Archive of: July, 2020

• Animating an HSLa background color

  July 21, 2020

  I ran into some trouble getting an animation that used HSL for a background color to work properly. After a bit of working with it, and with the help of an HSL color picker, I was able to sort out where I was goofing up.

• Place Items practice

  July 20, 2020

  Andy Bell shared info about the place-item property in a tweet recently. I had never heard of it, but it is quite handy and wanted to try it out. I wish I had better content within the example, but this should help me remember to use it.

• Clip Path Animation Practice

  July 19, 2020

  Today I've made an animation using the clip-path property. It's a bit tricky to figure out how adjusting the polygon will alter the shape during the animation. I would think a tool like Sketch, Figma, of maybe Adobe XD would be able to give me a way to see how the polygon will change throughout the animation.

• Clip Path Practice

  July 18, 2020

  I've worked with clip-path and I'm always happy when I get to practice with it more. I often work with Bennett Feely's Clippy, CSS clip-path maker, while working with custom shapes. It's a great tool.

• Skew Transform Practice

  July 17, 2020

  Playing around with a simple skew transform today. Not particularly difficult or deep in any way. Tonight's was a quickie.

• Practicing with the Resize property

  July 16, 2020

  Having spent very little time working with the resize property, I thought I'd give it a try. A lot of these tend to be me just trying new things out. I think that's alright. I'll do bigger and better things at a different time.

• Animated Border Practice

  July 15, 2020

  Worked on animating borders today. Lots more to learn about and tweak before I get something I like, but it was good practice.

• Border Image Practice

  July 14, 2020

  Trying out image-border for the first time. I have a lot to learn about it.

• Wii Menu Part 2

  July 13, 2020

  I'm working a bit more on the Wii menu today. I've styled a few things and practiced using object-fit to see if it will be useful in the menu. I have a feeling background-images may be a better solution overall, but I'll find out later.

• Wii Menu Part One

  July 12, 2020

  I'm going to take a shot at recreating the Wii menu using CSS, SVG, and HTML. I'm hoping I can do it without using any JavaScript, but I'll see further down the road. Can't do a lot with it today, so I'm just doing a bit to get things started.