A Responsive, Low-maintenance Interstitial

Update: As of 11/18/19 I found that Chrome 78 and Firefox 70 no longer render the padding-right: 100% on the interstitial__line pseudo elements. This caused the pseudo elements to have no width, but changing the percent unit to vw works. …

CSS

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Finally, A Responsive, Low-maintenance Interstitial

Published in Zoosk Engineering

·Sep 11, 2018

Mixins You Need in Your SCSS Library

As a CSS author I’ve typed many property-value pairs over and over again in different declaration blocks, and it gets really tedious. Our CSS developers here will tell you the same thing. Luckily we use Sass (and more specifically the SCSS syntax) so we’re able to group repeated properties together…

CSS

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Sep 10, 2018

Mixins You Need in Your SCSS Library

CSS

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Published in Zoosk Engineering

·Oct 13, 2017

Pseudotranslating Text in Your HTML Files

Our Zoosk products support 27 languages, so as one can imagine, the variety of translated text lengths can impact the user interface. Consider the following text in four languages: Want more views? Get 75 Boost! ¿Quieres recibir más vistas? ¡Obtén 75 Destacados! Vous voulez plus de consultations ? …

Web Development

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Pseudotranslating Text in Your HTML Files