Jake Rocheleau

Jake is a writer and designer with over 10 years experience working on the web. He writes about user experience design and cool resources for designers

Latest posts

Build a GitHub-Hosted Blog with Jekyll Now

Jekyll is a platform used for static websites that just want to publish content quickly. The biggest issue with Jekyll is the reliance on command line…

Build Powerful 3D Browser Games with BabylonJS

The explosive growth of WebGL proves the popularity of gaming on the web. There are lots of cool things you can build on WebGL, but most developers wa…

Add Simple Image Tooltip Labels with Taggd

You know how Facebook lets you label faces in photos? Well, Taggd is kinda like the CSS/JS equivalent using dots to notate where tooltips should appea…

How to Add Styles to TinyMCE & Markdown Content

Many writers prefer working in Markdown because it’s a simpler language with fewer hurdles to climb. Granted it is far from perfect, but it offers a…

Add Pre-Designed Buttons to Your Site with Butns.css

Frontend frameworks, such as Bootstrap, come with their own button styles, but they don’t usually have much variety. The free Butns library offers a…

Create a Print-Friendly Page with Gutenberg.css

Web designers often forget about print because it seems much less necessary nowadays. And this may be true for digital sites like BuzzFeed. However, o…

Open Color – UI-Optimized color scheme for designers

How much time do you waste toying around while choosing the right colors scheme for your designs? With Open Color you have access to a predefined colo…

Teach yourself CSS Flexbox with the Flexbox Froggy Game

In the past we’ve glossed over flexbox and the basics of how it works. But actually applying flexbox to your workflow can be challenging because itâ…

Create Custom WordPress Themes with Underscores Components

You might already know about Underscores, often abbreviated as _s, which is a popular starter theme for WordPress. This is a big project maintained by…

Libraries.io – Open Source Search Engine For Developers

There are millions of open source projects online with new ones being launched every day. Developers from all backgrounds flock to open source because…

MaintainableCSS: Online Guide to Maintainable CSS Code

Writing CSS is pretty simple once you understand the syntax and methods to structure a page. But mastering CSS to create modular, semantic, and reusab…

Flexbox Patterns: The Ultimate CSS Flexbox Code Library

The newest CSS flexbox property has radically changed the way developers create interfaces. No more floats and CSS hacks to get layouts aligned perfec…