Thinking about taking on a just-for-fun side project? You should. Ethan tells you how building High Fives, his latest hack project, helped him get out of his comfort zone and take some design and development risks.

• Inspiration

Building accessible websites can be super daunting. Ethan walks you through the WCAG standard and how to use it to put people first.

• Accessibility

Ethan talks about the benefits of using screencasts to communicate with your teammates.

• Version Control

Ethan walks you through HSL color notation, then gets funky with color functions.

• CSS Ampersand

How making video games made Ethan a better developer.

• Animation

Good comments make for good collaboration. Ethan talks about what makes CSS comments beautiful, and how you can up your commenting game to score more birthday cards.

• CSS

There's a whole lot of grid systems to choose from. Ethan talks about what kinds of grid systems are out there and whether or not you even need one in the first place.

• CSS

A post in which Ethan reassures you that gzip isn't scary, and reminds you to prove junk you say.

• Developer Tools

Writing all the markup and styles from the ground up for multiple brands wastes your time upfront and makes future changes even more cumbersome. Ethan has a Sassy solution to save your time and sanity.

• Sass

Limit gross refactoring tomorrow by picking class names that are less likely to change. Ethan shares three naming options to help cushion the blow of future design changes.

• BEM