This article argues that the designer focus on the home page is misplaced today as more and more people are entering the sites through shared landing pages, targeted search, and AI links. While I think the author goes too far and think that the home page is still very important, there is some truth to the argument and some of the article suggestions are worth considering.

This looks like it will expand the designer’s options. The corner-shape property is used in conjunction with border-radius to define the shape of the curve. Currently at about 66% coverage it is still experimental, but the article suggests using it today as a progressive enhancement.

The Divi team seems to be responding to user feedback that there is a learning curve to setting up Divi 5 by offering a free “Design System”. The download includes CSS variables, presets, section and page layouts, templates, and Customizer settings.

I have avoided adding a dark mode but after reading this think maybe I should consider it. I didn’t realize the possible extent of the difference, though it depends on the user’s display.

If you read the page source before reading the page copy, then this report on CSS usage might be of interest. This is an in-depth analysis of what CSS is used on the top 100,000 websites. There are some interesting numbers, for instance, for CSS size, in the 50th percentile sites have 309KB of CSS. Note, there is a navigator on right side of the page to see and jump between sections.

A look at the expanding features of CSS.

Here is an editorial on Smashing Magazine arguing that “pixel perfect” design goals no longer make sense and that instead the focus should be on design intent.

Oxymade was one of the add-on developers who created a CSS framework and pre-designed template kits for the original Classic Oxygen. And now that Oxygen 6 is nearing a 1.0 release, people are starting to wonder what add-ons might make sense for them. And I think that with Oxygen 6, people probably will want to use a CSS framework. Oxymade is one of the first options available for the new Oxygen 6.

This tutorial shows how to use core Gutenberg blocks to add some advanced design and styling effects. It would be especially useful for people who are not using a third party block collection, but would still like to enhance the content’s visual appeal.