Archive of: 2021

• Mocking up a sign up form

  May 7, 2021

  After learning more about accessibility, I’ve realized I need to revisit a lot of the common patterns I’d follow when building things with HTML and CSS. I think I’ll spend the remainder of this project learning more and practicing with a focus on making things as accessible as possible.

• We meet again slider

  May 6, 2021

  I used to swap product images, links, and more out of an e-commerce website’s slider/carousle multiple times a week. So I’m fairly familiar with how they normally work and are built. Almost all of them I’ve encountered had some JavaScript built-in to make them work, but today I built my first version mostly free of JavaScript. It’s really only used to switch it into and out of fullscreen mode. It also doesn’t change slides on its own. I think that’s alright, as this will probably not be used in such a way. It may not be too tough to add a bit to make it automatically change slides though. I also need to make sure I don’t bother displaying the fullscreen toggle button for browsers that don’t support it, or change how it works.

• Cursor styles reference

  May 5, 2021

  Today’s post is limited in terms of creativity, but I think it will be quite useful to me in the future. I even learned about a few cursor types I didn’t think I could display on a webpage.

• Learning About Regular Expressions

  May 4, 2021

  Regular expressions seemed a bit difficult in the past, but I think I have a better handle on them after doing a course on Treehouse about regular expressions in JavaScript. Form validation is the first thing that comes to mind, but there are lots of uses I’m not aware of yet.

• 100 Days of Code - Week 12

  May 3, 2021

  The past week’s posts were mostly tweaks/iterations and practice, but I spent some time learning more about a handy Flexbox solution…

• Quick Post Prototype

  May 3, 2021

  I wanted to give myself a 30 to 45 minute challenge today and see what I could come up with in terms of a layout for a post. It’s not particular good, but it really made me want some ramen. Unfortunately I can’t go out and get the good kind right now, so I’ll have to stick with a instant Cup Noodle style cup of ramen from Seiyu.

• Neat responsive flexbox layout

  May 2, 2021

  If you haven’t heard of Heydon Pickering, I certainly recommending checking out his website heydownworks.com, and learning all about the things he makes regarding web design and development. I watched a video of Heydon’s CSS Day 2019 talk about the Flexbox Holy Albatross and tried it out in this post. I’m still trying to full wrap my head around it (I feel like I could make a flexbox joke there), but it’s definitely going to be handy in the future.

• CSS Grid Fidget Toy

  May 1, 2021

  I started today’s post off trying to find a way to rotate a grid of divs and try to find a way to make some of those divs stand upright within the rotated grid. That was a bit too difficult, and may not possible in the way I was hoping. So I ended up making this. I’m not sure what it is, but I tried using some JavaScript from my lightbox in another way.

• Possible responsive table solution

  April 30, 2021

  The first thing that came to mind yesterday when thinking about how to approach making a table responsive was to provide two versions of the table within the HTML of the page, and then simply show the appropriate version at certain breakpoints. I’m not sure how this might affect the accessibility of the tables if both are included, but I believe this may be a possible solution.

• Table Practice

  April 29, 2021

  It has been quite some time since I worked with tables in HTML, so I thought I’d get some practice in today. I’ve never made use of the caption element and I did not know about the caption-side property in CSS either. It’s always nice to learn new things about older elements and how I can style them via CSS. Note to self: I need to learn more about making responsive tables.