Archive of: May, 2021

• 100 Days of Code - Week 13

  May 11, 2021

  Lots of posts about sliders (or carousels) this past week.

• Learning to build a better slider part four

  May 11, 2021

  The buttons now work to some degree, but I’m trying to sort out an odd issue with the previous button not working properly. The controls now show up only if JavaScript is enabled, which is pretty neat. I still have a bunch to do to finish this up. I may take a break from it for a couple of days and come back to it later.

• Learning to build a better slider part three

  May 10, 2021

  Didn’t get much further today after noticing that I goofed up on my JavaScript from yesterday. I think the lazy loading works properly now, but I’m still trying to troubleshoot an issue with the SVG within the img’s src. Gotta try again tomorrow.

• Learning to build a better slider part two

  May 9, 2021

  Today I’ve gotten through the process of converting the slides into flex objects, implementing a form of lazy loading for images, provided a no JavaScript fallback, and I’ve started working on adding buttons and their functionality. While typing out the scripts that Heydon provides, I noticed that he does not make use of semi-colons. This really threw me off for a bit, but it works just fine. I need to learn more about how essential they are. At the moment, I like using them because it helps me be certain that a line of JS has a finishing point. There’s always more to learn!

• Learning to build a better slider

  May 8, 2021

  Today I started working my way through the slider portion of Heydon Pickering’s book, Inclusive Components. It’s been a good read so far and I’m working through all of it by building a modified version of his example code as I go. I’ve had to double check things quite a bit because of his CSS selector usage (it’s good, I’m just not used to the combinations he uses). I’ll work on it more tomorrow, and by the time I’m done with this I’ll feel much better about the accessibility of the sliders/carousels I build in the future.

• 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…